• 28MAR, 2020
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    6 Exercises to Help Keep Your Low Back Healthy During Self-Isolation

    6 Exercises to Help Keep Your Low Back Healthy During Self-Isolation

    Covid-19 has struck millions across the globe. People are dying; people are losing their jobs and business are being forced to shut. It’s not a pleasant time. And I can say firsthand that I’m beginning to struggle with the closure of our gym, and significant restrictions placed on current online clients.  However, right now is

  • 09SEP, 2019
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    Things to Read to Help Slay Your Day: 09/10/2019

    Things to Read to Help Slay Your Day: 09/10/2019

    Hope you had an awesome week! Here is a new list of reading material I was able to go through in recent weeks and found very helpful. Enjoy! Personal Trainer Salary Survey (2019) Who Earns the Most?: Wondering how much the average personal trainer makes? This is a cool survey that the PTDC performed on

  • 31AUG, 2019
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    5 Tips for Writing an Exercise Program for a Client with Low Back Pain

    5 Tips for Writing an Exercise Program for a Client with Low Back Pain

    Writing an exercise program for a client with low back pain is a challenge. People come to me with a history of discogenic problems, retrolisthesis, facet degeneration, endplate fractures, etc. Each client is unique. And requries a different approach. The discogenic person tends to have a difficult time with lumbar flexion, whereas the person with

  • 27JUL, 2019
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    Exercise 101: Suitcase Deadlift

    Exercise 101: Suitcase Deadlift

    The suitcase deadlift is an awesome progression from a traditional deadlift that provides a lateral core stability challenge. By placing the load in one hand and performing a hip-hinge, we are training the body to resist lateral flexion. I first saw this exercise from Mike Robertson and have been including it in clients program from

  • 13JUN, 2019
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    Things to Read to Help Slay Your Day: 06/13/2019

    Things to Read to Help Slay Your Day: 06/13/2019

    I apologize for being absent of late. Work, travel, friends and family have been taking up time, and I haven’t been able to keep the blog or YouTube channel up to date. I recently came back from the StrongSummit in Toronto, and I thought it was an incredible conference. Learned new material and met some

  • 04APR, 2019
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    Things to Read to Help Slay Your Day: 04/03/2019

    Things to Read to Help Slay Your Day: 04/03/2019

    Are you looking for some new reading material from the world of strength & conditioning and business? Check these recommendations out: 1 Year In: The Self-Employment Experiment – As someone who works as an independent contractor and is beginning to learn about taxes and accounting, this was a timely post by Strength & Conditioning Coach, Dean