Morning Musings #4 – I’m Injured. Now what? – Part 1

“So I’ve started to get back into the swing of things, really trying to be regimented and have my routine that I work on everyday. But after doing it everyday for a month straight, my knee begins hurting whenever I do this. Now I don’t do too much because I’m resting my injury.”

Does the above scenario sound familiar to you? This is a scenario that often triggers someone like yourself to look towards hiring a fitness professional, so hopefully the following should be well engrained within your future trainer’s mindset before seeking him or her out.

Fitness Tech #2 – Websites & Apps

I’m all about distilling information to its simplest format, while also keeping my ear close to the ground for the latest information within the fitness world.

Morning Musings #3 – Spot Reduction & Abdominal Exercises

Happy Seis de Mayo everyone! (How is that for Spanglish?)

It is one day after Cinco de Mayo, and if you celebrated along with the rest of the nation, then you might be a bit tired while browsing your social media feed. Because of that, today’s post will be a simple read.

Morning Musings #2 – Fat Loss and Redefining What Exercise Means to You

It’s the first week of May, and with that comes the onslaught of “Oh crap it’s almost beach season!” mentality from everyone few far and between – myself included!

Understanding Perspective

Understanding perspective is a very powerful tool that I have come to learn to utilize, first as a personal trainer working with a general population clientele, and then further as a strength coach working with many athletes of various age groups. This has definitely helped me with networking, relationship building, along with selling any one on certain philosophies that I subscribe to.

Eat More… to Lose Weight?

I have the blessing to work with a variety of clients, and not surprisingly a goal that many of my clients choose is weight loss, or more specifically fat loss. As the general population is mostly unawares of the intricacies of losing weight, the fact of the matter is as a fitness professional I am more interested in the loss of fat as opposed to the absolute loss of weight. (This is coming from an overweight and obese standpoint, as well as from an aesthetic point of view, whether it is to appeal to the opposite sex, or to simply fit into a smaller size of jeans.)

Sometimes they come hand in hand; other times, they don’t. In fact, I’ve seen people gain weight while simultaneously dropping body fat. What is the reason for this phenomenon?

Musings on Big Lifts and Sprinting

So like I alluded to in my last post, I’ve been pretty busy and my focus has not been on the blogpost front for quite some time. I was approached by co-worker and strength coach Joe Giandonato, who is also an expert contributor on several sites, namely STACK.com, elitefts.com, and T-Nation.com for starters, so needless to say he knows what he is talking about. Also, he is an active powerlifter, along with being a pretty smart dude. Brains with the brawn, and he wants to contribute to my blog? Perfect timing were my initial thoughts.

So with that, here are a few tips on what to do and what not to do if you want to gain some muscle on your skinny frame before beach season starts.