RX'D Radio Podcast

By Juan Pellot

Juan is a coach, educator, presenter and part of the Pre-Script ™ community of coaches.

As a member of the US National team, Juan has won World Championships and successfully coached athletes at a domestic and international level. He holds the rank of Master of sport in 32kg the clean and jerk and held a US national record in the 78kg body weight division.

His attention to detail has helped Weightlifters, Powerflifters, Crossfitters and Kettlebell Sport lifters compete at levels they had once thought out of reach. Juan believes intelligent choices are the key to longevity when pursuing strength.

BREATHING AND THE PURSUIT OF STILLNESS

All movement starts with a decision. You either turn the dial towards breathing or you crank it in favor of bracing. Regulation of breathing and bracing not only has a dramatic impact on your success in performing a task, but in your ability to reduce likelihood of injury. Regardless of how basic or complex the task, if these two...

By Abdurahmaan Saloojee

Abdurahmaan is a Pre-Script coach from Ottawa who loves reading, traveling, and training.

REAL CORE TRAINING.

Have you ever seen videos of people doing endless rope crunches while promising “core” gains? What about fancy X crunches, hanging twists, and other painful looking contortions? If you’ve spent any time on the internet, you probably have. You may have even tried some of them yourself (guilty). What do they really do, and how helpful are they?

The exercises mentioned above can be classified as “abdominal training”. They are not necessarily core exercises. To clarify this, we need to understand the difference between muscle action and muscle function. Muscle action is the way a muscle moves from origin to insertion—very simple. The bicep’s action would be bending (flexing) the elbow. However, function is not as easy. A muscle’s function is how it behaves when we walk and breathe. It can also...

By Sam Barber

Sam is an online fitness coach and personal trainer with 8 years experience in the field. He is based in Brighton, England. He works largely with young athletes looking to build strength & muscle. You can connect with Sam on Instagram @buildwithbarber.

OPTIMIZING YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS

Online coaching is rapidly becoming many coaches' primary stream of income. More scalable and adaptable, it's the obvious way to go for any coach that has already accumulated some experience in the field. With scalability, however, comes an organizational nightmare. Can you deliver to 40 clients online what you delivered to 15 in person? 

Perhaps the better question is, can you deliver to 40 clients what you delivered to 15 in person, without completely losing your mind? Building systems will allow you to manage this growth (and your sanity) more effectively. 

Each system built should satisfy at least one of the following four motivators;...

By James Macintosh

James is an ex powerlifter, online coach, educator and Pre-Script coach. He believes that education is not just theory but, more importantly, applying what we are taught. James takes a detailed approach to the art of coaching by facilitating conversations to improve communication, programming and training protocols for coaches to develop their services.

Personality Profiling for Better Coaching. 

You can be the most knowledgeable coach out there, but if you cannot communicate with your clients, chances are your business will not be around for very long. Knowing how to communicate with each client will help you deliver your services more efficiently and lead to better results - ultimately what the client wants. 

A technique often overlooked and uncommonly used by coaches is personality profiling. The more we can understand your client’s personality type, the more effective we can communicate with them to create greater buy-in. 

...

By James Thayer

James is an Assistant Director of Fitness and Wellness, educator, presenter and Pre-Script Coach. He believes the best approach to learning is to engage, educate and empower individuals and communities. James utilizes coaching, programming, performance and movement proficiency to set a standard for conversation to application. 

Dynamic Assessments

The initial intake assessment sets a foundation in which the start of the program is based on. It offers time to build a relationship with clients, develops cue connections, lines of communication and efficiency of movement. Assessing the movement quality and limitations or restrictions in mobility, stability and strength establishes what should be addressed in the program. 

While the initial assessment is important to the starting parameters of a program design it would be inefficient to conduct the initial assessment at the beginning of every session. This is where a dynamic assessment in the session can hold...

 By Jake Larsen

Beginning with wrestling and soccer, Jake has been immersed in fitness nearly his whole life.  Personal training and studying exercise in college were the natural progression of that passion.  Competing locally in bodybuilding and powerlifting, Jake currently studies exercise at university and does online coaching at Jackalstrength.com.

TFL Function

(and why your stick figure squat is wrong)

You know all those stick figure images on the internet that try to break down the “essential biomechanics of a squat”, or any other exercise?  Have you ever noticed that the people so interested in educating you on the importance of the biomechanical advantages of their stick figure squat positions seem to strangely resemble the stick figures they draw?  Put simply, the stick figure “biomechanics” model is wrong. 

There are no biomechanics to a two-dimensional image, it’s just mechanics (also known as basic physics)...

By: Abdurahmaan Saloojee
Abdurahmaan is a Pre-Script coach from Ottawa who loves reading, traveling, and training. 

“Have you tried trying?” 

This is a Muscle-Doc-ism that makes for a great Instagram caption, but let’s dig a little deeper and understand what this means. This is especially pertinent to many budding coaches getting started in the fitness space that are being confronted with the sheer landslide of information about training for the first time. 

Much of coaching and more specifically, effective programming, revolves around optimizing training. “How can I make this exercise more effective?” “How can I make this workout split better?” “How can I get this client to perform this exercise so they can achieve their goals faster?” As coaches progress through their intellectual journey, they may realize that more often than not, many kinds of optimization rest at the top of the tree: there are...