Today we are going to look at my only athlete, who’s main focus outside of the weight room is basketball. His muscular strengths right now is his back which, unfortunately, is his downfall as he compensates every movement by attempting to recruit his spinal erectors (back) to finish movements. This athletes brother trains with me...Read More
This exercise is a straight up SOB. Eccentrics are brutal to begin with but when you push them to the limits by doing 10 second eccentrics for 3 sets of 6 on a movement like squats you get a serious back bump and a lot of rolling around on the ground afterwards. Give them a shot...Read More
I tend to be an all or nothing kind of person. I’m constantly trying to find balance in life with the things I do and it’s something I have to work at. For some people it’s never being motivated (see last week’s blog post) and for others it’s slowing down and learning how to relax. For...Read More
What’s up everyone? I just wanted to check back in and give some updates on how my training went this past week with Bench and Deadlift. Wednesday was our day to bench and everything felt pretty good, especially my last set. I worked up to 245 for a single and went up 10lbs each set until...Read More
Now that I’ve got a title written its all downhill from here right? In all seriousness, I’m ecstatic to start up writing with NBS Fitness and begin sharing some of my ideas and experiences. For those of you who aren’t familiar with me or haven’t checked out my bio, I am the provider of on-site chiropractic...Read More
Early morning session are something I have not done in awhile with clients as I was prepping for the 2016 XPC Finals at the Arnold (you can find my write up w/ video of this on EliteFTS). Now that it is over, I am really focusing on how balance all my plates. One of the...Read More
Welcome to my metal song of the week section where I will choose a metal song to metal your face and give you gains. Kicking off we have Disturbed’s new single “The Vengeful One” from their new CD immortalized. There are two things I love about this song: first, is was a their first single...Read More
So a lot of blogs will strictly be about training, methods applied, and rants. I am going to attempt to bring different angles to everyone interested in checking out NBS Fitness and getting to know the trainers. Ill be brining you along for the ride of what goes through my head with goals for clients,...Read More
Blogs are for motivation right? I’m supposed to enter something super motivational and something that will inspire you to change your life and be awesome. Maybe.. but you might not find that here. I’ve honestly never blogged before and I’m really excited to start this blogging chapter of my life.. So here it goes! You...Read More
Alright..We all took a little break from blogging. And by little, I mean that the last time I blogged was on the tail end of 2014, after Memphis’ Strongest Woman Since then… –I moved to Memphis to formally join my homies at NBS. –I dug my feet into strongman training and got pretty good...Read More
Alright, everyone bear with me for the next couple of weeks. Blogging is something that is still new to me and I’m still trying to get a feel for everything. We’ve got a lot of stuff going on at NBS right now. We are moving into our new facility in about 2 or 3 weeks,...Read More
The new facility is coming along great! All the framing and dry wall is up so you can get a really good idea of what the layout will look like. The duct work is all in place as well. Everything looks to be on schedule and we should be in the facility by early to...Read More
As mentioned in my last log post, I traveled out of town to watch the last weekend of horse races in Hot Springs, AK. this past Saturday. Training had to be put on hold since there was to much crammed into one day. I was kind of irritated at first but, it is off season and...Read More
