Lately I’ve been answering questions from potential personal training clients that some what surprised me. So I thought I’d go over some basic fallacies and misconception of personal training and personal [Read more…]
Fallacies of Personal Training
Grip Strength
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
Effective Fitness Programming
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…]
Fitness Crazed
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…]
It’s In The Details
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…]
J.P. Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge 3.3 Mile Run
Yesterday I presented to a group regarding preparation for the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge 3.3m run. At this point the group has one week [Read more…]