Archives for 2013

Do You Have What It Takes?

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nyc personal training

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We live in a fast paced world where people expect immediate fixes EASILY…unfortunately this mentality is all too common in the fitness industry. It also doesn’t help that the media is always pushing out BS articles that “deliver” faster results with less work…Oy vey  [Read more…]

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When you should run for the exit

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Sports Performance Training New York City

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We’ve discussed this before, how the Personal Training field is completely unregulated. This clearly will attract EXTREMELY unqualified “trainers” to jump into the field and thus we have high level trainers and really REALLY low level personal trainers. Because of this I’m often asked, “Is XYZ safe for me to do, my personal trainer has me do it”. So I thought it’ll be a great posting to discuss when you should run for the exits!  [Read more…]

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Battling The Cold Weather

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Personal Training in NYC

Photo from Flikr-Dave Kilman

This week is apparently supposed to be one of the coldest weeks of the Winter here in New York City! If you have to travel all around the city like many personal trainers in NYC do, it’s not fun…that wind gust at 5 am is BRUTAL!

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The “I Know…” Guy

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NYC Personal Trainer

With YouTube, internet articles, journals, videos, etc… we have a TON of information at our disposal. Pretty much anything you want to look up you can find on the internet from surgery to how to squat…now that doesn’t mean it’s all correct.

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3 BASIC Industry Personal Training Tips Part 1

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Sports Performance Training NYC

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This post isn’t about fitness tips or about how trainers need to fully educate themselves, go to seminars, do site visits or what have you. It’s also not about [Read more…]

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Commercial Gym Salesman Errr, I Mean Personal Trainers

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I’ve been pretty disappointed with the fitness field and it’s influx of unqualified sketchy Personal Trainers that are also Actor/Models/Dancers/ or insert anything else thats contract based…

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