http://sicfit.com/rss/recent-speakers en-us Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:07:05 GMT Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:07:05 GMT http://sicfit.com/speaker/3554-Alan-Belcher Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:13:31 CDT http://sicfit.com/speaker/3554-Alan-Belcher http://sicfit.com/speaker/1206-Andrew-Wheating Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:19:51 CDT http://sicfit.com/speaker/1206-Andrew-Wheating http://sicfit.com/speaker/2029-Ben-Askren
Ben over the last two years of his college career was flawless. His first two years were not half bad either, each time going losing in the finals of the NCAA tournament. Ben Askren will mostly be remembered for the entertaining fashion he wrestled his matches. He always had fun and always put on a show for the fans.

In 2008 he won the U.S. Nationals and Olympic trials and competed in the Bejing games. Since then he has continued on as an volunteer wrestling coach and has begun training mma at American Top Team in Columbia, MO. His first fight is likely to be in early 2009.]]> Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:48:37 CDT http://sicfit.com/speaker/2029-Ben-Askren http://sicfit.com/speaker/6613-Ben-Smith Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:32:14 CST SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/6613-Ben-Smith http://sicfit.com/speaker/6621-Blair-Morrison Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:52:55 CST SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/6621-Blair-Morrison http://sicfit.com/speaker/7970-Brian-MacKenzie Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:12:00 CDT http://sicfit.com/speaker/7970-Brian-MacKenzie http://sicfit.com/speaker/5761-Carey-Kepler Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:15:55 CST SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/5761-Carey-Kepler http://sicfit.com/speaker/1476-Chael-Sonnen Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:12:49 CDT http://sicfit.com/speaker/1476-Chael-Sonnen http://sicfit.com/speaker/7059-Charlie-Gerszewski Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:27:19 CDT SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/7059-Charlie-Gerszewski http://sicfit.com/speaker/7060-Chase-Ingraham Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:37:09 CDT SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/7060-Chase-Ingraham http://sicfit.com/speaker/1431-Chuck-Liddell Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:16:23 CDT http://sicfit.com/speaker/1431-Chuck-Liddell http://sicfit.com/speaker/6589-CrossFit-Women Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:20:01 CST SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/6589-CrossFit-Women http://sicfit.com/speaker/6755-Crystal-McReynolds Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:25:10 CST SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/6755-Crystal-McReynolds http://sicfit.com/speaker/8505-Dallen-Stanford Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:17:46 CDT http://sicfit.com/speaker/8505-Dallen-Stanford http://sicfit.com/speaker/8209-Deric-Maruquin
Warrior CrossFit Mabry & CrossFit Cedar Park

Certifications:

CrossFit Level 1 and Oly-Lifting

I grew up in a military family with roots in Iowa and Hawaii. My family settled in Schertz, TX where I graduated high school from Samuel Clemens in 1999. I played soccer and tennis and I ran for the Cross Country team and the 800m in track. I attended the US Air Force Academy (USAFA) from 1999-2000. I played NCAA soccer in my first year of attendance at USAFA which is where my strength and conditioning foundation began. I left USAFA in DEC 2000 and continued my education at The University of Texas at Austin, but ultimately earned a B.S. in Chemistry from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in 2004. After graduating I worked as a Production and R&D Chemist for PhotoProtective Technologies, I enlisted in the Texas Army National Guard in early 2005.

In the Spring of 2003, while at UTSA, I tore my left knee ACL and had a 2 year road to recovery. During this time I gained weight reaching 198 lbs at only 5’3” with little fitness abilities. I was committed to a pursuit of becoming physically fit once again when I joined the Army in 2005. After modest gains in fitness thru March 2006 I discovered CrossFit. CrossFit took me to the next level and beyond. I later completed US Army Ranger School and multiple other US Army courses considered to be physically demanding. Upon my return from a deployment to Iraq in 2007-2008, I was called by the Texas Army National Guard Headquarters to help set up a military affiliate at Camp Mabry to train and program for 30-40 Soldiers daily along with assist in the logistical procurement of CrossFit equipment. It is a robust program that is now being used as a model to start up additional satellite military affiliates across the state. It has truly been an honor to be a part of providing the best fitness service, CrossFit, to fellow Soldiers and State employees to better serve our State and Country. CrossFit is my means, to better serve my passion as a Soldier in the Texas Army National Guard. ]]> Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:21:34 CDT http://sicfit.com/speaker/8209-Deric-Maruquin http://sicfit.com/speaker/7110-Dr-Dean-Xu Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:57:30 CDT SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/7110-Dr-Dean-Xu http://sicfit.com/speaker/5771-Dutch-Lowy Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:05:04 CST SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/5771-Dutch-Lowy http://sicfit.com/speaker/8506-Erwan-Le-Corre
At a very young age, Erwan’s father would often take him outdoors to run and crawl, climb and jump. That’s when his passion for natural movement started. Apart from judo, he did not have any other formal physical education other than freely exploring his environment until he turned 15.

At age 15, Erwan is introduced to karate which very soon becomes a great passion and teaches him the virtues of discipline, method and commitment. He soon competes and succeeds at national level in France and gets his black belt at age 18, only to realize that it was a too limited approach that did not fulfill his great thirst for body/mind self-knowledge and self-growth.

At age 19, Erwan is introduced to a philosophy of natural movement and lifestyle called “Combat Vital” while living in Paris. For 7 years he trains in natural or urban settings – day or night. Climbing bridges, balancing on heights, jumping from roof to roof, walking on all fours in the underground, swimming in cold waters, breath training and fighting techniques.

