Understanding lifting tempo is complicated enough for trainers, and most likely completely escaping your clients' attention. Science reveals different outcomes for how we apply such cadences in our...
Training Concepts
Personal training concepts are addressed and explored to help personal trainers better understand how to program for clients.
The Three Best Exercises For Ankle Joint Mobility
You may have to realize that your clients, or even yourself, have some significant ankle joint mobility limitations. Hopefully, you've also come to realize how truly signifcant ankle mobility is to...
Metabolic Conditioning: How to Leverage MetCons to Train Fat Loss Clients
Many fitness clients hire trainers to lose weight and see results fast. While part of our initial conversations during intake is to level expectations and explain healthy average weight loss varies...
Postactivation Potentiation: Unleash Your Clients’ Full Capabilities
Any personal trainer working with clients long-term should be focused on developing increased power, strength, or speed through safe means. After guiding a client through a well-designed program for...
Olympic Weightlifting Methods
When trainers hear about Olympic weightlifting they immediately think of two things: either taking a loaded barbell and ripping it off the floor in one violent motion with minimal technique, or that the lifts are detrimental and deleterious to the health and well being of the person doing the lifts. These two assumptions highlight a vast miscomprehension of Olympic weightlifting.
Everesting: The Ultimate Cycling Challenge
Since its inception, Everesting has experienced growth far beyond its creators’ wildest dreams. Now considered a worldwide sensation, cycling athletes can choose from almost 20,000 Everesting...
Powerlifting Primer: An Intro To Strength Sports
In recent years, the sport of powerlifting has been steadily growing within the fitness community. Powerlifting is the only sport to truly test a competitor’s muscular strength against their...
Wobble Training: What is Oscillating Kinetic Energy?
When I first saw Oscillating Kinetic Energy training 10 years ago, I remember thinking is this a cool exercise trick or another attention grabbing way to workout intended to go viral on social...
“Anti-Core” Training: The Importance of Stabilizing the Spine
Anti-core training may not only help you but also your clients improve spinal stability and athletic performance. In order to better understand the concept of the core, let's first define what is...
Functional Training: Why Your Clients Need It
Functional training enables clients to do daily tasks more easily. It involves strength training utilizing more than one muscle group through compound exercises and, oftentimes, plyometrics. Like a...