Soup For The Personal Trainer’s Soul

May 10, 2012

    Everyone is out there to make a buck.  That is not a nasty thing to say.  It’s true.  If you have no money, you’d be living on the street.  Of course, it is great when people have the opportunity to give back.  Sometimes it means giving back to the community and sometimes it […]

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Could Lowering Obesity Mean Lowering Healthcare Costs?

May 7, 2012

I don’t think we need a whole article on this subject to realize that the answer is “yes.”  It would be hard for someone to argue the contrary.  The bigger questions might be why or how.  It is estimated that obesity increases an individual’s health care costs by $1500 annually.  This number is sure to […]

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Do You Need Superman’s Fortress of Solitude For Your Fitness?

May 4, 2012

Unquestionably, the majority of people use the gym to exercise.  However, on the days that they skip the gym because of work or other commitments, they do not workout.  For most people it is an exercise or not exercise scenario.  Either I go to the gym and workout or I go straight home and do […]

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Focus on Fitness, Like You Focused on Your Lego Building

April 24, 2012

I loved building with Lego as a kid.  Now my kids love building with Lego.  We spend hours building sets on wet days.  Some of the sets have so many pieces, it takes multiple days to build the set from start to finish.  We even have one set, the “Attack Cruiser”, that we built a […]

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Is There A Queens Personal Trainer Marketing Magic Pill?

March 17, 2012

Seriously, of all people, you should know better than anyone that there is no magic pill for anything.  Just like there is no magic pill for your clients to get the body they have always dreamed of having, there is no magic marketing that will give you the perfect clientele right away.  Nothing will get […]

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NYC Fathers Need Fitness, Too

March 4, 2012

As parents, and for the purposes of this article, dads, we spend a lot of our time doing things for others.  Whether those tasks are pickups, drop offs, play dates, music classes, sports classes, diaper changes, shopping, cooking or something else on the ever-growing to do list, there are few things that we do each […]

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The Importance Of Good Nutrition For New Dads

February 24, 2012

Congratulations, new daddy! Your new bundle of joy is sure to bring many smiles to your face, along with many sleepless nights. This is why now more than ever, what you feed your body is so important. Keeping up with the needs of a newborn is taxing in and of itself. Add in the stress […]

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Benefit From Stretching

February 1, 2012

Being involved in fitness events and health fairs, I often ask others about their own exercise routines.  After their initial self deprecating moment, they usual express how they want to exercise more, but don’t have the time.  My response is that you have to make time, even 15 or 20 minutes a day, because exercise […]

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Start Your Gym Membership With Confidence, Not Fear

January 26, 2012

Every year at this time people are quick to plop down their credit cards and blindly join a gym that is convenient to them.  The thought crept into their heads in December about getting in shape in the New Year.  I have to get in shape.  Joining a gym is the only way.  While there […]

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Can Your Personal Trainer’s Body Language Affect Your Fitness?

January 22, 2012

In a recent speech by a parenting expert, she said that body language is 55% of all communication. After that, I started noticing people’s body language a little bit more. For example, I began to realize that a salesperson’s body language could determine whether I had a good experience in a store or could make […]

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