Category: Athletic Performance
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While I was training my clients the other day, there was a young member that was working out in the gym. The exercises that he was doing took me back to my glory days of lifting iron. Back then my goals were Popeye arms that measured at least 15”—if not 17”, a 400 lbs barbell…
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For as long as I can remember my main form of training myself was either bodybuilding, Olympic lifting, or powerlifting. I always thought that there was a need for external weights barbells and dumbbells and brand name weight equipment like Cybex, Lifefitness, etc to get a good workout. In 2014, however, I made a paradigm…
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My client’s awesome daughter doing the horsey thing With the return of the Preakness once again to B-more, everyone is buzzing about all things equine. Also a few weeks ago, while I was being a total couch potato, I happened to stumble upon the FEI World Equestrian Games. So that got me thinking: how and…
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For the last year and a half, I switched my exercise routine to more bodyweight exercises with the goal of holding a free-standing handstand for 30 seconds. Its been a long, good experience with a few nagging injuries–which I’ve been able to work through. For the last few weeks, I’ve decided to ditch using the…
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Lately, Christopher has been tireless like the Energizer Bunny. He crawls, stands, does squats, climbs, and sings all day with his operatic mother. He has even started to walk with hints of running here and there. I could confidently tell you that, like most young-uns, his work capacity is bar none. Work Capacity Work in…
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So what do I propose? Well, as Geoffrey Chaucer once said “patience is a virtue”; you will just have to read the next post for the answer. A few months ago, I took an online course called Body Matter through McGill University in Canada. One of the topics that piqued my interest was a presentation…
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Father’s day is coming up and I am gonna experience my first Father’s Day…crazy! I was telling Janet, one of my clients, today that I could not have imagined, when I started working with her 15 years ago, that I would let alone find a great girl to marry, but I, who can barely put…