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Love both the split squat AND the emphasis on working the full range of motion! Absolutely great advice!

The Most Underrated Hip Mobility Exercise (Not Stretching) If you’re frustrated not seeing your mobility and flexibility improve, it’s time to not just focus on your prehab and warm up but also how you’re truly using...

Ron’s Gym Petpeeves #3 – The Lat Pulldown:

Okay, this variation of the lat pull down should have died long ago! The behind the neck pull a) puts you in a forward head posture that we should ALL be seeking to avoid as we get older; b) encourages the shoulder to roll forward, causing more poor posture and shoulder impingements, c) has virtually no physiological or functional benefits in terms of muscular development or movement patterns. Finally, while it should never happen with appropriately maintained equipment, I have witnessed a cable break in a gym before. A break while doing behind the neck pulls would be life altering in a bad way.

Lean back a little, fully engage the lats at the beginning of the lift by pulling the shoulder blades back and down, and pull the bar to your upper chest!

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Are you doing your stability ball crunchs correctly?

Ron's Gym Petpeeves: Stability ball situp I'm going to post a video a week for the next few weeks demoing some things I see regularly in the gym that are "less than ideal." First up, the stability b...

Thank you, Dave, for taking time out of your vacation to send me this write-up!

"For the past 6 months I’ve engage Ron to help with my personal fitness training. At 65 and recently retired from a lifelong and somewhat sedentary engineering career, my health was certainly suffering and affecting my quality of life. Moreover, I suffer from COPD and have some significant cardiac concerns.

I would think anyone in my condition would be pensive about beginning a new exercise regime with a personal trainer like Ron. How would it pan out? Would I soon quit due to boredom, pain, injury, lack of self discipline, progress, etc? Would the trainer asses my situation correctly and provide a balanced program that was motivating due to progress made, yet not so arduous that I dreaded going to the gym?

I’m enthusiastically writing this review because Ron has walked the razors edge with me and I couldn’t be happier with how much better I feel, the weight I’ve lost and the body strength I’ve gained.

The most surprising result has been the improvement in my breathing. My pulmonologist says that COPD is incurable and an irreversibly degrading lung disease. That may be so, but after 6 months of the type of exercise that Ron customized for me, there’s no question that my lung volume has increased and my coughing spells have decreased. It’s difficult to express my gratitude for that!!

I’ve made another discovery with Ron as well. Without a personal trainer, I know I’d be solely dependent upon: my own discipline, perceived pain threshold, exercise routine and its planning, etc. Some may be too ambitious and quit soon after, while others aren’t ambitious enough and quit due to life distractions and/or not making enough tangible progress. Ron has provided me with the right balance. He pushes me just beyond my comfort level but I feel great about myself when I walk out the door.

So, in conclusion, I’m providing this glowing recommendation for Ron. He knows his stuff, human anatomy and he’s a creative and affable guy that makes the drudgery of fitness fun, results driven and easy to make a habit of. What’s not to like about that?"

Dave Poulson