Singapore Athletic Training

In the month of November, it will be time for continuous education for our coaching team. In addition to the weekly staff training meetings that we hold, our senior training team will flying to all corners of the world to learn from experts in the ...

Another seminar I attended while in the USA was taught by master weightlifting coach Ivan Abadjiev. For those of you who are not into the history of strength training and Olympic sports, Coach Abadjiev is the man who made Bulgaria a world power in weightlifting. ...

I just got back from Rhode Island where I attended the Eleiko Strength Summit where top coaches presented some of their pet topics. These are real coaches, with real athletes and real results. This is an important statement because in the days of the internet, ...

One of the best ways to make sure that the strength you build lifting weights transfers to real life sport performance or activities, is strongman training. While we need not do the exact exercises (or lift the weight!) that the “world’s strongest man” competitors do, ...

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 ...

Training The Grip Properly

by coachjon

Many personal trainers and strength and conditioning coaches miss out on the key to grip training. As I mentioned in my previous grip training post, the key is variety, in the tempo, the exercises, the angles, the weights, the isometric holds, the finger positions, WHICH ...

Many 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 ...

Chains 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 ...

Here 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 ...

One 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 ...