4 Mistakes Beginners Make In The Gym That Will Undoubtedly Stop Progress
Depending on where you’re at in life, a mistake can either be a good or bad thing. On one hand, they help us learn and grow so we can do things better than we did previously. On the other hand, they can hold us back from making progress towards a goal or achievement. The funny…
One Squat Variation You Need To Try
Strength training is one of the most effective ways to burn fat, get leaner, and become more athletic. It’s something that everyone should be doing from the high school basketball player to the grandmother wanting to play with her grandkids. Anyone can benefit from it. When designing your own strength training program, it’s important to…
How To Assess And Improve Movement: Part 2
Last week, I talked about how easy it can be to assess your own movement patterns to determine what exercises are appropriate for your body. Not only did I mention how easy it is, but how extremely important as well. An assessment can provide a map of sorts. It gives direction and a framework on how…
How To Assess And Improve Movement: Part 1
An assessment is an often overlooked but rather important part of a strength training program. Everyone has limitations and movement restrictions that can prevent them from performing certain exercises with correct form. For example, office workers usually have a hard time performing any overhead exercises correctly. Sitting at a desk all day places them into…
What Exercises Are Best For Fat Loss?
A couple weeks back, I wrote about how diet was more important for fat loss than exercise. I didn’t say exercise was irrelevant, but when you compare the two, nutrition seems to have a greater effect on body composition than exercise alone. I also mentioned why strength training is a vital piece of the fat loss…
4 Tips To Make An Exercise Harder
If you’ve been going to the same gym long enough, you’ll start to notice an interesting trend. Some of the people perform the same exercises every single time. I remember one guy specifically from a gym I worked at. Each morning he came in, he did incline bench press, lat pulldowns, cable curls, and finished…
How To Properly Warm Up
Warming up is the most overlooked aspect of a workout. Most people don’t know what a good warm up should look like. For the average gym member who does warm up, it usually consists of walking/running on the treadmill for 5 minutes followed by some static stretching. In reality, it should be and is so much more…
2 Quick Fixes To Relieve Knee Pain During Squats And Lunges
One of the most frustrating things you will (or may have) encounter(ed) while training is knee pain. Unfortunately, it’s a common occurrence for many people. Anytime you are dealing with joint pain, you have to be careful. By careful, I don’t mean stop training all together. I simply mean being creative with the way you…
The 1 Arm Kettlebell Front Squat
When you walk into most gyms, you’ll be hard pressed to find many people doing squats. It’s unfortunate because this exercise works a lot of different muscle groups in the body including the quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes, calves, and abs. Squats are also one of the most functional exercises there is. Think about it. We do…
The Split Squat
Today, I want to cover an exercise that I don’t see being done very often: the split squat. I want to highlight some benefits of this exercise as well as some common mistakes I see when taking a client through it for the first time. So let’s jump right in! First things first, what is…