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Farmer’s Walk Complexes

January 21, 2012 By Jonathan
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By now steady-state cardio is vilified by most personal trainers in favor of conditioning. Great! Steady-state cardio’s as boring as Speed 2. (we get it — the G’damn boat won’t slow down. End the movie already!) It can also be more harmful then beneficial if the trainee is malnourished or has muscle imbalances (I’m not [...]

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Leave the gym behind and GET OUTSIDE

January 1, 2012 By Jonathan
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I’ve been working hard lately. The last couple months have been some of the best of my life but also the busiest. Long days and long nights and I haven’t been sleeping well. My mind never seems to shut off. Worse of all I’d forgotten my love for exercise and working out became a chore. [...]

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No Prowler? No Problem

December 28, 2011 By Jonathan
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It really grinds my gears when I see videos or hear coaches speak about the prowler. All this talk about it being an amazing conditioning tool due to its small learning curve and safety irritates me. I get even madder when I see videos of coaches using it in their training — especially with hardcore [...]

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Group Exercise ain’t so bad after all

November 27, 2011 By Jonathan
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My World changed yesterday.  Before I explain, a little history: I’m a personal trainer.  A nitpicky hands on personal trainer in fact.  I’m proud of the study I’ve done and how I’ve been able to apply it with my amazing clients.  I only do private sessions and give them my full attention.  The hour is [...]

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I’m back…

November 18, 2011 By Jonathan
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It’s been a busy month.  If you didn’t notice I launched this site and that, in association with: Training 30 clients a week Writing 10+ articles for this site, the PTDC, and two other high profile blogs Seeing visiting family And tons more, I laid out a whole week and how I coped in this [...]

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