What to do during the quarantine? If it isn’t already happening, every day feels like a routine and before you know it, you can’t remember what day it is. You’re stuck inside, everything is on pause and you can’t even remember what day it is. Maybe your routine is out of whack, maybe you’re in… Continue reading Four Things You Should be Doing During the Quarantine
Category: Workout Tips
How to create a quick home workout
Build your own at-home sessions Let’s face it, we’re all stuck at home indefinitely and most of us didn’t have the foresight to build an at-home gym to prepare for a global pandemic. So, we’re left with some floor space and maybe a couple of pieces of equipment. You, like all of us, have access… Continue reading How to create a quick home workout
How to Create Exercise Variation with Minimal Equipment
Mix it Up With Minimal Equipment How to do my exercise with minimal equipment? Every semester I put alone a dumbbell and a bench in front of my class. I say you have 10 minutes to come up with as many exercises as possible. This year we came up with 109 exercises. It’s a good… Continue reading How to Create Exercise Variation with Minimal Equipment
How to Regain Overhead Mobility
A lot of people use to ask me: how to regain your mobility? First of all, before you begin programming, consider overhead mobility. It’s our duty to make our clients reach their goals with respect to their movement abilities. Overhead mobility is important for different exercises like presses or crisp high fives. Not to mention… Continue reading How to Regain Overhead Mobility
How to Avoid Struggling with your Fitness Resolutions
Since it’s now officially the new year (in both the Gregorian calendar and the Chinese zodiac). I thought it would be a good time to write out some advice for all the ‘resolutionaries’; all of those people that are looking to make exercise and healthier living a part of their new year’s goals. This is… Continue reading How to Avoid Struggling with your Fitness Resolutions
You Probably Won’t Make Health Changes: Here’s Why
“Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own behavior” Some sarcastic person making a terribly accurate meme I wrote the title of the piece knowing that it may come across as pessimistic. That’s not the point. I’m not making attempts to use any reverse psychology tricks on you as well (“screw you,… Continue reading You Probably Won’t Make Health Changes: Here’s Why
How To Get Out Of A Workout Rut
This is a tough time of year to stay on track with the holidays approaching, but let’s be honest, there are many times where there are challenges keeping us from achieving our health & fitness goals… here are 5 Tips to get out of a Workout Rut: 1. Grab a friend! It’s always more fun… Continue reading How To Get Out Of A Workout Rut
Core Bracing: How to Start and How Can It Help You
Core Bracing Helps Your Back Throughout my time as a trainer, I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard: My goal is to become… Oh but I also really want to have a nice defined core… To be fair, this is great and all but, I always try to take my clients a step… Continue reading Core Bracing: How to Start and How Can It Help You
How to Write a Better Fitness Program with these 6 Tips
Fitness Program “What do you guys write in those things?” one of my clients asked in regards to their program journals. If you are new to the gym, a program may seem like a complex mathematical formula with reps, sets, weight numbers, and exercises, How to write a better fitness program with these 6 tips?… Continue reading How to Write a Better Fitness Program with these 6 Tips
Become a Master Wizard of These 4 Spells / Moves
Getting started When less experienced clients ask me what they should be doing on their own, I usually will say something like “keep it simple, safe, and effective; burn calories and don’t hurt yourself”. How to be a master of moves? After that, I like to introduce the idea that if you are just starting… Continue reading Become a Master Wizard of These 4 Spells / Moves