Is Cold Water Immersion Beneficial for Performance Recovery?

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Benefits of Cold Water Immersion

Cold Water Immersion

Cold Water Immersion (CWI) or ice baths is typically used amongst athletes (in the US) to help deal with pain and preparation for the next practice. However, it’s been getting a lot of attention amongst the general population (in the US) to mimic potential “restorative” results.

Protocols:

There are MANY protocols people use, different temperatures for different length of time, added with contrast baths etc… The CWI protocols may have different results for each person based on skin fold thickness, muscular density, threshold to stay in X temperature etc…

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Simple Truth to Succeed in Your New Years Resolution

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New York City Personal Training

Every new years there’s a surge in gyms and people hiring personal trainers to help them with weight-loss, strength training, or whatever fitness goal. This also brings out the snake oil salesman and sleazy fitness gyms pumping in LOTS of money into [Read more…]

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Prenatal Training: Tips for Exercising While Pregnant

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Prenatal Training NYC Personal Trainer

There are numerous benefits to exercising while pregnant such as limiting the length of hospitalization, incidence of cesarean section, and the Apgar scores (1). While every pregnancy is subjective, through our experience resistance training can help minimize prenatal complications, ease of labor, and faster postpartum recovery. Despite pop culture pushing yoga and running, there are other exercise options like resistance training, which has been proven very beneficial and not harmful for prenatal trainees. [Read more…]

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The Keys to Train at a High Level

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Manhattan Sports Performance Training

If you want to perform at a high level, then you have to accept that there will be sacrifices. I’m not talking about baby sacrifices, like not going out to dinner a few times week but sacrifices that may not always be ”fun”. There seems to be a big disconnect that training, dieting, and practice is about what works for you on your schedule and that it’s always comfortable. While this mentality is completely fine for the everyday person, however if you truly want to go to the next level [Read more…]

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Mobility Travel Fitness Guide

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Mobility Travel Fitness Guide

Being a personal trainer in NYC, I’m used to traveling short distances all around Manhattan but currently I’m writing on a train from Milan to Rome. I don’t normally get to travel long distances so this was my first “red eye” [Read more…]

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How to Succeed as a Coach

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How to Succeed as a Coach

Learn from one of my biggest mistakes and I’m sure you’ll be much further along as a coach or personal trainer.

To succeed as a sports performance coach or personal trainer is beyond your fitness knowledge, programming skills, and acute “coaching eye“. It’s about getting “buy in” from your personal training client and athletes.

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