Author Archives: Bill Victor
Avoid Tricky Marketing For Fitness Resolutions
It’s 2 o’clock in the morning and you can’t sleep. You’ve tried warm milk, non-caffeinated tea, and just about every remedy you can think of to find slumber before your work day begins. Your last resort is to turn on the television with the hope you can find something other than old Bonanza re-runs. As […]
Accountability Model Excellent For Fitness Goals
At our training center, we regularly consult prospective clients by asking the question “What made you choose personal fitness training?” One of the most frequently recurring responses is, “Because I do better when I have to be accountable to someone.” Every year, I notice countless individuals initiating their fitness resolutions in the month of January. […]
Muscular Increase and Shape Requires Intensity
Eaves drop in any gym, and you’ll hear the “regulars” offering theories about how muscle is built. IIt seems as if everyone has an opinion about the best way, to perform the best lift and includes the perfect number of sets and repetitions. I really thought there would be an easy way to get around […]
Muscle Your Way Into Solid Arms
Bombs, cans, egg-plants, guns, bazookas, pipes – just some of the countless terms used to describe probably one of the most sought-after hood ornaments in gyms across America – the arms. The arms serve as the portal by which the back, chest and shoulders are best trained for muscular development. It is for this reason, that […]
Fitness And Dreams Share Same Hope
The underlying message of the evening, in addition to encouraging kids and teens to share and reach for their dreams, was hope. In his address, Webster made it a point to offer a staggering statistic – that 65% of children don’t share their life dreams with their parents or adults. While we can all […]
More To Abs Than Sit-Ups
When I think about the social traumas of childhood, I often reflect on one particular test, perhaps archaic, now called “The President’s Physical Fitness Test.” I can’t imagine this was based on a mandate issued down from the oval office, but none-the less, my Phys. Ed. teacher, “Mr. Ashcomb” took it pretty seriously. Along with […]
Unravelling the Urban Legends of Fitness Training
Eaves drop on any conversation at your neighborhood gym and you are sure to hear purported fitness “facts” that could easily rival Ripley’s “Believe it or Not” museums. Through no fault of the messenger, people frequently believe the things they hear from others simply because they consider the source credible, which in all fairness is […]
Extended Arms Can Be Tough On Shoulders
The longer I work with clients in the health field, the more “tuned-in” I have become to the recurring injuries people must navigate as a function of repetitive motion. Recently, I was talking to a Physical Therapist who shared with me an upward spike of injuries in the number of athletes she sees who play […]
Fitness Trainers Must Practice Within Their Scope Of Care
Plain and simple – personal trainers are not physical therapists, and visa-versa. While both are highly honorable professions that help individuals overcome or mediate injury and ultimately quality of life they are addressed differently and from multiple aspects . Frequently we hear from some of our clients confusion as to how these two professions are […]
Improving State-of-the-heart
It beats about 100,000 times a day and pumps over 2,000 gallons of blood through your body all through over 60,000 miles of vessels and channels throughout your body. It’s latin prefix is “cor” or “cordis” but most of us know it as “the heart.” While literature abounds with articles about heart disease as one […]