Archive for the ‘Sport Specific’ Category

The Aspirations of Ardour

By Gabrielle LeBlanc; Personal Training and Sports Conditioning; New Orleans Personal Trainer. Have you ever wondered what makes an athlete go through such harsh conditions for rewards that just don’t seem worth it? A marathon runner, for example, on the last mile who falls to the ground simply from muscle fatigue, who lifts her head [...]

Know Yourself. Control Yourself. Be Yourself.

By Gabrielle LeBlanc; Personal Training and Sports Conditioning; New Orleans Personal Trainer. Overtime humans have lost the sense of their nature.  They’ve become so caught up in the media and how everyone else wants them to be, and lost who they truly are.  Believe it or not, we are not our careers, partners, friends, kids, [...]

Microperiodization of Speed, Strength, and Muscle; The Ultimate Bench Workout

By Justin Negrete; Madison, Wisconsin Personal Trainer. We all know in order to get strong you need to lift heavy weights. This type of lower repetition, heavy weight sets can increase myofibrillated hypertrophy, which makes muscle more dense . We have also heard of a method popularized by powerlifters in which you lift lighter weights [...]

Creatine and Beta-Alanine; Are they really The ULTIMATE anaerobic combination?

By Justin Negrete Madison, Wisconsin Personal Trainer Contact Justin at Personal Trainer Central As a performance athlete, you want to get the most out of your training and nutrition plan. Supplementation can be highly beneficial if done correctly. By now, most of the weight lifting scene has heard of Creatine, and its performance increasing effects [...]

Let Us Build a Body. No Assembly Required!

By James Lanza Northridge, CA Personal Trainer Contact James at Personal Trainer Central Let Us Build a Body. No Assembly Required! Throughout my entire professional career I have always lived by, taught, educated and promoted one thing – a very important law of fitness called… “Use It or Lose It” Now this probably applies to [...]

How to Ease Post Workout Soreness

By Linda Okwor Marina Del Rey, CA Personal Trainer Contact Linda at Personal Trainer Central Tips to Ease Post Workout Soreness One of the draw backs of working out is the after work out soreness.  The truth is, soreness is a part of working out.  Some can be intense, others a gentle reminder that you [...]

How to Stay Fast, Quick, Explosive and Strong All Year

By Daimond Dixon Personal Trainer in Grand Rapids, Michigan Sports Performance Specialist Contact Daimond To become a better athlete and to constantly improve means that you have to keep your skills sharp. Even if you are a multiple sport athlete who plays a different sport from one season to the next, you can still take [...]

Develop Cat-like Agility With These Speed and Agility Basics

To gain better mobile, cat-like agility, cones can be an integral part in building such a training program. By using cones to set up in various configurations, athletes can gain better cutting and slashing ability, and at the same time make it sports specific. With 6-8 cones and an imagination, several drills can be created. [...]

How to Combine Box Jumps With Sprints

by Daimond Dixon Grand Rapids, Michigan 49512 Contact Daimond: Personal Trainer Central Combining the use of box jumps and sprints provides athletes with a perfect way to increase athletic speed and explosive reaction, at the same time. Plyometric training is very useful for training muscle fibers to react explosively with power.  Plyometric box jumps are [...]

Design Better Training Programs Using These Five Principles

by Nathan Mosher, PT, DPT Personal Trainer: Rensselaer, NY 12144 Contact Nathan: Personal Trainer Central Many times when dealing with a pre-teen or teenager, especially when you are talking about weight training, they just want to hit the weights immediately. While there is no denying that enthusiasm is great, it must be tempered with the knowledge [...]