I am often asked about building bigger arms. So many guys will destroy themselves in the gym with set after set for biceps and triceps, taking everything to failure and using every high intensity technique known to man. Unless you have the recuperative powers of a small elephant this is NOT the way.
Instead we often […]
An interesting conversation from my personal training group on so called functional training…I’ll kind of give my opinion away from the very start when I ask “functional for what?!”. Balancing on a bosu ball is a good part trick but it never made anyone strong, lean or fast!
Q: Im interested in functional fitness it seems […]
Periodically I am moved to write a few words about what makes a good personal training client. Yes, thats tight, not what makes a good personal trainer, but what a client him/herself actually needs to meet with the success that they pay their hard earned money to achieve.
One of the nice things I genuinely […]
The following is the second part of an ongoing discussion on post workout nutrition from my London Personal Training Q&A Group:
Question:
My knowledge of the topic (post workout nutrition) is not that vast but I do find it interesting. For me adding muscle is a mix of science, art and experience there is not one formula […]
Jake Hill is one of the leading personal trainers in the USA and we are lucky enough at Ultimate Performance to have use of his many and manifest skills when he visits us here in London. Not only is Jake a great guy with strong enough personality to deal with me in the gym […]
I was reminded by a personal training client today that success in the gym, or with any fat loss or bodybuilding regime for that matter, is a matter of small incremental steps forward. Of course I already know this - no one who has built a physique of their own can help but know […]
Successful personal training clients all share one commonality.
Its not great genetics for fat loss or muscle building. Its certainly not starting fitness levels. And if it were nutritional savvy then I don’t think I would have ever had a solitary personal training success. In fact, given the paucity of nutritional know how here […]
Charles Poliquin’s unique and truly groundbreaking Biosignature Modulation analysis has allowed us to pinpoint our personal training clients’ hormonal imbalances and refine their exercise, nutritional and supplementation programmes to an unprecedented level. If there is one key thing that I have learned about the body in the last 5 years it is Biosignature analysis and […]
A constant theme of my life seems to be questions about what makes a good personal trainer. I am especially asked this of bodybuilder personal trainers - perhaps because the bodybuilder is a relative rarity in London so they stand out for scrutiny more, or perhaps even because some members of the public […]
Calling all personal trainers in London!
It seems that there is a real shortage of good personal trainers in London these days. Try as we might to find the best trainers for our expanding business, we are struggling to find any really outstanding new candidates. Perhaps because I have always tried to […]