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Little boxes

*Yoga makes you flexible *Strength training makes your muscles stronger *cardio makes your heart stronger The body really does not care how you categ..

There’s a popular saying; ‘Do your own research’ or ‘Do your homework’ or ‘Figure out what works for you’

But in an era of cherry picking, echo chambers and confusing anecdotes for evidence, you are much more likely to find yourself well and truly lost or..

Goals evolve

Goals change with age. But I’ve stopped framing goals. I chase skill and adaptations. I’ve seen my goals go from training for vanity to training ..

The value and context of an exercise

If you ask a bodybuilding coach the value of hip rotation, you might get a shrug and a talk about hip abduction, adduction and flexion.If you ask a po..

The difference between coaching, instruction and motivation

Instruction: * Do this like this Motivation: *Let’s do this ! Coaching: *Here is what you need to do. *This is how you do it. *This is how you should ..

The distinction between coaching and training

In our gym and online, we try operate in this nebulous zone between getting out of the clients way when they are training and intervening only when w..

Muscle misnomers

1 Force produced is not solely dependent on the size of the muscle. This is self evident if you watch sports, athletics or martial arts. Pudgy cricke..

The most unlikely business advantages (for a gym)

1 Being on time. Let’s take our online service. We’ve conservatively run atleast 5000 hours of group classes. We’ve had a late start during 2 hours on..

Motivation is often messy

In 2003, a girl I liked in school commented how good Nikhil Chinappa’s biceps looked. The shame of my puny biceps sent me scrambling to the gym. In re..

Taking pride in being a coach

The trainer or coach is seen as a fairly lowly job by most Indians. This is a shame. When I visit gyms outside of mine, I see clients treat their coac..