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 [...]
by coachjon on December 21, 2009
Part of coaching clients either in our Singapore personal training or fitness boot camp programs, is managing the emotions of fitness. Getting strong, or lean or looking good is incredibly emotional and as a coach we need to handle these emotions. Every Client in singapore who wants to build muscle, burn fat, lose weight and [...]
by coachjon on December 8, 2009
I am very conservative with obese clients. This may seem different from the rest of the blog where there is quite a lot of really serious, maximum performance training going on! But… If a person is very overweight, extra care needs to be taken to ensure safe training. Here are some things to watch out [...]
by coachjon on November 1, 2009
One of the former athletes at the Sports school where I coached formerly is now a DJ and invited me for an interview on health tips. Here is a rough transcript of today’s interview. Q: 1. Tell us a little bit about what you do. I help people pursue maximum health and achieve their fitness and performance [...]
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 [...]
by coachjon on August 19, 2009
Disturbing news from Time magazine last week! In an article called “Exercise does not make you thin”, there is this author who has this “special” idea that exercise makes you fatter. WHOA!! Maybe I’m in the wrong industry If I want to help people! Seriously, I earn a living helping people lose weight, get lean [...]
by coachjon on July 22, 2009
Weight loss, fat loss, and mass gaining are the goals of three major groups of people that join our customized personal training and our group fitness bootcamps. What we do at the Genesis Performance Center is give you a world class fat loss or mass building training program, along with nutrition that is customized for [...]
by coachjon on July 21, 2009
A few days ago there were a few articles on “Today” paper and Channel news asia (here is the online article) about the “evils” of low carbohydrate diets. They are simply incorrect. Here are my thoughts…and what I wrote about in my reply to them. “It’s a shame that there are so many myths about [...]
by coachjon on July 12, 2009
What I am happy to say is that the clients at the Genesis Performance Center soon learn to enjoy the healthy, lean, strong life. But there come times when life just gets in the way. In the last week alone, one client moved his office to a brand new building and it has alot more [...]
by coachjon on July 11, 2009
I have no clue why this is called the “football” bar. But from the point of view as a coach and personal trainer, it is a great piece of equipment to have in a gym or training center. It looks like a normal barbell except that it has handles that are diagonal to the bar [...]