Many of us personal trainers and our clients look in a mirror and might see something that we are not 100% satisfied with. Honestly I do not think I know one person that looks the way she/he wants to look like. There always seems to...
A lot of our personal training clients mention orthopedic issues they have accumulated over the years and have been seeing physical therapists for. Their results have been mixed. Some have had excellent results with their therapy and others have not. The question is what made...
Not too long ago CNNMoney.com posted and article that stated exactly what I mentioned in my headline. They quoted a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research which found that clients who are among the healthiest 20% in the their fifties retired with three...
First of all I apologize for not posting for so long. We had some issues with the website host but it finally was resolved. In personal training we don't see people getting tired of training nearly as much as when people work out by themselves. Because...
Last year I started running Ultra-Marathons. That seems kind of crazy since I have only done two marathons prior to it. On September first I participated in the Iron Mountain 50 Mile Ultra-Marathon and it was a fantastic experience. This past Saturday 2/1/2013 I participated in...
Occasionally someone asks my personal trainers about supplements, specifically protein and creatine. Today I write about creatine. Research over the last couple of years has come to the conclusion that creatine is a supplement that can help you with your training performance, given that the training has...
We have a lot of personal training clients that come in the first time, telling us they have had a shoulder injury in the past. Most of them have a typical impingement problem, others might have a partially or completely torn rotator cuff muscle. As...
They are in almost every workout routine it seems: shoulder presses, incline bench presses and more. Our clients sometimes feel very strongly about them, one way or the the other. But are they bad for you or should everyone include them in their routine? No one...
So many people come to us wanting to lose weight. The ones who do what is necessary have an awesome success and being part of changing their life is just amazing. We want to help you transform your life regardless of you being a client...
This past week we were featured in the Charlotte Observer. Take a couple of minutes and check it out. 8 Tips for Hiring a Personal Trainer...
I don't know about you but a lot of my clients, including my wife have problems with one thing. The more they deny themselves the food they want to eat the more they crave it, finally they give up and just binge it. That probably sounds...
The Wall Street Journal recently (Nov. 28th 2012) wrote an article discussing the impact of running on athletes. Two recent studies about to be published this months in the British journal Heart seem to indicate that running can have a negative impact on you. You are...