At age 27, Erwan decides to follow his own path. This period includes mainly sailing, Olympic weightlifting, rock climbing, long distance triathlon, trail running and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. While understanding the benefits of every field he explores, he also recognizes the issues sport specialists have to deal with. These experiences confirm his intuition that a broader approach is more beneficial to everyday life and is more fun as well as healthier.

At age 33, he discovers the history of Georges Hebert and Methode Naturelle® which fascinates him and in which he finds many similarities with his own approach and past experience. From then, Erwan researches everything about Hebert and Methode Naturelle®, unearthing photos and newspaper archives and extensively studying the old, dusty French Methode Naturelle books. Erwan decides to fully dedicate his training to natural movement again, while starting to train others.

After studying every detail of its history and the reasons why the practice of Methode Naturelle® declined to almost total extinction and failed to propagate itself into the modern era, Erwan understands that the best way to revive the practice is to improve and update the coaching system as well as providing an overall approach that better fits the people of today’s world with today’s concerns and expectations.

In 2008, while living, training and coaching in Brazil, he works on improving and renovating the old training method, leading to the creation of the Natural Movement Coaching System®. At the same time, he defines his approach called “True Nature”, which states that it is our universal birthright to be strong, healthy, happy and free. MovNat is born.

In 2009, Erwan is featured in Men’s Health USA in an inspiring article about him and MovNat written by Christopher McDougall in which the journalist describes his transformative first-hand training experience with Erwan in Brazil.

He now lives in the USA.

Present and future

Erwan is working on several projects, including instructional DVDs, a book, the opening an indoors-outdoors facility to train people from around the world as well as certifying the future MovNat coaches, starting 2011. A new movement of natural movement is born!
]]> Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:39:25 CDT http://sicfit.com/speaker/8506-Erwan-Le-Corre http://sicfit.com/speaker/4398-Frank-Shamrock Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:42:54 CDT http://sicfit.com/speaker/4398-Frank-Shamrock http://sicfit.com/speaker/4018-Frankie-Edgar He is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu purple belt. In 2010 he shocked the mma world when he beat longtime UFC lightweight Champ BJ Penn and earned the title.]]> Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:33:35 CDT Martin Floreani http://sicfit.com/speaker/4018-Frankie-Edgar http://sicfit.com/speaker/5769-Greg-Everrett Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:58:21 CST SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/5769-Greg-Everrett http://sicfit.com/speaker/8283-Guy-Mezger Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:40:52 CDT http://sicfit.com/speaker/8283-Guy-Mezger http://sicfit.com/speaker/5766-James-Fitzgerald Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:44:48 CST SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/5766-James-Fitzgerald http://sicfit.com/speaker/6807-Jason-Khalipa Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:44:31 CST SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/6807-Jason-Khalipa http://sicfit.com/speaker/8033-Jen-Cardella Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:23:27 CDT SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/8033-Jen-Cardella http://sicfit.com/speaker/5772-Jeremy-Thiel Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:07:16 CST SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/5772-Jeremy-Thiel http://sicfit.com/speaker/7929-Jessica-Sharratt Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:07:50 CDT SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/7929-Jessica-Sharratt http://sicfit.com/speaker/6770-Jim-Bathurst
While studying at the University of Maryland, Jim joined the exhibitional gymnastics group, Gymkana, which performs both traditional and non-traditional gymnastics for local area schools with the message of drug-free, healthy living. He has since focused that love of gymnastics into a personal Web site dealing with bodyweight strength - www.BeastSkills.com. The site has been very well received by the strength community and logs tens of thousands of visitors each month from around the world.

As a trainer, Jim has been featured in the Washington Express for his bi-weekly strength training class. He has also won the Grand Prize in Men's Health Magazine "How Fit Are You?" contest not once, but twice in a row. He also managed to complete a long-standing Crossfit Challenge of 15 consecutive handstand pushups on a set of gymnastics rings (video here). He has been interviewed several times, including one that appears in the "Handbalancing Mastery Course" which is sold at the Lost Art of Handbalancing.
Jim is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) with the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). The CSCS certification is one of the most respected in the industry.]]> Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:49:04 CST SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/6770-Jim-Bathurst http://sicfit.com/speaker/4328-Joey-Warren Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:58:21 CDT SICFIT Moderator http://sicfit.com/speaker/4328-Joey-Warren http://sicfit.com/speaker/7461-Jud-Dean I then attended the United States Coast Guard Academy and played football for 3 years before transferring to the University of Delaware and getting my B.S. in Nutrition and Dietetics. While in college I ran a program called Teen Fitness Advantage which was a fitness program for 6th 7th and 8th graders. When I learned how to capture and keep the attention of middle school age kids; I knew I could teach anyone how to exercise. While lifeguarding in Bethany Beach, I started training with a friend preparing to leave for training as a Navy Seal. I trained with him for two years in Annapolis, Maryland along with another Ex Navy Seal, Stew Smith. With Stew I learned the benefits of military style fitness and enhanced even more my ability to understand that it is not the body that limits us but the mind. After graduation, from University of Delaware, I started working as the head trainer and nutrition counselor for Fusion Fitness Center in Newark Delaware. I have been working there for 3 1/2 years. While there, my client base has varied from 14 year olds to 73 year olds. I am the program director for our Fusion F.I.T. camps which are weekend boot camp style workouts which take place at the local parks. I am certified as a personal trainer, a lifestyle and fitness coach, an Alpha Male Master Trainer, a CrossFit Olympic Lifting Coach, and a CrossFit coach.
I have worked with multiple fitness magazines and also worked on two fitness books. The Swat Workout by Stew Smith and The Alpha Male Challenge by James Villepigue and Rick Collins which is published by Men's Health
Some things that I enjoy doing outside of the gym are: Long board surfing, Swimming, Hunting, golfing, volleyball, cooking, and training/playing with my boxer Diesel.
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