Category: Personal Training
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As the New Year approaches, in the first few months, we will once again obsess over working out and eating right. The problem is that by Febuary,/March most of us will have foregone our health/fitness resolutions. The secret to achieving any goal can be summed up in one word: consistency. Goals are achieved when we…
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A few weeks ago, my sister gave me $100 to Amazon for my birthday. And guess what I bought…yes $60 worth of organic gummy bears. What did you think I was gonna say $60 worth of veggies?! As expected I’ve eaten bags and bags of those yummy, chewy, and so satisfying cuddly gelatins. Well, my…
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When I started to think about using which diet I was to use to win my bet against Will, here were my choices: Veggie and Protein (Kate calls this the “Joyless Diet”) AM starchy/PM fibrous carbs Ketogenic diet Intermittent Fasting In my attempt to get super lean, a common denominator in most diets is that…
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In the gym as well in life, there is this notion that hard work pays off. A quote that I like to say to my athletes is: “Hard work will beat talent any day, but talent combined with hard work, now that is magic.” The tennis player I train kinda looks like her. I train a tennis…
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I am a firm believer in my own made up Good Wheel Theory (GWT). What is GWT? It states that a car with the most glamorous powerful engine, but without good wheels, is useless as a pet rock. Same goes for the human body, you could have the most powerful hips and legs but without…
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The Jefferson Curls in its essence is a loaded stretch for both the lower back and the hamstring. Because the hamstrings in general are much stronger (and tighter for most of us), we can overstretch the lower back muscles while under stretching the hamstrings. A really tight hamstring prevents us from tying our shoes, putting…
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It seems to me, from the reading I have done so far, that equestrian sports are far more demanding than first meets the eye. It takes stamina, strength, finesse, and muscular coordination to team up with a very large and powerful athletic equine partner. It is also clear that equestrian sports pose risks to riders…
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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…