You may have heard the news. I have left JS Fitness to pursue a few new avenues. One of those avenues involves leasing space and running my personal training business out of a local gym, Limitless Training Centre. And the other avenue involves stepping back into the athlete development world to work as the Head
2020 is coming to an end. It’s been a wild year. I don’t think anyone predicted a global pandemic. And as a self-employed small business owner, it’s been tough. For 2020, JS Fitness (the gym I work at) shut for over 5.5 months. And I lost 2/3rds of my in-person clients. Crazy to think 2/3rds
At the beginning of each year, I make predictions about fitness trends that I see coming. In my previous post, predicting 2020 fitness trends, there were three trends I highlighted; A massive rise in online training, an emergence in large group training, and a surge in gym membership competition. Since Covid-19 is causing a f*cking
It’s 2020. A New Year. New Ideas. New Fitness Trends In 2019, the biggest trend we saw was the emergence of the super cheap gym membership, most notably, your Planet Fitness or Fit 4 Less. Large group training began to make an emergence in 2019 as well, but I think Large Group Training will become
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
The barbell front squat is an exercise I like to use as a progression to goblet squats. It’s an exercise you can load up, while not having to worry about grip strength demands. And it tends to be shoulder (external rotation restrictions) and spine friendly. To perform a barbell front squat, there a few requirements
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