Equipment

Fat measurement methods

by coachjon

As we tell all our personal training and fitness boot camp clients at Genesis Gym Singapore. The idea that only weight and height are important for indicating your level of health is (thankfully) regarded as old fashioned and incomplete now. Your level of body fat ...

Adding tools to the tool box

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by coachjon

When it comes to training, there are different tools to gain different physical attributes. Heavy lifts for low reps like squats and bench pressing build strength, fast lifts like snatches and plyometrics build speed and power and higher reps build size. In treatment of injury ...

Although the Singapore gym that I coach at tries to stay cutting edge in terms of equipment (we have 13 new bar varieties on order!). The crazy Singapore schedule means that some of our personal training and fitness bootcamp clients need to do some home ...

My Home Gym Setup

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by coachjon

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 ...

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 ...

I get many requests for “in home personal training“. I often turn down these clients because I won’t lie, training at home usually does not get the same results as training in a fully equipped gym like we have at the Genesis Performance Center. The ...

As many of you know, I am working hard so that our clients get the best possible equipment. In fact by the end of 2010 the Genesis Performance Center Gym will be upgraded with lots of new and better equipment. One reason that I am ...

There is always the question asked ask by people who know that I own a personal training gym and fitness center. “I can’t make it to your gym, what should I do at home?” – Should I buy a TRX suspension trainer like I see ...

These thick grip, olympic size plate loading dumbells are a good purchase for home gyms. They are very good quality dumbbells and they are very versatile. And with the right kind of 5kg plates can go up to 60+kg per side (more than most people ...

Chains are well known as one of the best ways to improve explosive speed when doing exercises like squats and deadlifts because they force the athlete in training to accelerate the bar to overcome the increasing resistance of the chains. The most common way to ...