Believe, as you age strength training is the best thing you can do to improve your health and fitness level. Strength training is important because around age 40 you start to experience muscle loss. “If you don’t do anything to replace the lean muscle you lose, you’ll increase the percentage of fat in your body,” […]
[Continue reading...]How To Make Your Fitness Bootcamp Stand Out!
Update 11/28/20. These days, it seems that there are fitness bootcamps everywhere you look. Even weekly classes in a gym are now being referred to as fitness boot camps because it’s the new trendy buzz word. Because of this, what you do right now to make sure that your bootcamp business does not become lost […]
[Continue reading...]Should Women Lift Weights?
Even though we live in an ocean of information, I still run into women who believe myths about strength training. Because of this let me dispel the Top 3 Weight Lifting Myths that most women think are true and follow that up with reasons why women should be lifting weights. My hope is that by […]
[Continue reading...]Endurance Athletes: Do Not Resist Resistance Training
A long standing debate within the fitness industry has been the appropriateness of strength training for endurance athletes, both recreational and competitive. Many people, including fitness professionals assume that endurance athletes share nothing in common with their strength athlete counterparts. Some examples of strength athletes include, but are not necessarily limited to: Olympic weightlifters Power […]
[Continue reading...]Warming Up Before Exercise
There has been debate in the fitness and strength and conditioning world about warming up before exercise. Let me see if I can shed some light on this controversy, speaking from not only my own personal experiences but also from what I know as an exercise professional as well as from my observations of colleagues […]
[Continue reading...]Real Life Personal Trainer Story
You need to read this! I recently got an email from someone who is a brand new personal trainer. The story she told me was very interesting and disturbing and I’m reposting it here to help give people insights into what goes on in some health clubs. I am omitting the name of the trainer […]
[Continue reading...]Early Sports Specialization: Don’t Do It
As recently as a week ago I had a friend who knows what I do ask me whether his son should concentrate on one sport exclusively. In no uncertain terms I told him, no way! There are all sorts of so-called experts out there claiming that early specialization is the way to go for creating […]
[Continue reading...]Lifting Weights: It Does a Body Good
Historically, exercise in this country has been driven by the exercise physiologists and cardiologists crowd, Dr. Ken Cooper being the primary case in point. His aerobics commandments of the 1970’s started the whole running fitness boom and many have not looked back. As a result, fitness for many came to be defined by aerobic fitness […]
[Continue reading...]Strength Training: The Real Fountain of Youth
I believe, as you age strength training is the best thing you can do to improve your health and fitness level. Strength training is important because around age 40 you start to experience muscle loss. “If you don’t do anything to replace the lean muscle you lose, you’ll increase the percentage of fat in your […]
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