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A Guide to Training with Shoulder Pain for Personal Trainers & Strength Coaches

General Guidelines for Training with ANY Injury 1. Refer out! We are strength coaches and personal trainers, NOT doctors. We do not make medical diagnoses. Anything that is painful, please refer out to a doctor or specialist in your area. Do your best to make this person a part of your network as it’s about helping […]

A Guide to Training with Knee Pain for Personal Trainers & Strength Coaches

A Guide to Training with Low Back Pain for Personal Trainers & Strength Coaches

Do We Need Another Certification?

The short answer is no. We don’t need another multiple choice test, we don’t need a weekend course on how to use the newest training tool and we don’t need to prove our merit as a coach by performing in a fitness challenge. What the fitness industry needs is a definitive standard of practical competency to license its […]

How We Coach and Progress the Squat

“Squats can do more for total mass and body strength than probably all other lifts combined. Doing them wrong can do more damage than probably all the other moves, too. The goblet squat fixes all.” – Dan John This coaching entanglement is something that we have faced up to and tackled willfully at Mike Boyle Strength & […]

Training to Prevent Hamstring Injuries

Of all gait related injuries hamstring strains have the greatest rate of reoccurance with as many as 1/3 of injured athletes suffering re-inury with the first few weeks following return to sport.” -Tom Michaud Statistically, hamstring strains are one of the most common soft tissue injuries in all of sports. Oddly enough, I rarely see hamstring strains […]

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