If you open up social media these days you will find 1000s of beautiful people, all super excited to workout and eat right. “Wow, thats how it works. Give it 1000% every day, every minute or it will not work. Now I feel overwhelmed, I might as well give up.” Relax. NOBODY is always […]
When people put together a workout, they usually think in terms of exercises. Now, that is not necessarily all wrong, but it does pigeonhole you to an extent. Instead of simply moving from machine to machine, think in terms of muscles you want to train. In the end, your gym success will depend on how […]
It is this time of the year and we all want the fat to disappear! So people jump on the treadmill, cut the carbs, start using fat burners etc. So all is well? No, this approach will make you fatter . Here are the 5 cardinal sins of dieting 1. Doing everything at once such […]
Due to my astounding success I am always being asked: How can one be a successful personal trainer/ fitness professional? As I am thinking about this it appears that there are two layers to it. 1. The more technical aspect on how to build a career that will enable you to enjoy a decent living. […]
HI, Whether you like the show or not, it is hard to escape Games of Thrones. So why not take a look at the most physically impressive character on the show , the Mountainaka Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson the worlds strongest man. As it so happened, I ran into him late last year at a powerlifting […]
Bulking aka the attempt of building muscle through eating more calories and lifting weights often gets butchered and leads to very unsightly bodies. So what are the biggest mistakes one can make when bulking? 1. Running a dirty bulk A dirty bulk is simply another word for ” get the golden dunking donuts card and […]
After speaking to a few new clients in my personal training business this week, I figured that there is a lot of confusion out there in terms of what is needed to get in shape so I shall attempt to clean up the 10 biggest misconceptions. 1. You need to throw up when training When […]
One question you always get being a personal trainer in NYC is: what are the best fat burners? And that is a good, after all who would not like to get rid of all that blubber by taking a pill? But the questions is: do fat burners work and if so which ones are […]
This newsletter was meant to go out last week, but the timing seemed off. So, we missed the anniversary of the gentleman in the picture. Who is he? For starters, the owner of the biggest cojones in history. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg was the ultimate alpha male. Highly educated, multi lingual, driven, hard working, […]
Hello again, Remember Charles Atlas and his program? He incorporated some self-resistance exercises, such as pitting one limb against the other, to maximize muscular output. While he was certainly a pioneer in physical exercise, things have changed a bit since then. There are three ways a muscle can perform work: concentrically, which is pushing or […]