Patrick Dale

6 days ago | fitnessvolt.com | Patrick Dale

I’m a veteran personal trainer with more than 30 years of experience. During that time, I’ve helped my clients achieve a wide range of goals—from getting fit after giving birth, to losing the weight they’ve gained during middle-age, to improving their athletic performance. However, while I love helping people improve their health and functionality, I also recognize that many exercisers just want to change how they look.

1 week ago | fitnessvolt.com | Patrick Dale

Look around any gym and you’ll see people resting and relaxing between sets of intense exercise. This is part and parcel of strength training. In many cases, those resting lifters will be chatting with their workout partner, updating their social media, or just chilling out to pass the time. Related: How Long Should You Rest Between Sets? However, something you won’t see very often is lifters logging their training in a diary or notebook.

1 week ago | fitnessvolt.com | Patrick Dale

Push-ups are probably the most popular, widely performed exercise in the world. Athletes from almost every sport, military personnel, fitness enthusiasts, and kids in physical education classes all include push-ups in their workouts. Even non-exercisers recognize the mighty push-up, even if they can’t actually do any themselves!Despite this, push-ups are sometimes viewed as a beginner exercise, but that’s not a point of view I share.

2 weeks ago | fitnessvolt.com | Patrick Dale

According to studies, lack of time and facilities are two of the most common barriers to exercise (1). It doesn’t matter how motivated you are—sometimes life gets in the way of your workouts, making it hard to be consistent. Consequently, a lot of people start training programs but are unable to stick to them for long enough to see results.

2 weeks ago | fitnessvolt.com | Patrick Dale

Eating healthy and working out go hand in hand, or they should! What you eat can have a direct impact on your training results. A poor diet can undermine your progress and could even mean you make no progress at all. Subsequently, most exercisers follow an eating plan designed to support their workouts, and that matches their training goal. Unfortunately, there are a lot of diets to choose from, and while some are safe, effective, and healthy, many others are not.