The Bandaid Approach

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Deal with Reoccurring Injuries At The ROOT of the Problem

When you have an injured shoulder, you’d think to address the shoulder. So you get a massage, roll it, stretch it etc…  and it starts to feel better. But it just keeps coming back. We’ve all been there, having to deal with nagging shoulder pain, back pain, or knee pain. We work them out, it feels good, we push it, and then boom, there it is again!

The problem is that you’re more than likely not addressing the root of the injury. You may feel the pain in a specific spot and deal with it directly, but that’s a bandaid approach. If you want to make an impact, look beyond the pain and go to the source. Sounds really confusing but trust me, it’s simpler than you think.  [Read more…]

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The Simplest Way to Coach- Shut Your Trap

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“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
— Confucius

Throughout my career, I’ve had the pleasure to work with literally every age and skill level. These experiences taught me that you MUST adapt your coaching to each athlete. However, while there are individual learning styles, there should be a [Read more…]

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The Art of Coaching

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the art of coaching

I read this quote the other day and it made me think about how I’ve developed as a strength and conditioning and personal trainer in NYC.

In my earlier days, there was a lot of pressure on me for my athletes to perform. So I focused HEAVILY on building my programming knowledge and eye for coaching.  There was a lot of pressure to succeed through my [Read more…]

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Dogmatic Coaching

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Dogmatic Coaching

I really like the stages of coaching Mike Boyle had posted a few years back. Don’t take it literally though, every performance coach and personal trainer’s path will be slightly different and go through various principles but then HOPEFULLY they’ll come [Read more…]

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Importance of Coaching Experience

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If you want to become a great coach or personal trainer you need to be groomed to be a coach or a personal trainer. Far too often people see online personal training certifications or shaky 6 month personal training schools and think it’s going to give them all the knowledge they need to know…because you know they’ve been lifting “all [Read more…]

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Can’t Out Train a Bad Diet

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NYC Personal Trainer

Photo by rtomazela

Now that’s it’s summer people are really trying to hammer down their “summer physique”. I love seeing New Yorkers dedicate themselves to fitness despite this heat wave. The determination to hit the gym and work hard seems to be at it’s peak right now. Day in day out, I see many New [Read more…]

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