Short for total daily energy expenditure, TDEE is the number of calories one burns in a day. This number is important to know as it gives one a baseline to compare current consumption to and then adjust as needed depending on goals.

Whether you’re new to fitness or a fitness coach, this blog will teach you how many exercises you should do in a workout, plus the specific types of exercises.

However, growing the chest is tough. To achieve this, workouts need to be specifically designed for hypertrophy. This blog will show you how to create a hypertrophy chest workout progression, the best exercises to use, and include sample training programs, helping you and your clients achieve their physique goals.

Before embarking on any journey you need a plan, a direction to guide you to the destination. A fitness journey is no different, you need a plan. Whether you want to hike into your 90s or squat double your bodyweight you need to plan out how you will achieve these goals.

According to Concept2 it is the best-selling indoor rower in the world (not to mention a staple in most functional fitness gyms) and is recognized by competitive rowers as the standard for indoor training.  

Why is this important? Professional fitness coaches not only recognize the differences between relative and absolute strength, but they are also able to utilize these concepts in tangible ways to improve their client’s fitness in relation to their unique strength goals.

When he first started coaching, Samaniego, an OPEX CCP coach, admits he wasn’t sure it would ever be possible to become a professional career coach, but 15 years later he’s an individual design remote coach with two coaches working for him, a career he said: “provides me financial stability and fulfillment.” 

But when you dig a little deeper—although the concept of the movement is the same for all variations of deadlifts in that they build posterior chain and core strength—their subtleties become evident, and can make a big difference.

The train-from-home bug even caught OPEX CEO Carl Hardwick, who started shopping around for some kind of cable system to add to his home gym. And after doing a ton of research, as Carl does, he decided to purchase the Tonal Home Gym, a “revolutionary” way of resistance training that uses electromagnetic tension to create resistance.

So you’ve dialed in your nutrition, followed a strict macronutrient plan, and you still aren’t experiencing results? The solution could be far simpler than you can imagine: chewing your food 32 times every bite.

If you work out first thing in the morning, chances are, at one time or another, you’ve been on the sleepy side and had to drag yourself out of bed with a little extra pep talk and motivation in your head.

Obeying a morning ritual is vital to not only athletic performance but your health as well. Any effective morning ritual sets you up for success the entire day to come. Perhaps the most important reason you need a morning ritual is that it creates a physical rhythm. Cadence and consistency are key to reaching whatever your goals may be.

The bench press is one of the most potent pressing movements you can prescribe to a client. Whether your client is a powerlifter, weightlifter, competitive fitness athlete, or simply looking to improve in general physical capabilities, the bench press is a powerful tool that can improve performance at any level of fitness.  

Every week we get direct messages, emails, and comments asking us “What is the best workout plan?”

If you’ve been around the world of functional fitness long enough you’ve probably heard of Marcus Filly. The 4x CrossFit Games athlete and founder of Functional Bodybuilding is the epitome of blending function and aesthetics. While Marcus stays on top of his training daily (you can follow through his Instagram) he owes a large amount of his success to the work that he puts in outside of the gym.

The landmine press is a diagonal pushing exercise. It features a barbell set in a landmine adapter or pushed against a wall. It can be used as a substitute for overhead pressing, a way to fix asymmetries, and add variation to an exercise program.

While I’m sure their scope is quite broad, the life coaches I know work with their clients to achieve goals, overcome obstacles and make changes in their lives to maximize success, health, happiness, etc. (This is also how the National Coach Academy explains the purpose of a life coach.) 

The amount of experience a client has will determine what their workout program will look like. So whether your client is brand new to exercise or has been exercising for a lifetime, this blog will highlight how often they should workout.

Do you find yourself trying to reinvent the wheel every session while your clients are homebound with access to only a few pieces of equipment? With the Covid-19 quarantine extending for many months, does it feel like you’ve had to throw all training plans out the window? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you are not alone.

“I’d wake up at 5 a.m. to coach the 6 a.m. class, and then make a push through to 9 or 10 o’clock. When I’d finally get a chance to breathe, I’d try to train, but I’d be tired. Then there was a dead part of the day, where I’d do administrative work, and then I’d push through to the evening hours and coach all evening,” said O’Brien, now 32.