Renegade Training: John Davies: Soft




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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.

SOFT

Soft is often defined as “yielding to physical pressure”; but “soft” is what this entire exercise genre has become. A strong echo of a society that has become too soft to understand honor, too soft to show integrity, too soft to turn a blind eye to transgression and finally too soft to actually work hard to get what they want. The softening of the iron game has become a pathetic wasteland where self-proclaimed gurus cut and paste their scientific research and ignore real-world evidence to suit their myopic vision of what constitutes fitness, health and better yet, “strength.”

“Strength” like “soft” has become an odd term. Where once stood a group of physically and spiritually powerful men who worked and played hard, is now a weak-ass group that embarrasses me to be clumped in. The term “Coach,” which once stood for so much to me, has now been devalued and is now just a marketing term that is tossed around by every little wannabe poser with a shopping cart and a few sku’s to whore.

As I look at the iron-game, the exercise industry and the role of the middle-aged male, I realize a number the things. First, some of the best minds in the business are silent to the public and unknown. Coaches, no, I won’t use that to refer to brilliant leaders who actually possess experience and substance, and stay in the shadows while the cut and paste experts keep rolling on. Marketing has become the agenda…it’s a McLuhan reality biting back…“the medium is message”… and in today’s fitness client, the message leads straight into a merchant banking system without an ounce of integrity. And finally ... the history of the rich iron game appears to have been forgotten. “Hard work” is replaced with being careful … not to exert too much or take too much risk. But that’s all beside the point because today, I am neither a coach or whatever, just one hungry SOB to ready take on life head on.

So putting aside all the little chit-chat, work is the elixir in a well fortified concoction to build success. And with a now emancipated ankle from cast it was time to get to it and borrowing upon the recently released “Mark of R”… it’s time to challenge both ankle and shoulder with a good training session. After dynamic warm-up, I moved to the first of the weighted sections—the KB snatch.

-excerpt from “Mark of R”

The Kettlebell Snatch with Xvest

The Kettlebell Snatch taken to the next level with the added stimuli provided by wearing a loaded Xvest. By performing properly you are perfectly adhering to the “Renegade Concepts of Training” where movement is trained and harmony of movement is stressed….

In this situation the KB snatch is executed but while wearing a fully loaded Xvest. By doing such the loading stresses proper movement of the hips and torso and thus the training effect has leapt considerably simply because of wearing an Xvest which is why the Xvest is simply irreplaceable to an athlete.