Archives for 2014

Grip Strength

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The other day I watched a trainer doing wrist curls and wrist extensions with his client. While there’s nothing in particular wrong with these exercises, it just lacks training efficiency for a client. As a personal trainer in NYC, one of the biggest aspects when training your client is workout efficiency. This basically means that the personal trainer needs to maximize the session time with the biggest

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Effective Fitness Programming

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When you’re looking to get stronger most people look at what the strongest person did, when you’re looking to lose weight most people look at physique competitors or people that have lost a good amount of weight, and so on. We look at other people successes and [Read more…]

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3 Tips for a Stronger Bench Press

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The bench press is probably one of the most popular upper body strength exercises in the gym. It’s so popular that the phrase,

“how much do you bench?”

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Fitness Crazed

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The “Fitness Crazed” opinion post in the NY Times was emailed to me by so many clients, friends, and personal trainers I thought it would be a great idea to write a post on it. If you haven’t read it, Daniel Duane (the columnist) talks [Read more…]

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It’s In The Details

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I started to write this as the combine completed and the NFL draft was just about to happen. ESPN was showing a lot of specials about NFL combine prep and it got me thinking.  Many people watch these shows and think that the combine athletes training is much different than their own but in reality they squat, bench, jump, sprint, etc… just like everyone else. The key of their success is done within the [Read more…]

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NYC Personal Trainer Development

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We all know the importance of continuing education through pod casts, books, seminars etc… for a personal trainers. But I know most personal trainers are EXTREMELY busy developing programs, responding to emails, writing, training clients, training themselves, and so on. Heck a typical personal trainer starts training at 6 am and ends around 9pm. In between that time it’s difficult to fit in [Read more…]

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