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The Fitness Industry

A Quick Aid To Filtering Out Fakes

by coachjon on August 22, 2010

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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 [...]

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One Problem With Online Attitudes

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by coachjon on May 5, 2010

As people who are interested in maximizing our health and life, we have to beware of what I call the “online attitude”. That attitude is that we can get whatever we want for free. Download free music, movies and books. Take whatever you like, it is easy to get whatever  you want. Besides the legal [...]

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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 at all the outdoor fitness bootcamps, how about kettlebells, how [...]

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Does Equipment Matter In Personal Training?

by coachjon on February 13, 2010

Although the quality of the coach who designs your personal training or weight loss fitness program is the top priority, I would admit that the quality of your fitness program design is influenced by the tools available to the coach. Imagine…If you only gave me a 5 kg dumbbell, I would run out of useful [...]

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Where am I? – Continuing Education Jan 2010

by coachjon on January 19, 2010

I have been away from home for 11 days! Every day is 10 hours of lectures and training. Specialized training for stressed people, ladies, children and how to heal back injuries. Coming up over the next 7 days – nutrition and detox, anatomy and power training Am doing my best every night in the hotel [...]

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I will be away for more than 2 weeks starting tomorrow. I will be another set of 25-30 hour trips to the Rhode Island where the temperature is currently -2 to -8 deg C… I’m not even sure I have the right clothes for this! But its ok:) all for the love of knowledge. There [...]

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Have you heard about these glyconutrients being sold in Singapore? Apparently they are great for your health and are so recent that few people even know about them! (The biblical saying “there is nothing new under the sun” comes to mind…”) The idea is that there are “essential sugars” that we all need for optimal [...]

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I was very troubled to read this news report about the trend among young people in Singapore. They love to be thin, not just “not fat” but really really thin. There are problems with this. To get that thin you need to starve yourself. And the “method” of slimming these guys/gals use is not safe. [...]

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Many of the clients who sign up for our personal training programs or athlete performance programs, want to do better in a marathon or triathlon. There is of course nothing wrong with that in itself. If you do these activities for personal satisfaction, or for a good cause. But really…long distance activity isn’t that hard [...]

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There 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 wise train of thought… The purpose of training in the [...]

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