I want to talk to you about one of the most important components of ANY workout. Its something we are all very familiar with, in fact we do it every day. Its all about our breathing, our breathing can make or break our workouts and I am going to give you some tips from my personal experiences that I have used with my clients to help you better your breathing and improve your workouts. Alot of times when we get into our workouts, we tend to focus harder on our form and just getting it done. During all of that we lose track of our breath control, during some sessions with my clients they continually hear me tell them “three seconds in three seconds out”. I preach this que all the time whether it was on the Paloff Press, Wall-Abs or even good ol’ Dead-Bugs. Now your probably wondering why three seconds, what makes that number so important. The reason is it gives you something to focus on and its a good enough of a time that is easy to count even during a high intensity workout. The focus of this is to regain control of your heart rate and to work the lungs as well. The way we breath has been shown to affect our effort, whether it be helping maintain proper posture during an exercise or even cranking out that last rep it all comes down to how we breath. Using the three in three out que can help you control and own the movement as well as allows the body to work our stabilizers and overall bodies even harder to help growth.  Now how do we really control that breathing pattern to get to most out of our workout? The key is, on the least strenuous part of the exercise, fill our lungs up with as much air as we can and when we are ready to push out the hardest part we slowly exhale giving our body that extra help on each rep. For example if we go to do a chin-up we start at the top of the bar and we would IN-hale all of the air into our body on the way down preparing our body to get back up, then on the way up we would exhale that air out of the body giving our body that little boost to help us up. These little steps can help us get the most out of our efforts and really help us become masters of breath control. Stay motivated my friends

Awh man here we go, another guy blogging about “fitness and health”….. well you are only half wrong. Im here because I want to try and help as many people as I can. I plan to post from tips for working out to coaching advice and even the occasional random post (probably about hiking… like look at that awesome view!)

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Here we are coaches, walking into the gym and getting fired up to change some lives yet again! Or are we, are we taking the time out to find new and better ways to improve our clients. Not just in exercising but in helping them understand the exercise as well. Are we taking the time out to make sure we are giving them EFFECTIVE cues and not just spewing out words that go in one ear and out the other. Sure to us these cues make sense but have you personalized it to them just like you do their programs. There are three quick ways that can help you take your cue’s to the next level and help your client conquer these exercises.

1. Break it down barney style. you do not want to over load the client with overly technical cues, nor do you want to overload them with a lot of specific cues at the same time. Being technical has its place with our clients and cues are normally not the place, it needs to be simple and specific so that the client can understand on the spot.
2. One stage at a time.Target one corrective at a time, focus on the most crucial and drive that cue to heart, then start sending out the cues one by one for the specific corrections. Overloading the client causes your cues to loose their value. Be patient and focus on the foundation for your client and the form will fall in place.
3. BE CONFIDENT! This is so important with EVERYTHING you do with a client, your confidence is such a powerful tool to help your client trust you and feel safe with you. be confident in what you are cuing because you KNOW it is only to help them and they will not only hear that from your tone but feel it as well! 

Taking the time out to help fine tune these three simple yet VERY important methods will take you to that next level of coaching and most of all take your clients training to the next level. Thanks for the read and as always stay motivated my friends.