Category: The Break Room

  • Buttwink – Assessing Stability

    Addressing the ‘butt wink’ with your clients🤔 This tends to be one of the tougher problems to solve in a clients squat. Why? Not just because there can be a variety of answers client to client, but often… clients can have a really strong or heavy weighted squat with a butt wink and report no…

  • The End of One Thing, Is Really Just the Beginning of Another

    2024 is coming to a close, and I am grateful to be writing another note of thanks to all those who read and share this blog. Though the last few months have been quiet in writing, the blog has still successfully had lots of visitors and I love to see these coaches and practitioners still…

  • The Power of Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT) in Fat Loss and Better Health

    When most people think about losing fat, their minds usually go straight to hitting the gym or going on a strict diet. But there’s another piece of the puzzle that’s just as important and often overlooked: Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, or NEAT for short. NEAT covers all the little ways you burn calories throughout the day…

  • Rethinking Mobility

    “You need to work on your mobility.”- Every coach, trainer, PT, etc. We’ve all said it before countless times. But how many of those times were weaccurate? Did we say it because it’s the easy scapegoat, or because we know without a doubt there is a specific issue? Is static stretching really the answer to…

  • Coaching Cue: Protect Your Pits

    The elusive lat muscle. There are a million and one ways to cue how to access your lats and sometimes clients still struggle to engage each rep. “Protect your pits” is a quick easy saying to add to your arsenal of cues for lat engagement. The Latissimus Dorsi muscle is a large muscle spanning across…

  • Coaching Cue: “Exhale Through The Hard Part”

    “I never know how to breathe” is a common thing I hear when coaching. Each movement may require a different breathing strategy for the client. It’s your job to assess that, and coach them on how to breathe. How much tension do they need? Is the movement compound or isolated? How heavy? Any physiological considerations?…

  • Sometimes Not Helping is Most Helpful

    Here at Iron Legion, we have a strong network of providers we trust when our client’s need something that is beyond our scope of practice. This blog by Dr. Phil Finemore is a great topic to discuss. Ultimately as coaches, we all have one goal in mind, which is to help the person in front…

  • Coaching Cue: Listen

    Something that has not been touched on a lot here in the blog is the art of coaching. Yes, we want to be technically trained, and we absolutely need to seek continuing education in order to better our technical knowledge. BUT there is one skill in coaching that stands out for all the greatest coaches…

  • Improving The Monster Walk 

    Dr. Phil Finemore is TBR’s first repeat featured blogger! Dr. Phil is the owner of Workfitme Mobile PT. Thank you Phil for sharing your expertise and coaching cues. Read on for Phil’s very helpful cues to engage the glute med. And be sure to check out his podcast Strength For A Purpose. The Monster Walk.…