Athlete: Chris Duffin

WATCH: Investigating ‘The Reset System’

I recently had the opportunity to spend some time with Shawn Sherman and Jonathan Loos of The Reset System. They visited our facility over the course of a couple days and used their method on a number of our athletes. We were able to see some immediate results in a number of them as well as observe them diagnose known issues (unknown to them) with several of them in a very quick fashion.

RESET is a revolutionary restorative movement system that pinpoints and eliminates the joint dysfunctions that cause us to compensate with our posture and movement. Over the course of our lives, stress causes our bodies to acquire joint dysfunctions which, in turn, causes us to compensate. In order to reap the full benefits of physical activity we need flawless posture and movement. RESET removes the flaws and restores natural posture and movement.

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Their system is fairly new and doesn’t not have a significant grounds of evidence from studies to support it but seems to be working very well on clients it is administered to. I did voice some of my concerns in the interview I did with them around the lack of empowerment from the client perspective, as it is required that the practice be ‘administered’. However, if someone finds it useful, it can be very complementary to the empowered type of approach we promote with the Kabuki Movement Systems.

As noted, we did see results consistently delivered on our athletes and staff and there are a number of athletes and strength and conditioning coaches seeing benefit and promoting these methods.

Below is my interview with Shawn and Jonathon that I think you will really enjoy. We had a wonderful time talking shop during their visit.

Shawn Sherman holds a degree in Exercise and Sport Science from Penn State University and operates a private fitness studio in Western Springs, Illinois. He is the developer of the RESET system. He has held numerous industry certifications (NSCA, ACE, MATTM). Utilizing his unique RESET system, Shawn has consulted with hundreds of elite athletes from many organizations, including the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Blackhawks, US and Canadian Olympians and over a dozen universities including the University of Minnesota and Purdue University.

Jonathan Loos, PT, DPT, MS, CSCS is a Physical Therapist and the Director of Education for the RESET system. He has been a Clinical Instructor for both the National Personal Training Institute (Lisle, IL) and the University of Illinois - Chicago. Additionally, he has served as a movement optimization consultant to the Chicago Cubs and the Milwaukee Admirals (AHL).

Destroying the Paradigm of what makes a “Functional Bench Press” - Presentation at UWS

This last week I presented at University of Western States Chiropractic College on the topic of the bench press. I often get questions from the clinical community about the bench press as the deadlift and squat are discussed quite frequently as functional and corrective movement patterns. But the bench press is the dirty little step child that never gets covered in these environment making it the most asked question from this community. If it is covered the postural correct flat back or “sternal crunch” bench press is considered the most functional and preferred pattern.

Yet the question always remains… Why can you bench more with an arch then? Correct patterns on the squat and deadlift help you lift more but the bench does not. Additionally its easy to observe more shoulder more deviation and control of shoulder centration/position with the flat back bench than an arched bench. Often times people with lack of control of shoulder position can be corrected almost immediately by placing them into an arch. This is counter to what one would expect if your moving FROM a correct/functional position to an incorrect.

In this piece I address all of these issues. I also spent time with my team afterwards teaching the critical cueing needed to maximize the arched bench press for both performance and injury prevention. These include addressing:

- How to achieve proper shoulder centration
- Even extension through the lumbar spine and maximizing Thoracic Extension
- Proper Intra Abdominal Pressurization (IAP)
- Actively engaging the gluteus
- How to root the feet to floor properly and integrate leg drive

February 25, 2016 Dieting Down and Prep for Photo Shoot

Well after the dieting to get into range of making the 220 class this last meet I’ve decided to just keep rolling with it. Its been a year since I’ve done a photo shoot for marketing of my products and services and the images are getting a little to recycled.

Since I was already down quite a bit the dieting has essentially been consisting of carb depletion workouts. So I have not been tracking exactly what I’ve been doing as its just high rep volume work in place of doing low intensity cardio which i hate.

In these last two weeks I’m down around 1800kcal a day to pull the last bit of fat off. My estrogen levels have been very high following this last meet so removing the lower abdominal fat has been a struggle and probably won’t get it all off. At the moment I’m on a full keto diet which I do not prefer for performance reasons. But its prep work for getting the muscles to refill when I carb load for the shoot and keep the water off.

Training 6 days a week basically following a 3 day repeating pattern.

Day 1 - Legs and related
Day 2 - Back
Day 3 - Pressing
Day 4 - Legs and related
Day 5 - Back
Day 6 - Pressing

arms are mixed in daily or every other day.

Here are some shots of what I’m looking like right now. I’m very flat and depleted so I look far from great. but confident that will turn around when I pull the water off and fill the muscles back out.

Crazy week of Photo Shoot, Travel, and working the Arnold - SHOOT IMAGES INCLUDED

Well this last week was an incredibly challenging week. I finished off my cut and did a photo shoot on Tuesday followed immediately by flying out to the Arnold on Wednesday. What made this challenging is the fact I was incredibly sick all week so the travel, lack of sleep, and long NON-STOP days at the Arnold killed me. However I couldn’t have had a better week honestly. It was an incredible time meeting and interacting with fans, customers, and friends I don’t see very often. Dave allowed me and my team into the compound to get some training in as well so big thanks to him and EliteFTS.

For this photo shoot my goal was to come in much more filled out than the last one. The one I did last year I got quite lean for but my face was so drawn I was not that recognizable. So we were unable to use a lot of the images for marketing material because I didn’t look like me or looked scary. This time I started the carb up early and hit it pretty hard after the 2 week carb depletion I did running into the shoot. While this did result in a lot more spillover and soft loping appearance of he abdominal area than I would have liked to have seen I’m quite pleased wight the results. Got some great images and I look like myself. And considering this is only the second time I have done this with very little experience to pull from I’m pleased.

While I didn’t use anyone to manage my actual prep plan this time because I wasn’t going for that absolutely shredded look I do owe thanks to people that I have leaned on for either diet or prep advice. Big thanks to

Amit Sapir
Paul Carter
Tony Montgomery

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WATCH: Investigating ‘The Reset System’

Destroying the Paradigm of what makes a “Functional Bench Press” - Presentation at UWS

February 25, 2016 Dieting Down and Prep for Photo Shoot

Crazy week of Photo Shoot, Travel, and working the Arnold - SHOOT IMAGES INCLUDED