Around the New Years time we posted the first part of “10 Reasons to Hire a Personal Trainer “. In the post we discussed the staggered statistics that the #1 New Years resolution of 2012 was to “Lose Weight”, of that population 8% of the people actually achieved their [Read more…]
Archives for 2014
Personal Trainer Education
What’s up guys, got some goodies for your personal training education today. The first post I believe everyone should read. Being a personal trainer in NYC, attempting to compete in Olympic weightlifting again- despite my many injuries, being a weightlifting coach, building a start up, and so much more, I get caught up with all the little BS crap…also doesn’t help that our weather here in New York City has been sucking ass! MOVING ON 🙂 The post by [Read more…]
Core Strengthening Exercises: Planks!
Forget about sit ups and crunches to get “Six Pack Abs”, planks are an extremely effective way to fire up your trunk. I can admit as a NYC personal trainer and Olympic weightlifter doing regular planks can become monotonous. Holding a plank for longer than a minute just kills me, it’s not that it’s physically [Read more…]
9 Overhead Mobility Exercises
Being a NYC personal trainer and Olympic weightlifter, I often get questions about how I’m able to do an overhead squat or overhead press without pain. Generally speaking most people do not have the mobility or stability to obtain the correct overhead position, they’ll either hyperextend [Read more…]
Road to Recovery P1
If you’ve ever been injured and had to deal with the daily nagging pains this is a post for you. Hell, even if you’ve never been injured before you still can learn from this post to hopefully minimize your risk of injury. But inevitable a majority of the fitness population will go through some type of injury (minor or major). The type of severity is the combination of luck, smart training, and genetics.
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Fitness Articles You Should Read
Here at Fusion Performance Training, things are starting to get super busy with a number of new projects we’re working on. It’ll take some time but we’re pretty excited and hopefully we’ll be able to make a positive impact in the fitness field. With that said, during my downtime I try to stay up to date with quality training information, unfortunately in the over saturated and unqualified personal training field it’s hard to find. So I’m going to try to post articles or podcast that I’ve found to be very [Read more…]