Should you encourage your clients to be eccentric?

For many years, it appeared that resistance training with a focus on eccentric muscular contractions could only be found hidden away in the dark corners of hardcore bodybuilding gyms. While some great examples can now be found in elite sports conditioning and ...

There’s no doubt about it, we are in the results business. People come to us to achieve a certain outcome - in general, to look, feel or perform better. However, most Fitness Professionals are not tracking results at all. For my previous company, we asked 1000 personal training clients ...

You just crushed a great workout and you feel great. You added some weight to your usual exercises, and you even tried a few new ones. You wake up the next day and can hardly move. If you’ve ever experienced this feeling, you can relate to this picture:

Some take ...

Straw.

It, like stress, which it is often a metaphor for, breaks the backs of camels and men alike.

As Precision Nutrition’s Krista Scott-Dixon and Brian St. Pierre enumerate in their article, “Good stress, bad stress”, there are multiple types of stress. Bad stress includes such things as dealing with terrible ...

Becoming a personal trainer is one of the most exciting decisions an individual could make with their career. Suddenly, your passion becomes your profession. You can exercise, and help other people exercise, while getting paid for it. The classic quote of “never working a day in your life if ...