by Andrew Schaeffer | Aug 30, 2019 | Fitness
Are you the kind of person who feels that if they can’t do a full workout, they might as well not do any workout at all? Or, conversely, are you someone who would be willing to do a short workout on the regular if they just knew what exercises would be worth the...
by Andrew Schaeffer | Aug 12, 2019 | Fitness
Question: I found an article that said that the leg press machine is one of the worst exercises you can do. Then I found one that says leg presses are good and even safest, when done right. What’s the deal? Answer: You’ve waded into a debate that many a strength...
by Andrew Schaeffer | Aug 5, 2019 | Fitness
“Oh, I’m really not so sure about that,” she said. ‘She’ is my eighty-four-year-old client and that’s what she said to me in our first session together. We had just finished a set of deadlifts at twenty-five pounds, which felt like a lot to her, and I had announced...
by Andrew Schaeffer | Jul 14, 2019 | Fitness, Social Good
I have an over seventy, female client who owns three kettlebells that she keeps in her building’s gym. They weigh thirty-five, forty-five, and sixty-five pounds. So when one of her fellow tenants complained in a board meeting that the kettlebells in the gym are too...
by Andrew Schaeffer | Jul 1, 2019 | Fitness, Social Good
By Keith Allaway At eight years old I made the first of many poor life decisions. Standing in the middle of our kitchen I took a stab at establishing some independence, telling my mother, who was lecturing me over some minor infraction, that she should “get stuffed.”...
by Andrew Schaeffer | May 27, 2019 | Fitness, Social Good
When you view health and wellness as a journey towards being better, rather than an either/or proposition, you give yourself the chance to finally get somewhere with your fitness endeavors. You Must Learn What Doesn’t Work As my clients all know, I have recently begun...