Sports performance

Top 5 Ways to Overcome Your Training Plateaus! Hitting a fitness plateau is a common phenomenon. Your strength increases, muscle gains and/or fat loss come to a screeching halt. Why does this happen? How can you get back to achieving fitness results? Why Do Training Plateaus Occur? Unfortunately, overwhelming results will begin to taper off.…

Sports Performance Coach Shares 5 Ways to Sprint Faster The ability to move the body in synch is an extremely undervalued capability. Most people workout one muscle group at a time. They’re strong in single areas, but not when the body is required to move as a single unit. When they try to activate various…

There is no shortage of myths surrounding the topic of women and resistance training. In this article, I am going to debunk 5 of the most common myths and set the record straight, once and for all. Before we get started down our list of frightfully ?awed female resistance training misconceptions, let’s define resistance training.…

Personal Trainer Discusses Benefits of Training During Pregnancy Pregnancy is a time of dramatic changes in a woman’s life, not only physically, but emotionally as well. Many women, especially first time mothers, are in the realm of the “unknown” and do not know what to expect during their 9 months of pregnancy.  The idea of…

The power plate: Vibration technology The power plate, a vibrating plate, which many assume is a gimmick! A machine that looks like a doctor scale on steroids, you stand on it and it stimulates your muscles? That’s right! The problem is not with the technology, but the way it has been used in the past.…

Training Aspects of Voorhees,Nj visit Scranton Knights, a High School Football team, for a Sports performance seminar. July 26, 2013. Voorhees, NJ based fitness and performance specialist Kirill Vaks CSCS of Training Aspects. Took a trip to Scranton, PA to conduct a sports performance seminar on strength, power and speed. He met with the 11-1…

Anabolic Steroids, The good the bad, You decide… One of the articles I recently posted was on natural (everyday substances) testosterone masking agents. Wine, green tea and white tea, were found to have some masking abilities when tested. As mentioned, the breaking news of Lance Armstrong using steroids and being stripped of his 7 titles…

 Kirill VaksFitness and exercise specialistBA, CSCS, ACSM-cpt, NFPT-sns  Take action… Now! Training Aspects Personal Training and Sports Performance: Training Aspects’  personal trainers and sports performance coaches want you to accomplish your goals. You, as the personal training client, are a reflection of our personal training and group training methods! We are here to help you…

In present day sports, performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) but more specifically testosterone, are consistently in the headlines. The current scandal surrounds Lance Armstrong; his titles, the live strong foundation, his legacy etc.  I was reading through my weekly articles and found this one to be fitting.  Kirill VaksFitness and exercise specialistBA, CSCS, ACSM-cpt, NFPT-sns  Take…

How to do more pull ups Problem: I want to do more pull ups! I was sitting in a public area the other day and overheard a young woman asking a guy who, sounded like a fitness enthusiast “ I am very strong and slim, but for some reason I can’t do a pull up,…

Knee Pain, Still want to workout?! When your goal is to lose weight but you can’t do much with the lower body due to knee pain, results seem impossible.  Doing cardio on machines may hurt during the exercise, but what’s worse is that the extra wear and tear can actually have more negative impact in…

Kettlebells have become a very  popular training style in the past 5-10years, in the USA. The Kettlebells, unlike many other popular fads, are here to stay. Besides being one of the most effective ways of training, whether to lose weight or for athletic performance, they can also be used for people with bad knees who…