Emilie Pavey — Personal Trainer Spotlight
Why did you decide to become a personal trainer? I love being active and fitness has always been an outlet for me, it’s what I fell back on during the harder periods of my life. I had the opportunity in 2010 to visit my sister in Botswana while she was living there. At the time, […]
Shoulder Internal/External Rotation Mobility Exercises for Pull-ups
The last piece of relevant corrective exercises to improve shoulder mobility for pull-up progressions is focused on glenohumeral internal and external rotation. Once you have determined what your client’s shoulder joint limitations are from the last blog on how to assess shoulder mobility restrictions you can begin improving mobility by lengthening and strengthening the correct […]
Corrective Exercises to Improve Shoulder Mobility for Pull-Ups
Once you have determined what your client’s shoulder joint mobility restrictions are, you can begin improving mobility by lengthening and strengthening the correct muscles. For each movement restriction of the shoulder that your client exhibits, there is an outlined corrective exercise process you can follow to help improve overall shoulder mobility. Some clients may have […]
Reggie Jewkes–Personal Trainer Spotlight
Why did you decide to become a personal trainer? I was always involved in sports. I played tennis, volleyball, golf, softball and always loved basketball. When I was very young, I really fell in love with fitness as a sport. When my dad worked out and he would say, “Hey! Why don’t you work out […]
How to Program Regression Exercises to Learn Pull-Ups
Teaching a client to do pull-ups, a gold standard exercise embodying bodyweight strength and endurance, is a process. Assessing mobility and addressing restrictions with releases and drills are the first two steps before teaching the actual pull-ups. When your client is ready, implementing a program using progressive regressions is the best way to ensure success. […]
Sandy Smith–Personal Trainer Spotlight
Why did you decide to become a personal trainer? Growing up, I’ve always been active, primarily through dance. When I moved away from home for college – this was the first time I really started going to the gym on a regular basis. I found fitness and working out help me through many situations, whether […]
The Perfect Pull-Up: A Total Pull-Up Prep Program
The execution of a perfect pull-up is the paragon of upper body strength and should be a goal for every personal training client and fitness enthusiast. Many people get stalled out on a weight assistance pull-up machine, never able to go it solo, while others force the movement with poor form and execution, setting themselves […]
Dynamic Deltoids: Understanding and Training the Shoulders Muscles
The deltoids, otherwise known as the deltoideus or shoulder muscle, consists of three distinct “heads” with very different joint actions that, when engaged simultaneously, work together to produce shoulder abduction: the anterior deltoid, the middle deltoid, and the posterior deltoid. Each fiber has a separate origin but they share one point of insertion. What’s remarkable […]
Periodization for Personal Training Clients
Having a solid grasp on how to use periodization programming with personal training clients may be the difference between successfully advancing in training while preventing injury and someone who just “works out” a lot, failing to meet goals and perhaps getting injured in the process. We as trainers should all have a solid grasp on […]
What’s a “Deloading” Week and Does Your Client Need One?
Of the many buzz phrases circulating in the fitness world these days “deloading week” may be one that you may have heard many times, have contextually surmised its meaning, but may be uncertain of its necessity and appropriate application. What is Deloading? As it sounds, deloading week is a carefully timed week of active recovery […]