Emphasis This movement is very effective in isolating the muscles in the back of your upper leg (hamstrings). Starting Position Lie face-down on the bench with your knees just off the edge of the...
Exercise Programming
Exercise programming articles to give personal trainers ideas and inspiration for training their clients.
How To Do Seated Leg Curls
Emphasis This movement is very effective in isolating the muscles in the back of your upper leg (hamstrings). Starting Position Sit on the seat with your back against the back pad. Place your legs...
How To Do Leg Extensions
Emphasis This movement is very effective in isolating the muscles in the front of your upper leg (quadriceps). Starting Position Sit on the seat with your back against the seat. Place the back of...
Circuit Fitness For Your Family Holiday
Social Support is a major factor for adapting fitness habits successfully. It can make or break long-term commitment. Positive social support means you have people in your life who have healthy...
How To Do Leg Presses
The leg press exercise is a favored one for beginning lifters, given the ease of moving a lot of weight with minimal risk. Still, there are tips and considerations to take into account for a safe...
Healthy Holiday Accountability Challenge
Baked goods, cocktails, creamy appetizers and chocolates are coming to a party near you... The holidays are approaching, whether you like it or not. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah,...
How To Do A Step-Up
The step-up exercise is personally one of my favorite exercises to prescribe for any runner looking to increase their force production through the ground with each stride. When performed with the...
Creating Exercise Variety Simply and Effectively
Internal rotation and external rotation have a very important role in exercise programming... Your humeral and femoral joints both have many muscles attaching all around them like wires supporting a...
How to do Hack Squats
For lower body strengthening, squats are royalty. Adding in variations and equipment can help round out muscle development and repair defecits. The hack squat is one such variation Emphasis The...
A Natural Program Proven to Increase Muscle and Decreases Fat Pt. 2
THE PROGRAM To start the program for five days, target everything about your training and nutrition towards fat loss.12 FAT LOSS12 Intermittent fasting boosts testosterone by increasing the...