Athletes Training

ShareMany of the clients at the Genesis Performance Center play a sport of some kind. Because many of these clients are highly motivated types of people, they often play these sports competitively and want to do as well as possible in tournaments. The level of ...

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ShareI have just finished a phase of “cluster” training. Clusters are a fairly advanced training method that allows a person to do more repetitions at a higher weight than normal programs by taking short rests of 8-12 seconds between repetitions. I used this for the ...

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ShareKettlebells have taken on alot of publicity in Singapore. In fact I have people who come into our gym for a consultation for personal training and ask “do you all teach kettle bells”… As a personal trainer and sports performance coach, I am often asked ...

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ShareChains are used sometimes during a year to make the exercise different. It makes your body accelerate the movement fast because you have to “outrun” the chain as it makes the weight harder and harder on the way up. This was a simple non maximal ...

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ShareHere is my workout for today, its the end of a strength development phase of 15 days. I managed to do 125kg for 3 reps on the bench press and today worked up to 140kg for 1 fairly easy rep. I tried 147kg but did ...

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ShareOne of the keys to proper program design is to test the attribute you are training to see if you are making progress. In this last 15 days I have been working on strength in the 3 rep range. 5 days ago I managed a ...

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ShareThere is a school of thought that says you should train to maximize difficulty without regard for techinque (let technique deprove as the workout progresses because it’s not as important as making things “hard”). I don’t believe this is optimal. Here is the logical and ...

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ShareStrength has a positive correlation to EVERY other physical attribute. That means, if you are strong, it helps you be quick, run fast, jump high, have better endurance, speed, and everything else. That is why any good training program should have phases where strength is ...

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ShareYou would be amazed how few personal training programs in Singapore have NO SYSTEM for helping clients learn about nutrition. That is simply madness. There is no way to “out-train” bad eating unless you are a full time athlete training 4-5 hours per day. Teaching ...

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ShareWhen I join a basketball tournament,  I am now an athlete “in-season”. I may play up to 4 full court games in a weekend. There are 2 common mistakes athletes (and unfortunately… coaches as well) make during sports season time. They either… Stop Strength training ...

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