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    21 Things I Learned From 21 Days Of Not Training
    Chris K
    • Jan 22, 2019
    • 7 min

    21 Things I Learned From 21 Days Of Not Training

    I was lucky enough to recently travel to Florida to have 20 days of winter sun spreading our time between Disney and Universal with a bit...
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    4 Steps To Learning How To Care For Your Clients
    Chris K
    • Jan 16, 2019
    • 6 min

    4 Steps To Learning How To Care For Your Clients

    Sometimes trainers can start thinking of clients as automatons, dehumanizing them to the point of no longer caring for them as people as ...
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    How To Enter A Strength Sport Competition For The First Time
    Chris K
    • Dec 18, 2018
    • 6 min

    How To Enter A Strength Sport Competition For The First Time

    If you are consider a strength sport competition the idea can be very scary. I feel like everyone should compete in front of people at le...
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    Do You Need To Be A Champion To Succeed In Strength Coaching?
    Chris K
    • Dec 10, 2018
    • 3 min

    Do You Need To Be A Champion To Succeed In Strength Coaching?

    I've seen many a strength coach (including me) moan or bemoan the fact that champion powerlifters get all the clients despite maybe not b...
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    Question Time! How Important Is It For A PT To Be Approachable?
    Chris K
    • Dec 4, 2018
    • 7 min

    Question Time! How Important Is It For A PT To Be Approachable?

    "How important is it to be approachable?" Thanks to Josh for sending in this question via Instagram. Back to the question. Essentially, b...
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    Powerlifting Competition Report: YNE Winter Open
    Chris K
    • Nov 20, 2018
    • 11 min

    Powerlifting Competition Report: YNE Winter Open

    Nathan Berry To give Nathan some context a few months ago he ran across the Sahara Desert for fun. That's the kind of guy he is. He'd nev...
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    How To Strength Train People With Chronic Pain Syndromes
    Chris K
    • Nov 5, 2018
    • 6 min

    How To Strength Train People With Chronic Pain Syndromes

    I have been training people with chronic pain syndromes for many years now and it has been an incredibly rewarding, frustrating, enlighte...
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    How To Stop Other Coaches From Stealing Your Clients
    Chris K
    • Oct 30, 2018
    • 5 min

    How To Stop Other Coaches From Stealing Your Clients

    This is a common worry for Personal Trainers just starting in the industry. So to remove some stress from these people's lives I decided ...
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    How To Steal Another Personal Trainer's Clients
    Chris K
    • Oct 22, 2018
    • 5 min

    How To Steal Another Personal Trainer's Clients

    "Jesus Christ Chris, I thought you were an okay guy. Now you want us to sell out and go around stealing clients like the gym floor is som...
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    Ankles, Knee Cave And How To Fix Them
    Chris K
    • Oct 18, 2018
    • 4 min

    Ankles, Knee Cave And How To Fix Them

    Recently I posted this video about ankle stability, foot arch strength and how they both can contribute towards knee cave in various move...
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    Sleep Guilt, Sleep Perfection And Sleep Anxiety
    Chris K
    • Oct 11, 2018
    • 3 min

    Sleep Guilt, Sleep Perfection And Sleep Anxiety

    I listen to podcasts when I wash up and cook breakfast for my perennially late rising partner Coach V. I've tried getting her up earlier ...
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    What Should You Do When You Aren't Feeling It In The Gym?
    Chris K
    • Oct 2, 2018
    • 9 min

    What Should You Do When You Aren't Feeling It In The Gym?

    It happens to us all. You just aren't feeling it in the gym anymore! You've loved it for years and now suddenly BOOM! You can't be bother...
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    Things To Avoid Once You're A Qualified PT: The Apprentice PT Syndrome
    Chris K
    • Sep 25, 2018
    • 5 min

    Things To Avoid Once You're A Qualified PT: The Apprentice PT Syndrome

    There is a relatively new trend in fitness especially in the UK. That trend is future Personal Trainers apprenticing at a big gym franchi...
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    How Do You Know You Are Ready To Be A Personal Trainer?
    gainsglutesglitter
    • Sep 18, 2018
    • 8 min

    How Do You Know You Are Ready To Be A Personal Trainer?

    This is a question that was kindly sent over by a friend of mine called MIGHTY MORGAN which might be one of the strongest names I've enco...
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    Help! My Body Is Stronger Than My Mind!
    Chris K
    • Sep 12, 2018
    • 5 min

    Help! My Body Is Stronger Than My Mind!

    At work the other day a colleague of mine came up to me and said: "Chris, how can I teach my mind to be as strong as my body?" What did s...
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    PT Mistakes I've Made: Hating Sales And The Sales Process
    Chris K
    • Sep 11, 2018
    • 9 min

    PT Mistakes I've Made: Hating Sales And The Sales Process

    This is something that I have heard many PT's and coaches say. "I hate sales" I was the same. I thought I hated sales too. But what I act...
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    PT Mistakes: Not Doing Movement Assessments
    Chris K
    • Sep 6, 2018
    • 6 min

    PT Mistakes: Not Doing Movement Assessments

    Movement Assessments. An exciting topic and very promising first word to an article that will definitely be full of fun, easy reading and...
    17 views0 comments
    Powerlifting Competition Report: ABPU North West Qualifier 01/09/2018
    Chris K
    • Sep 4, 2018
    • 3 min

    Powerlifting Competition Report: ABPU North West Qualifier 01/09/2018

    It's been a little while since our last competition report so it's fun to get to sit down and write another one especially because I'll m...
    56 views0 comments
    Eurgh! Salads!
    V Court
    • Apr 24, 2017
    • 2 min

    Eurgh! Salads!

    I'm trying to lose weight for my holiday/wedding/birthday etc, so I'm going to eat salad every day. I bet you've said that before. We hav...
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    6 shoulder exercises you're not doing!
    V Court
    • Apr 11, 2017
    • 2 min

    6 shoulder exercises you're not doing!

    What is it about sculpted shoulders that we all crave? Not only do they fill out your shirts giving you a strong frame and widen out your...
    26 views0 comments
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