by coachjon on September 3, 2010
I was in Sweden over the last week on a private internship with coach Poliquin for personal trainers and fat loss specialists. We learned alot about the customization of nutrition and training for rapid fat burning. One of the main things that I learned that has already helped me customize my own supplementation methods, is [...]
by coachjon on August 25, 2010
Learning is a continuous process and it is necessary for excellence. After all, it has been estimated that in most fields, knowledge doubles every few years. Those who don’t learn get left behind. This is especially true in the fitness, and health arena. This week I will be off again to the Eleiko Barbell factory [...]
by coachjon on August 24, 2010
Dear Reservist Unit Commander/PE Teacher, Hi, my name is LTA (NS) Jonathan Wong, in my “civilian” job, I own a fitness and sports training facility called the Genesis Performance Center. It is a world class training center that is without equal in Asia. Over the last 12 years coaching, I have noticed that a larger [...]
by coachjon on August 22, 2010
The Singapore health and fitness industry is (unfortunately) well known for scams, fakes and frauds in products and information. Unfortunately, much of this mis-information is passed along by well meaning people. But when it comes to your health, your fitness and your results, it can be hard to tell the truth from the fakes especially [...]
by coachjon on August 17, 2010
Recently I was asked a lot about the range of motion that we should have in training. “why do we use exercise A rather than B?” etc. Here is what both clients and personal trainers need to know about range of motion. You need to know that there are three different ranges of motion (ROM). [...]
by coachjon on August 6, 2010
As you know from my previous posts about how training program design and sticking to tempo are important, our staff who run both the group training fitness bootcamp programs, and the personal training programs at our personal training and health center are very picky about not just exercising for the sake of exercising, but focusing [...]
by coachjon on July 29, 2010
NOTE: Most of my caucasian and foreign friends can’t stand the smell of durians, so this post may not apply to them. I remember on a trip with a basketball team from the USA a few years ago, our coach, a 6 foot 4, 120kg man ran out of his hotel room like he saw [...]
by coachjon on July 24, 2010
Quite a number of the personal training and fitness bootcamp clients at the Genesis Performance Center are Muslims. And in August, they begin their fasting month. Most of them would still like to exercise to maintain their strength and weight loss / fat loss results. Last year I wrote about what to eat and how [...]
by coachjon on July 20, 2010
After writing about what to put into a home gym setup, here is a picture of what I actually have in my house. Cybex Adjustable Flat to 80deg incline Bench Fat Grip, rotating handle Adjustable Dumbbells Bunch Of olympic size plates to go with the dumbbells, up to 60kg per dumbbell (only some of the [...]
by coachjon on July 18, 2010
Quite a number of our personal training clients come to us because they have not been able to get the results they desired from other personal trainers or online fitness programs. One of the most lacking things that I have seen from these ineffective programs (if they are written down at all! – you will [...]