Strength Training Philosophy Part #4 (Body Type #2)
So the last of the four body types is #2. This is a pretty common body type for a high school athletes who is doing quite a bit of ross training. Many adults who do different types of workouts (yoga, strength, cardiovascular, etc). If you had to rank the Body types by which one is [...]
Strength Training Part #4 (Body type 4)
Body type 4 has always been the most challenging to train for me. They are easily categorized by their extreme range of motion. They typically have greater than normal range of motion in their joints. Another good example of this body type is a swimmer. The image that always comes to mind is Michael Phelps [...]
Body Type #1 (the extreme cases)
When I was looking through body types and various pictures I could use I stumbled across 2 that just blew me away and I had to share them with you. The squirrel one I added I though was quite funny but these 2 are absolute freak shows. I do not know wether to laugh or [...]
Strength Training part #4 (Body Type 3)
Like I mentioned, I am going out of order just a bit on the Body Types. The reason is simply that #2 is a little harder to understand and having the knowledge of the other 3 helps. Well it helps me anyway so there you go. Body Type #3 is easily characterized by any someone [...]
Strength Training Part #4 (Body Type 1)
This information is coming directly from the certification I received from Adapt Training. Keep in mind this was about three years ago so perhaps their ideas have changed in that time. One of the main components of the training system was the ability to understand key characteristics of your clients body to help you understand [...]
Training in the Cubicle Part #1
We have talked many times about how your body responds to the stimulus you give it. What if your stimulus happens to be seating in a cubicle for 10 hours a day? What happens when you break a bone and put a cast on it for a month? After the month the muscles are tight, [...]
Strength Training Part #3 (Integrators)
I hope you understand the concept on Neutralizers, the next most important part is Integrators. Here is one of the major issues we have seen with strength training is that it teaches our muscular system to work independently as opposed to one seamless unit that promotes proper movement of your skeletal system. Think about the [...]
Strength Training Philosophy Part #2 (Neutralizers)
To first determine the type of training that will best suite your needs we need to discuss 2 very important components of training. This is one of the best lessons that any trainer will receive. When I was first starting off in training I was a super set guy. I went form one exercise to [...]
Proper Form for an Abdominal Crunch
I wanted to do a blog real quick about proper form on how to do an abdominal crunch. I stopped by a gym yesterday while a fitness class was going on and I was amazed at how terrible the form was on their abdominal crunches. I was also very disappointed that the instructor would only [...]
Strength Training Philosophy
We discussed running efficiency last post and I will add posts to this soon, now lets also talk about strength training as well. The picture listed above (from nasa.com of all places) is truly what is wrong with the current mentality in strength training. What I mean by this is that we have lost the [...]