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strength and conditioning

Recently I was asked a lot about the range of motion that we should have in training. “why do we use exercise A rather than B?” etc. Here is what both clients and personal trainers need to know about range of motion. You need to know that there are three different ranges of motion (ROM). [...]

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Elbow pain is fairly common among people who lift weights hard, and/or practice their sports hard. Tennis, golf, and other racket sports cause pain to the elbow either on the inside and the outside. Soft tissue work on the triceps, pronator teres, and other small muscles of the arms helps alot. The pronator teres in [...]

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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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How To Improve Your Grip Strength

by coachjon on February 14, 2010

Imagine that you are an athlete and your feet were weak. Could you run fast? Or jump high? Now imagine that your hands and grip were weak… would you be able to use those back, chest and arm muscles well? Nope. Grip and forearm training is critical for all athletes. And even for those trying [...]

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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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I recently took a week “off” training as a deload before a basketball tournament (I love training but I had to take my own advice about how to deload for competition!). That means a week of light training and some conditioning work. 5 days from the basketball tournament I tried out a crossfit workout just [...]

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How To Prepare For Sports Competition

by coachjon on July 29, 2009

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 the tournament can range from school leagues to professional (i.e [...]

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There are personal training and fitness bootcamp members at the Genesis Performance Center who are going into the fasting month soon this year. And recently they have been wondering what would be the best way to maintain their fat loss, weight loss and muscle building results that they have gotten. In fact when I was [...]

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Why Power Plate Training Is Not A Priority

by coachjon on July 12, 2009

I recently got a bunch of emails sent to Singapore personal trainers and Singapore strength and conditioning coaches offering a “power plate” certification. Cool name, but for a machine costing about 10,000 SGD per piece it better do more than sound cool. We could set up a decent small gym or home gym for the [...]

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