“Do you offer a discount on your training services?” This was the question asked to me a few years ago by a lady, a surgeon’s wife, when she was shopping me for my training services. She had never tried a moment of training with me. We didn’t even have an initial consultation to discuss her ...
I had never seen cocaine before… It was the summer of 1985 and I was on break between my sophomore and junior years at Manhattan College. Going into my junior year, I knew I’d be taking courses more specific to my Exercise Physiology Major. I figured some exposure in a health club setting would be ...
Sometimes… the only way to figure out what we want, is to determine what we don’t want. Too often people set emotionally weak goals as their motivation. I’m all for setting positive goals. When I ask prospective training clients, “Why are you here? Why do you want to train?” They’ll say any or all of ...
“Keep Your Head Up!” might sound like a cheery, positive affirmation to help you have a positive outlook, and perhaps a positive affirmation is what you need right now. However, “Keep Your Head Up!” means exactly that – KEEP YOUR HEAD UP while you train! All of my clients and all the members of my ...
You may have seen Amy Roloff training with kettlebells during her fitness episode of ‘Little People, Big World’. Some of you may already be familiar with kettlebells as they have regained popularity in many gyms around the world. (They’ve actually been around for a very long time!) The Kettlebell or Gyra as they are called ...
Are you keeping your body in a constant state of adaptation? Make sure you are regularly changing your exercise routines because, as they said in the movie Dodgeball, “You’ve got to keep the body guessing!”
No one should get upset. It’s simply a question. “Why are you fat?”
What does SUCK IT UP actually mean? The term actually comes from World War II fighter pilots. During the 40′s, oxygen masks were not as sophisticated as they are today. Back then, “in the good ‘ol days” as my dad used to say, if a pilot performed an aggressive aerial maneuver which caused him to… ...
After years of experience in fitness, sometimes we fitness professionals forget to address the fundamentals for designing a successful fitness program. M.F.D.I. is a fundamental I learned in my freshman year studying Exercise Physiology at Manhattan College. M.F.D.I. is typically found in the first chapter of any fitness or training book. M.F.D.I. is one of ...
I’m a huge believer in the necessity of stretching, especially as I get older. I stretch all of my clients, I teach three stretch classes each week at Trainer’s Club; I’ve even appeared on AM Northwest to speak specifically about stretching. Click here to see David discuss the topic of Stretching on KATU’s AM Northwest. ...
