John Davies
Founder, Renegade Training International
The industry vanguard,
John Davies is the founder and creator of the Renegade concept
of fitness, sport and life
force coaching based upon his incredibly diverse background in
business consulting, athletic coaching and artistic endeavors
in various mediums. He is a well-known advocate of ethical practices
in sport and lives a voracious life surfing, skateboarding and
snowboarding around the world, defying age against those half
his age. Additionally he has served as consultant behind-the-scenes
in every level of sport from professional teams, to over 50 top
NCAA institutions and hundreds of high school programs not only
across the country but worldwide. Throughout the country’s
Football community, the Renegade system is seen as and is the
most influential training methodology as it is continues to produce
unstoppable forces.
Mr. Davies is in the author
of four highly regarded books ("Renegade
Training for Football," "Xtreme Sports Training ~ Renegade
Style," "R Factor for Golf" and "The Mark
of R; Part II - The Rebirth of Honor") and over 600 articles
ranging in varied topics such sport training, his love of skate
and surf culture, dark noir, inspirational choices in life, dwindling
corporate ethics, the slide of the health system in America and
fund management. Many of his more thought provoking artistic
voyages appear exclusively at renegadestyle.com, which is scheduled
to gallery his artistic collection in 2006-2007.
The winter of 2005 will
see the release of his next book, tentatively titled "She," an in-depth look at the destruction of
body image, pornification and the abandonment of respect towards
women in our culture. The following year, the anxiously awaited "Destined
- The Renegade Chronicles" is planned to be released. Additionally
he has appeared in nationally syndicated radio shows, over twenty
major DVD productions and is the most sought after writer and
spokesperson in the health and fitness industry. In the winter
of 2004, the re-tooled R-Style apparel of young women's and men's
clothing line emerged under his design eye and quickly became
an underground success.
In the fall of 2004, he
launch the Renegade Certification Program for fitness, health
and business professionals
to teach the "R" philosophies,
and to use one of the company’s mottos "make a difference." Quickly
this program has grown by leaps and bounds and like all Renegade
systems is a defiant success. This summer/fall of 2005 he has
turned his attention to developing the first dedicated Renegade
personal and executive training services located in New York.
These services will provide individual and customized training
and coaching services for discretionary business leaders with
focus on personal health, team management, motivation, diet management,
and a wellness regime that will not only fuel continued career
success but life enrichment.
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SAND TRAINING
Staring out the window, past my reflection, the waves
are breaking perfectly just a bit before dawn. With the morning coffee
brewing, I lay down a fresh coat of wax on my board and get ready to
take the day on, one wave at a time.
Right now as you read this, “this” will make no sense at
all to you. Right now, it will seem confusing if not erroneous to what
you commonly read and accepted in sheep-like manners. Yet that being
said, right now this article’s commentary isn’t intended
to make immediate sense to you. That would be impossible really and so
it’s really intended as a “seed,” that will grow and
implode at a later date when you realize that the entire fitness and
exercise game isn’t merely a hypocrisy but a empty fraud played
out by master marionettes of industry.
This broad based game of fitness, health and
wellness has long since entered an abyss of lies where not only information
on exercise, diet,
supplementation is misleading but it is geared towards pimping the
emaciated or well-pumped image of this era as “healthy, fit and desirable” mannequins,
which in turn fuels the industry continued growth. Ignoring the obvious
error of this era as planting these ridiculous images as desirable,
that supplementation is the crux of a healthy diet as the fitness bird-cage-liners
want you to believe or that fitness is found in these ridiculous machine-filled
chrome palaces, the public pays the ultimate cost and never finds the
healthy active balance that was once was prevalent in our society.
The real truth is that virtually every crevice
of this industry is bought and sold without conscience, works hard
for the all-mighty dollar
it worships and continually weaves a web that keeps the machine going.
Truth long since “left the building” or this little thing
called the runaway obesity problem in this nation would be a whole lot
easier to solve. The solution though is too much, far too much for you
too handle right now though as you’re fixated on the pretty images
of the well-shaved ab-etched male as attractive, the bloated steroid
junkie as “tough” or the starved and surgically enhanced
woman/ swan as desirable. The truth…you couldn’t handle it
right now but one day, like that ol’ runaway freight train a barrellin’ around
the corner, the truth will finally make some sense to you.
Fitness, health, diet was meant to add “value” to your
life. To help you enjoy the incredible opportunities we have in our era
and not leave you in the mad obsessive spiral to attain the “perfect” image
you are sold by the well financed ad agencies. But again that’s
too much for you right now and you’re just about ready to go do “biceps
and calves” and I’ve got a day to take on.
Paddling out for dawn patrol at my favorite spot
there is just the regular group in the cool spring waters who take
refuge in the early morning
experience with nature and the adrenaline rush of charging morning surf.
The morning crew is a hodge-podge of varying ages from teens before school
or those just before work but each with the ethos of enjoying an active
and healthy thirst for life. An hour flows by of paddling hard through
the surf, some fine waves, some not-so fine and of course the one lasting
moment that calls you back but it’s time to make my way back to
shore. Rinsing off quickly in a not-so cold beach front shower, walkers,
joggers, cyclists go by and nod a friendly hello. I fuel up once again
with some coffee, walk past a gym with its treadmill lined windows and
watch the drones, watch me, watching them letting life go by. But no
time to linger; it’s time to head back to the sand for a hard-core
training session.
Editor’s note: Part two of Sand Training coming soon: the plan,
the protocols to be healthy, fit and virile forever but remember…you’re
not ready for this. |
