Random Friday Thoughts: 3/12/10
1.I spent about 2.5 days in Las Vegas earlier this week to present at the NSCA Personal Trainers Conference. I really enjoyed the event, as it was a chance to interact with a lot of new people (I don’t speak out west very often) and hopefully help some enthusiastic, up-and-coming trainers add to their skill [...]
The Top 10 Mistakes Intern Applicants Make – Part 2
In my last blog post, I talked about the professionalism side of things with respect to narrowing down our applicant pool for Cressey Performance internships. Today, I want to talk about a few more things an applicant can do to separate himself/herself from the remaining pack at final cuts.
Mistake #6: Not reading – You can [...]
The Top 10 Mistakes Intern Applicants Make – Part 1
At Cressey Performance, we have a few interns in the spring (1/5 – 5/10), summer (6/1 – 8/30), and fall (9/1-12/23). Over the past three years, this internship program has “kicked out” some coaches who are doing great things in the industry, including names you’ll recognize like Brian St. Pierre (who we wound up hiring [...]
Stuff You Should Read: 3/9/10
I just got back from speaking at the NSCA Personal Trainers Conference in Las Vegas, so I’m a bit short on content as I play catch-up now that I’m back in Boston. Luckily, Bill Hartman put together an excellent two-part series on femoral anteversion as it relates to hip mobility. Check them out:
Hip Mobility: Femoral [...]
6 Dirty Tricks to Instantly Increase Muscle and Boost Performance
When we were seven, my friends and I loved to eat spinach. Not because we liked the taste. God no. Raw spinach tasted like, well, leaves, and the goop we’d spoon out of the can was vile, smelly stuff. No, we ate spinach because Popeye ate spinach.
It made him instantly muscular and [...]
