Being an personal trainer in New York City, I travel all around Manhattan training in-home, private training gyms and so on. This means I’m constantly taking off and on my headphones. While this may not seem like [Read more…]
Archives for August 2014
Working Out vs. Training
Being in the fitness field since 2002- this means actually working as a coach not training myself and buddies- there has been a common constant. When people exercise they feel the need to CRUSH themselves, otherwise they believe there is no benefit to it. This is the difference between working out and training. For me working out is just getting in some type of exercise session without a goal in mind- basically burning calories. While training is a structured program to help you achieve your goal in the most efficient [Read more…]
Developing the Young Athlete
When I helped build a sports performance gym in Long Island, our focus was to work with athletes of all levels-we worked with 8 year old kids to professional athletes. This was the first time that I would be working with youth kids and non-collegiate athletes, my prior background was working as strength and conditioning coach at the collegiate level and in the NFL. As you can imagine there was [Read more…]