No Discount Training
“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.…
Category Archives: Exercise
Drug Test Your Trainer
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…
Goals – Running Scared
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…
Keep Your Head Up
“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…
Kettlebell Training
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…
Keep The Body Guessing (Dodgeball)
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!”
SUCK IT UP
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…
M.F.D.I.
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…
Morning Stretches At The Bar
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…