Bad Genetics or Hardgainer Belief

People often talk about bad genetics and why they can't do something. So today we are going to talk about those bad genetics

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Bad Personal Trainer (Explicit Rant Warning!)

I go off on a tangent about an idiot trainer I saw at the gym today. He might end up crippling his client by the time he's done with her.

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Review on the keys to life

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Weight Training for Women and the Myth of Looking Like a Man

I just had a short article published about why women can lift weights and will never look like a man doing so. It also covers why I believe that horrible myth started.  

Check it out: Weight Training for Women and the Myth of Looking Like a Man

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Workout with a Plan

I have recently had my article published Workout with a Plan. It's a short article on the mind set you should have before and after a workout. To many people just do the motions without taking a moment to think about what they are actually doing.

Check it out:
Workout with a Plan

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How to do a Bodyweight Squat

Here is a video I shot on how to do a proper body weight squat. This is my first time shooting a video. It's for an upcoming project with Wello. Hope it helps you out with proper form.

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The Hidden Truth About Diet Sweeteners

Some people think diet soda is great after all it has zero calories. I however have always preached against drinking any soda. My belief is based off personal observation. People that drink diet soda all the time seem to be overweight compared to people whom just say no to soda in general. Being that I am not a scientist I decided to research why this is. To see if my theory based on observation is correct or not. What I found out was surprising and frightening.
http://voices.yahoo.com/the-hidden-truth-diet-sweeteners-11467336.html?cat=5




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When Exercising Listen to Your Body to Avoid Injury

It's become an all to common theme in my field. I get a new client, we go over health records to see what I need to be aware of.  What I constantly see is they have gone to personal trainers before and received some sort of injury that could have been easily avoided.


The article has been published by Yahoo. To read about it: http://voices.yahoo.com/when-exercising-listen-body-avoid-injury-11056420.html?cat=5


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Genine's Amazing Transformation

It has been awhile since I've made a blog post. Work has been picking up and with the holidays I haven't had a moments spare time. This post is long over due. It's about Genine probably my best client and more so a really good friend.

About Genine:


Genine went to a personal trainer after having her first child to lose the baby weight she had gained. This proved unsuccessful she didn't lose the weight and ended up getting a knee injury. For the next 6 monthes she was doing physical therapy to repair her knee as a result.

This knee injury happened because the personal trainer didn't listen to his client. When Genine said her knee joint was hurting her he proceed to tell her to keep going it was supposed to hurt. This is a very big pet peeve I have against personal trainers that are supposed to be professionals. Take this as a warning if your trainer doesn't listen to you, for your own safety go to a different personal trainer.

Now back to the awesomeness that is Genine. Since the last time she tried a personal trainer she has had 2 more beautiful children. So she has come to me with having had 3 children now seeking to lose the weight she put on. So we made a program and I remained mindful of her pass injuries. I urged her as I do with all my clients to let me know what they are feeling especially any aches or pains. I can always change and tweak a program if I know what they are feeling  but I can not read minds.


Onto Genine's Results


She started out at 160.2lbs and has dropped down to 127.2 that is a 33lb drop. Not only did she lose the baby weight she had put on but some extra lbs have come off as well. She hasn't been this light and as in shape since the middle of high school to quote Genine.

Genines waist has dropped down 6 whole inches

She can now run a mile 3 and 1/2 minutes faster then when she first came to me. She now clocks a mile at exactly 10 minutes.

Her flexibility and strength have also both dramatically increased.


Time to show the proof.

This is Genine before and after 28lbs since then she has lost 5 more lbs

Conclusion

We worked as a team, she constantly informed me how her diet was and her body was feeling. So I was able to make the proper changes. She never made any excuses at all she and never slacked off. She pushed as hard as she could. Genine already had the determination, she just needed a proper guide to show her the way.

There is no excuse anybody should have for having bad health. Genine is a prime inspirational example of this. She has three kids, has been seriously injured and among other problems that I will keep disclosed she has succeed without making excuses. Now she has her health back not only for herself but for her family.

