I get it, you want more clients. And as Veruca Salt would say, “I want it now, Daddy”… In an age where fast, quick, easy and convenient is the norm, personal trainers, like most are always seeking the fastest route to a full client roster. Even those who have been in the game for...
Dieting is like a pendulum. Unfortunately, when the pendulum swings away from one extreme, it doesn’t simply stop at an appropriate middle ground – it goes all the way to the opposite extreme. So goes popular dieting, with the flavor of flexible dieting now ubiquitous on social media represent...
What It Is Ashwagandha belongs to a class of compounds called adaptogens, so called because they help the body adapt – or, more technically, they positively modulate the body’s response to stress. Speaking more subjectively, adaptogens generally reduce stress, and can have other benefits as we...
A hugely misunderstood and misapplied principle of strength training is variation. Lifters either vary their training too frequently or not frequently enough, which leads them to spin their wheels and plateau. Whilst there is no universal way to program, there are better and worse ways to apply the...
Tired of being tired? Focused on being focused? Unhappy with being unhappy? In the first installment of this new series intended to put the spotlight on underappreciated supplements, I feature the supplement for you: L-tyrosine. What It Is L-Tyrosine (which I’ll refer to throughout the remainder of...
You know Cerberus? That massive 3-headed dog in Hercules, the “Hound of Hades”. That’s what the fitness industry is like. On one hand (head) there is; boob-implants, teeth so white they could light a room and YouTube VLogs showing off fast cars, mansions, international travel and “a full day of eati...
Daily Thought No. 1 – Mastering The Fundamentals As much as I enjoy writing, the due diligence I wish to do each topic when producing an article, inevitably makes it an arduous task. Currently I have 5 in-progress articles open on my laptop, plus the plethora of others that I have also begun writing...
In this new series, I’d like to lay out thorough general training recommendations for all major bodyparts. To begin, I’d like to address quad training, and in the interest of producing regular content, I’ve opted to break each bodypart’s training recommendations into parts, beginning with training f...
