Renegade Training: John Davies: Xvest Training Part 2




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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.

XVEST TRAINING, PART II

With a firm understanding of the concepts of our training firmly in place and the realization that true all-around athletic development will come via adherence to the “wheel of conditioning” it is definitely time to get to some real-world work with the Xvest.

First though, I need to quickly to point out one of the typical errors with weighted vest training is the simple, almost pedestrian use of it as a merely resistance with isolation movements (i.e. dips, chins). That is a grave error as it can and should be in used in many facets of training, from compound explosive lifts, to General Physical Preparation.

Within training circles, it is quite common to be asked, what is the “one thing” that should be done in training. And as I am so known to say “the one thing is the whole thing”, emphasizing that there are no short-cuts and no “one thing” that will perfect your training. Yet at the risk of sounding to bold, with complete adherence to our “training concepts” and “the wheel”, the use of the Xvest is quite possibly the most powerful tool in exercise training not merely for work within the gym but external use in passive daily wearing.

That is a decided “key” to training with the Xvest; the product can be used throughout your day in any setting with tremendous benefits. When employing the Xvest, the first step in our work is to wear it in our daily activities that you normally encounter. Starting slowly with roughly 5% of bodyweight for a few hours a day. While it may seem like a small amount, it will impact upon you and you need to gradually build up tolerance but also be careful not to disrupt correct biomechanics – remember at all time’s picture-perfect posture (re “concepts”) must be maintained. Quickly the weight will build and the vest will be worn throughout the entire waking day, including training. This has been shown to have dramatic impact on force development within weeks of starting this training. Extensive research, notably performed by C. Bosco in the mid 1980’s laid the groundwork of what he termed as a “hypergravity” training period and its impact is nothing short of startling. With common adaptation (considered at the neurogenic level) we gradually, over a period of months, build up to wearing up to 10-20% of bodyweight and the training effect has continued to improve.

In our next installment, we’ll take a look at application within training day environments.