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Showing posts with label new york personal trainer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new york personal trainer. Show all posts
11/25/2012

Your Holiday Survival Workouts

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Welcome to the most gluttonous of seasons.  Just when you need it most, here are a couple of quick workout programs  to help you get the mos...
8/09/2012

Eccentric Exercise. Bigger. Stronger. More Powerfuller. Resistant to Injury.

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No, it's not a blog posting about weird exercises. It's about the ECCENTRIC or negative phase of resistance exercises.  This often ...
7/26/2012

Myths About Perspiration, Fluid Replacement Guidelines, Your Personal Hydration Program

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We're on track for ta hot summer, and with everybody sweating more, many of you have asked about hydration and fluid replacement strat...
2/07/2012

Dirty Secrets of Personalized Training

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When you walk into a gym like NYSC's Wall Street location, you've got over 5,000 pieces of exercise equipment (really!) and more tha...
9/30/2011

Measure, Track and Burn Body Fat.

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Now is the perfect time to get into peak shape. The weather is cooling and the holiday eating season hasn't yet begun. This issue wil...
3/09/2011

The Top 10 Exercises and Stretches for the Office Worker

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Whether you've been lifting weights for years, playing sports, competing in marathons and triathlons, playing basketballs or soccer, or ...
5/03/2010

Interval Training: Burn More Calories. Improve Performance. Reduce Exercise Time.

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Yes this sounds almost too good to be true. Interval Training involves alternating between higher and lower intensity in your cardio worko...
4/30/2010

Special Feature: Interview with NYSC Spin Master Rob Merluza

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A snowstorm in February provided a long-awaited opportunity for me join one of Rob's spin classes at NYSC Wall Street --- his classes an...
9/09/2009

Deep CORE Exercise Progression

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Here is a list of sample core strengthening exercises at each step. I'll be demonstrating them on the gym floor during Cary's Core C...
5/31/2009

Posture and Movement Assessments

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I have a confession to make. From the minute I first see you, I am watching your posture and the way that you move and looking for way to i...

Core Training and Stablility

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There are 29 core muscles that work together to keep the body stable as it generates force, absorbs force, changes direction and moves in mu...

Flexibility

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Muscles need to be in proper balance to work together optimally. Our posture and movement assessments will tell us which appear to be too a...

Advanced Functional/Core Mini Workout

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The following are some selected exercises that some of my advanced clients are doing...you might not be ready for them right now but with co...
3/03/2009

Body Fat: Let's Not Get Carried Away with the Measurements!

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Body Builders and certain competitive athletes may need to obsess about their % body fat, but most of us just need a simple reliable measure...
11/10/2008

The BRAIN TRAIN: Unilateral Workout

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There are several good reasons to work one side of your body at a time, this month the focus in on training your brain - actually your neuro...
10/07/2008

Pre and Post Exercise Nutrition

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Proper nutrition before and after competition or workouts can improve performance and results and in recovery. Many people today are putti...
8/26/2008

EXERCISE, FITNESS AND NUTRITION NOs AND DON'Ts

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by Cary Raffle MS CPT Master Trainer Hardly an hour goes by at the gym that I don't find someone doing something that is not really he...
8/02/2008

The Best and Worst Abdominal Exercises

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Research from the Biomechanics Lab at San Diego State University, commissioned by the American Council on Exercise. This study measured act...
5/22/2008

Muscle Imbalances: Which to Stretch? Which to Strengthen?

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By Cary Raffle Almost everyone has muscle imbalances. A few simple observations and movement tests tell a fitness professional which ...
1/11/2008

Thinking Ahead: Periodization

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by Cary Raffle Whether you're new to exercise or you've been hitting the gym for years, a few weeks from now you might feel that you...