Breaking Tradition – Yasmine Hassan
Breaking Tradition – Yasmine Hassan Yasmine Hassan Breaks New Ground And Helps Women in Saudi Arabia Discover Themselves Through Fitness For Yasmine Hassan, a native of Saudi Arabia, sports and fitness...
View ArticleHow to Program Training For the Creatine Phosphate Energy System
How to Program Training For the Creatine Phosphate Energy System If you want to improve a client’s absolute strength and physical potential, you can’t overlook the importance of training their creatine...
View ArticleHow To Handle Losing a Fitness Competition
How To Handle Losing a Fitness Competition Mike Lee Shares How He Prepares his Athletes to Deal with Loss and Adversity in Competition Losing is an integral part of the learning process in everything...
View ArticleFinding Your Maximum Aerobic Function Heart Rate
Finding Your Maximum Aerobic Function Heart Rate A great way to warm up for training sessions using the TrueForm Runner is with the assistance of a heart rate monitor to equip you with knowledge of...
View ArticleHow to Create a Program Which Balances Training of All Three Energy Systems
How to Create a Program Which Balances Training of All Three Energy Systems An Example of Program Design In recent blogs, we’ve learned how to program to train a Client’s Aerobic System, their...
View ArticleIntermittent Fasting: Its Place in Competitive Fitness
Intermittent Fasting: Its Place in Competitive Fitness Intermittent fasting may sound like an alternative word to starvation, but it’s actually quite the opposite. Fasting differs from starvation in...
View ArticleThere Is No Correct Way To Move
There Is No Correct Way To Move OPEX CCP Assessment Instructor Michael Bann Explains that Function And Goals Always Dictate the Standards of Safe Movement. Movement is something integral to human...
View ArticleThe Importance of Honest Messaging
The Importance of Honest Messaging Ten Minutes of Fitness With James FitzGerald In today’s social media revolution, people are constantly bombarded with advertisements and gimmicks relating to health...
View ArticleWhat Are Strength Speed Contractions?
What Are Strength Speed Contractions? In your studies as a professional fitness coach, you’ve likely come across the Strength Continuum. The Strength Continuum provides a context for classifying...
View ArticleHow to Integrate ‘Touch-And-Go’ Barbell Work into Fitness Program Designs
How to Integrate ‘Touch-And-Go’ Barbell Work into Fitness Program Designs When we observe mixed modality athletes compete in sports like CrossFit there’s usually a barbell involved with copious amounts...
View ArticleHow to Improve Your Clients Olympic Lifting Technique in Program Design
How to Improve Your Clients Olympic Lifting Technique in Program Design Your client’s overall ‘form’ on the barbell matters especially when it comes to olympic lifting. Improvements in lifting...
View ArticleThe Big Dawgs Are Back
The Big Dawgs Are Back OPEX Fitness is excited to announce the launch of Big Dawgs, an evolution of our remote coaching services. The Big Dawgs mission is to provide Individual Design and Remote...
View ArticleHow to Integrate Barbell Cycling into Mixed Aerobic Work
How to Integrate Barbell Cycling into Mixed Aerobic Work In order to ‘cycle’ or move loads and barbells quickly, your clients need to learn how to make complex contractions ‘aerobic’ in nature. This...
View ArticleWhat is Absolute Strength? A Definition for Functional Fitness Coaches
What is Absolute Strength? A Definition for Functional Fitness Coaches Developing a client’s absolute strength is critical to their long-term physical development in relation to their overall goals....
View ArticleWhy Absolute Strength Training is Critical For Your Clients
Why Absolute Strength Training is Critical For Your Clients In a previous blog, we discussed what exactly absolute strength training was and was not, but we didn’t touch on why exactly it was critical...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Relative Strength Vs. Absolute Strength
The Difference Between Relative Strength Vs. Absolute Strength Developing better strength is often a recurring goal of fitness clients. The domain of what encompasses strength training is quite broad....
View ArticleOPEX Fitness and Brand X to Partner
OPEX Fitness and Brand X to Partner Driving the Future of Coaching Education OPEX Fitness and The Brand X Method recently inked a broad partnership to improve their respective coaching education...
View ArticleHow to Identify Absolute Strength Imbalances and How to Fix Them
How to Identify Absolute Strength Imbalances and How to Fix Them Absolute strength imbalances are common to all types of clients. The degree of which depends on that particular clients training...
View ArticleWhy Your Clients Feels Nauseous on the AirBike
Why Your Clients Feels Nauseous on the AirBike In fitness culture, puking in the midst of working out is often perceived to be a badge of honor. Phrases like, “it’s weakness leaving the body”...
View ArticleHow Competitive Functional Fitness is Disrupting the Strength Continuum
How Competitive Functional Fitness is Disrupting the Strength Continuum Background of the Classic Model of The Strength Continuum. The Strength Continuum is the philosophy upon which different kinds of...
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