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Speed Power & Strength Training

Building New Custom Strongman Equipment

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by coachjon on July 13, 2010

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, some of the exercises are very useful for core training [...]

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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 upgrading our dumbbells is that we want the dumbbells to [...]

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Coaching Makes Things Faster

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by coachjon on March 10, 2010

No matter if you are looking for weight loss, fat burning, or improved IPPT or sports performance, coaching makes things much faster and more efficient. Along with less chances of delays or injury. Just over a month ago I attended a seminar/internship with Canadian National Weightlifting Coach Pierre Roy. His method of teaching the very [...]

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Training The Grip Properly

by coachjon on February 18, 2010

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 finger is used, and which type of wrist or hand [...]

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Fitness Trainers In Singapore – Are They Trained?

by coachjon on January 26, 2010

There have been several articles lately on fitness coaching and personal trainers in Singapore. They question the knowledge and ability of personal trainers and they question the lack of standardization in the education of trainers. And so do I! After all, your personal trainer is going to help you take care of your body just [...]

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Best Gym In Singapore Just Got Better!

by coachjon on September 13, 2009

We have been working hard over the past 2 weeks to get Singapore’s best gym, the Genesis Performance Center up and running! We are ready to go and are open for the business of helping Singapore residents burn fat, build muscles and perform to the best of their God given ability! Our personal training and [...]

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A Good Lift Just Before Gym Closing Time

by coachjon on July 14, 2009

I 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 earlier part of my workout, going up to 155kg reps [...]

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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 lift done at the end of this recent training phase.

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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 not make it. With one more strength phase using chains [...]

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After 16 hours of airplanes and airports and another 3 hours of train rides, I arrived in Halmstad, Sweden for Coach Charles Poliquin’s Sports Specific Training course. We will go through 5 days of program design, principles and application of stretching, strength training and periodization for maximum performance in sports. We will learn the approach [...]

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