Peter Shmock

[2] Without employment, they were struggling to pay the bills, and Shmock was frustrated by the "poor coaching, inadequate facilities, and financial insecurity" faced by athletes once they left college.

[2] At March 1979's USSR-USA Track Meet in Fort Worth, Texas, Shmock threw 65-10 to place second, between the USSR's first-place Vladimir Kiselyov and third-place Aleksandr Baryshnikov.

[3][22] Shmock was considered the top U.S. shot putter, though there was speculation that some "likely medal winners ... skipped the trials" or stopped training as intensely once the boycott was made official.

[33][34] Even though he rubbed elbows with Ken Griffey Jr., Lou Piniella, and other baseball elites, Shmock made time to teach classes to ordinary Seattleites.

"[8] He spoke about "training that 'went inside,'" needing to "relax to allow things to happen", and "the mind-body relationship", but dispelled any New Age connotations, saying, "I'm not interested in being anyone's guru.

"[8][9] As a result of the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, the Seattle Mariners cut 17 staff members including Peter Shmock on September 24, 1994.

[36] Shmock was training advisor for the Seattle Reign in 1997, and he continued working with Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers and teaching classes at Woodland Park and at Sound Mind & Body.

[26] In 1998, The Seattle Times listed Peter Shmock as one of the city's top fitness experts and quoted him saying, in his typical mellow style, "I just do a smattering of things that make the most sense for my energy.

[10] Located at Fifth Avenue and Bell Street in the Belltown section of Seattle's Denny Regrade neighborhood, ZUM originally occupied a "1930s-era brick" building, "formerly the longtime home to .

"[10][39] ZUM rented the space from Clise Properties under an 18-year lease agreement, and Shmock worked with Rocky Rochon Design and BjarkoSerra Architects to build out $643,000 of tenant improvements.

"[39] Standing to lose his nearly $900,000 investment in tenant improvements, founder Peter Shmock hired attorney Bruce P. Babbitt and began litigation.

[44][45] Meanwhile, Peter Shmock continued to earn praise and press for his fitness programs incorporating "active rest", focusing on rotational "movements you use in real life", centering on balance, and "paying attention to the cycles and the rhythms of energy.

"[43] A March 2005 article highlighting Shmock's work with Mariners catcher Dan Wilson was picked up from The Seattle Times by a wire service and republished by a newspaper in Passaic County, N.J.[46][47] In a November Times article republished in Bradenton, Florida; Kansas City, Kansas; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; and Columbia, South Carolina; Shmock urged readers to "progressively warm up" and reminded them, "There's no rule that says once you start you can't stop, and if you do, you've failed.

In 2006 he was still associated with the Elite Edge off-season program for skiers, and he taught a free bicycle workout class at Seattle REI with Ken Williams.

[8][54][55] "'Less about performance and more about vitality,'" Shmock continued to add services at ZUM, and by 2007 the Seattle health club hired Colleen Casey as massage director.

'"[57] Asked about his "personal philosophy of movement" in 2010, Shmock replied, "I want people to pay attention to their bodies, to observe their cycles of energy so they don't push too hard.