Tag: #thebreakroom

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • How To Talk To Clients About Nutrition

    Working out and nutrition go hand-in-hand and no matter your distribution of clients, questions about food and what they should be doing will inevitably arise. You do not have to be certified to have a rational conversation with a client about their nutrition. In fact, just by being a Personal Trainer, chances are you are…

  • Coaching Cue: Push The Big Toe Down

    This is one of my most utilized cues. In any given exercise, our feet may be the only structure in contact with the ground. If they are not stable, the entire kinetic chain will leak power. By Pushing the big toe down, your client will create a strong arch in their foot. This will instantly…

  • Separating Training and Therapy

    The gym is a great place to improve your mental health. Many people go to the gym and workout with that in mind. However, trainers and gyms are not rehabilitation centers or the solution for all mental health problems. There are issues that no number of squats and deadlifts can resolve. Often, trainers find themselves…

  • Sleep, Recovery, and Physical Therapy: The Science Behind Sleep

    Ah, sleep. The one thing that we know reaps enormous benefits, but so often gets neglected. We are  always well-intentioned with sleep, but sometimes you just HAVE to watch the next episode of the TV  show you’re watching that just left you on a cliffhanger (I’m talking to you Yellowstone). As the saying  goes, “abs…