Anytime you make an excuse of why you can't do something think of Genine.


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Time to Pull Your Own Weight I

He can bench 785lbs wonder if he can do a pull up?

Alright tough guy you can bench 500lbs you are so amazingly strong. Now let me ask you can you do a pull up? You mean to tell me you can lift all those heavy weights but can't do a basic pull up something that could be used to save your life if ever you are hanging off a ledge.You aren't alone guys and girls alike struggle with the basic pull up.





Females struggle with pull up because the upper body muscles aren't as naturally developed without training as a male. Females tend to be more lower body dominant and guys tend to be more upper body dominant with no training. This doesn't mean females can't develop the strength to do them. They most certainly can, in fact many girls can do just as many pull ups as guys once properly trained.

Guys are naturally able to do pull ups as long as they are ultra thin. Big guys with muscles that are really strong struggle badly with them. When I was bone thin I could do 1 handed pulls no problem then, I got stronger and grew a few muscles. Now I'm lucky if I can do two pull ups. I wanted to figure out why as this annoyed me. the answer was rather plain to see and in front of my face the whole time.

Geek time we need to understand back anatomy:

I'll keep it in layman terms.When we are in the state of a a dead hang on a bar a bone in our backs called the scapula is stretched out. (Diagram below). Now typically when we think of pull ups we are thinking of working the big muscles in the back the latissimus doris. For this however I don't want you focusing on that muscle. I want you to focus on the Teres Major (Other diagram below it's the muscle highlighted in red)

Scapula

Teres Major

The teres major is mainly used to pull our arms down, it's the first back muscle to fire when we do a pull up from a dead hang. It is the main culprit usually on why we struggle with doing pull ups. This muscle tends to be very underdeveloped as it really isn't used for much other then pulling down stuff from over head a movement we rarely do.

His arms aren't fully locked out at the top of the movement

You might be thinking to yourself of another exercise that surely activates the teres major that you've seen big guy lifting heavy weights can do yet can't do a pull up, that exercise is the cable pulldown. I would agree this exercise can work the teres major however most bodybuilders or people working out back will not let themselves fully lock out with this exercise because this will engaged there biceps in the movement. Our back fires like this during that movement teres major > biceps > latissimus (The main muscle we are trying to target when we work out back). Since this yields the best results for back development often many people bring the movement short to not fire the bicep and keep the back muscles fired the whole time. Leading to an under developed teres major in the process.

The good news is this can be all fixed. We can strengthen that lagging teres major muscle no problem. The bad news is you'll have to wait till I post my teres major development routine that I developed for next times post.

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Basic Understanding of How Calories Work

Everybody is always looking for the next big thing to lost unwanted pounds. Nobody takes a second to learn why such diet works and nobody takes a second to understand why they relapsed after they stop some fad diet. Well in the simplest form everything is about calories. Well in this article i'm going to give an analogy that helped me understand the basics and hopefully it can help you too.


It was recently published by Yahoo here is the link enjoy: 
Understanding of How Basic Calories Work

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Breaking Down Weight Watchers

Weight Watchers, why does it work for some people meanwhile it does absolutely nothing for others? It has even been said that a few people didn't even exercise while on it and lost weight. So how is it possible people would yield such different results?


The article is now published by Yahoo click the link to view:
Breaking Down Weight Watchers on Yahoo

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Nagging Knee Pain

This article is about a constant issue many people face either all the time or once in awhile in there lives, nagging knee pain. I'm not a medical professional, but I am a personal trainer whom has dealt with this issue many times. The good news is 8 times out of 10 I've fixed this issue for people. The extent of knee pain is rarely serious and not all that complicated it's more about fixing our bad habits. This article should enlighten you on these bad habits we are all guilty of committing.


The article has recently been published with Squidoo here is a link to my first published article: http://www.squidoo.com/nagging-knee-pain

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