While I usually write about strength and sport training topics, today I’m going to venture off a bit and address a topic that I believe is very important to my fellow trainers. I’ve been lucky enough to have met many personal trainers in the past year at local and top levels. During conversation, I’m always [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Retirement
Posted in Money on May 29, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Ab Training for Absolute Bada$$es!
Posted in Ab Training on May 25, 2010 | 23 Comments »
Last week T-Nation published the final article of my Inside the Muscles series. This series is the first of its kind; it charted the EMG activity of a bunch of different exercises on various muscles and parts of muscles. Last week’s article was titled Best Ab Exercises. In case you haven’t read the series, here [...]
Start Saving Up for Next Year’s JP Fitness Summit!
Posted in Seminars on May 21, 2010 | 11 Comments »
I’ve been to plenty of fitness seminars (five in the past year) and I must say that the annual JP Fitness Summit is a one-in-a-kind event! It’s unlike any other seminar you’ll attend. For those who don’t know, “JP” stand for Jean-Paul Francoeur, the personal trainer who started the JP Fitness forums many years ago. [...]
25 Random Thoughts for Strength Coaches and Personal Trainers
Posted in Sport Specific Training, Strength Training, Training Philosophy on May 14, 2010 | 27 Comments »
Lately there’s been a lot of activity going on in my brain so I thought it would be a good time to write an article to express my many thoughts. Often I have a good idea that doesn’t warrant its own article so from time to time I’ll just lump a bunch of thoughts together [...]
Begin With the End in Mind
Posted in Training Philosophy on May 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In Ken Blanchard’s book entitled The One Minute Manager, he recommends that you: 1. Look at your goals 2. Look at your performance, and 3. See if your behavior matches your goals All too often people have fitness goals yet their behaviors don’t match those goals. I see guys who say they want to gain [...]
Interview With Nia Shanks
Posted in Interviews on May 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s blogpost is an interview with Nia Shanks. I follow a lot of professionals in the fitness industry and it is my personal belief that Nia writes the best training programs out of any female in the industry. She knows how to get people strong, fit, and lookin’ good. I’ll let Nia introduce herself. 1. [...]
Special Workouts
Posted in Strength Training on May 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m a huge fan of Louie Simmons. Louie has positively impacted Powerlifting more than any single individual. Years ago Louie started teaching his pupils how to incorporate special workouts into their training regimens. Here are Louie’s words: If you are to become better, you must do more work. But how? We know that a workout [...]
