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13 Ways to Rock your Personal Training Business in 2012
Sell the Dream or Emotion – people care less about Reps, Sets and Exercises and more about the results. Sell the Dream Body and Lifestyle rather than the Personal Training sessions! Make Contact Again – send out an email to … Continue reading
Top 5 Mistakes in Kettlebell Training
1. Treat it like a Dumbbell This is so painful to watch but I have seen Personal Trainers as well as Fitness Enthusiast using a kettlebell for bicep curls and triceps extensions. The true benefits of Kettlebell Training lies in … Continue reading
Exercise Programming – the only checklist you need
Whenever I exercise or I’m training a client I follow a simple checklist. This checklist keeps me on track and makes sure that I don’t miss anything important from my program. 1. Soft Tissue Taking care of soft tissue is … Continue reading
Revolutionise your stretching with these 3 spinal cord reflexes
Muscle Spindle Stretch Receptor Held within the belly of each muscle is a stretch receptor that protects the muscle from being over stretched. During stretching as the muscle length changes the Stretch Receptor sends a signal to the spinal cord … Continue reading
5 Solutions for a Failing Personal Training Business
Offer A Guarantee Personal Training is one of those services, along with osteopaths and chiropractors that the market lets you get away with NOT achieving results. Imagine you bought a meal at a restaurant and the food was bad you … Continue reading
Top 7 Fitness Challenges. How do you compare?
5 x Turkish Get Ups with 1/2 Bodyweight The ultimate full body exercise for stabilisation and mobility. If you want to bomb proof your body against injury then this is the exercise to master. Rumour has it that ancient greeks … Continue reading
The Alpine Pass, my toughest challenge to date
I’ve just returned home from 3 weeks trekking from East to West across Switzerland and the Swiss Alps. The official route is called the Alpine Pass, 202 miles and 59,000 feet of ascent. It goes down as one of the … Continue reading
7 Reasons Why You’re NOT Getting Results
1. Not Creating a Stress Response Do you just go through the motions? or do you really push yourself? The body adapts when it is put under stress but the stress has to be great enough to warrant an adaptation. … Continue reading
Windmills are NOT only for the Dutch
The Windmill is based on the “Triangle Pose” in yoga and serves 3 main purposes: 1. Works on Shoulder Stability Here we are not working on strengthening the shoulder complex per se but rather improving its timing. You can have … Continue reading
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff!
I get asked frequent questions about supplements, protein powders, macro and micro nutrient balances, sets, reps, intervals, exercise selection etc. People want to know how to get the BEST results and fast. And I don’t blame them. In a world … Continue reading