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Hiring Qualified Personal Trainers

With all the people out there who call themselves personal trainers, where do you begin in the interview process?  Here are some guidelines in order to help you find the most qualified fitness professional. A). Your trainer should be certified by a nationally...

Training Clients with Knee Injuries

Do you know how to train, and deal with a client that has a knee injury, or structural concern? Many trainers simply avoid the issue and work around the injury which needs to be addressed, and as a trainer, you will come across clients with previous and current...

Maximizing Your Positive and Negative Motions for Power

How fast are you performing your concentric, (positive) and eccentric (negative) motions during a particular exercise? Do you emphasize slow negatives, and forceful positive muscle contractions while lifting weights? Regarding weight training for general power you...

Stretch-Flex-Stretch!

So what kind and type of stretching routine do you do? BioMechanix performs PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation), and Passive Stretching on their clients after their training session to improve flexibility. We also teach AIS (Active Isolative Stretching)...

Circuit Training, Super Setting, and Compound Sets.

Athletes often tell me that they are circuit training when they are actually super setting, or compound setting. Lets go over the difference between circuit training, super setting and compound setting. These three types of training programs are different from one...

The Lowdown on Abs

I think that it’s pretty safe to say that almost everyone that works out on a regular basis, all have this one goal in common: To attain ripped, washboard like abdominal musculature.  The problem is that most people go about this in the wrong way.  They think that all...