NYC personal trainers and sports performance coaches use the “Box Jump” as a tool to help with power. The box can be a very useful tool that’ll force the athlete to get X height and generate a specific amount of force. The problem I’ve come across is that the “Box Jump” is now being abused, you’ll see guys landing in an awkward position
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NYC Personal Trainer Must Have’s -“Stay Dry Edition”
Most personal trainers and/or sports performance coaches in NYC travel all around Manhattan. This is pretty typical for not only the fitness professionals but pretty much all New Yorkers.
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Ultimate Key to Your Diet Success
Being a personal trainer in NYC and the summer right at our door steps, I’m often asked “what’s the perfect diet I should be on” or “how do get [Read more…]
Muscle Confusion, Confusion?
The term “Muscle Confusion” has been popularized by the P90x people as a great way to market themselves. They’ve done a great job at it too, pretty much everyone knows what P90X is… Unfortunately this is the fitness field and that means a lot of false promises and hype marketing. These tactics leave professional like myself and other nyc personal [Read more…]
Sports Performance Training Fallacies P2
In our first posting on “Sports Performance Training Fallacies” we discussed how, what worked for one will NOT always work for another. Programming for an athlete is all subjective to the athletes strengths, weakness, past history, and development. To add to this we need to understand translation of skills to their specific sport and position.
Weightlifting is BAD for You
Walk around NYC and you’ll see many people jogging around the many amazing parks Manhattan has to offer. In our society, jogging is considered healthy but Weightlifting still has this ‘Dark’ [Read more…]