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…]
Band Resisted Step Ups
I’m sure you’re all aware by now how I’m a big fan of the jump stretch bands first created by Dick Hartzell (the guy in the video above. [Read more…]
Sports Performance Training Fallacies P1
In the world of Sports Performance Training there are a lot of misconceptions. The fitness field is full of hype and sometimes things get a bit watered down from the truth. I remember as a freshman in high-school reading that Bo Jackson only did push up and hill sprints, so [Read more…]
Tracking Progress
I get a lot of questions on how to accurate track body fat percentage. While there are many ways to do so, most will variability. Let’s go over a [Read more…]
NYC Personal Trainer Advice P2: “Seminars”
Here’s the 2nd part on our series about my advice to other personal trainers. While this is all just my opinion, there are of course many different avenues to success. If you’ve found yours great, but if you haven’t take a [Read more…]
Nutrition Compliance
Nutrition just like fitness has many different avenues to succes. This can be extremely confusing to most especially since many avenues totes that “this is the best and most effective method” and yada yada yada. To be honest, [Read more…]
NYC Personal Trainer Advice P1: “Certifications”
I’ve been in the fitness field for a little over 10 years now and have worked in various levels of fitness from Collegiate/NFL Strength and Conditioning Coach to a NYC personal trainer. Through out these [Read more…]