Online Coaching For Strength, Power, and Conditioning!
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:00 am
Hey guys, haven't posted too much lately, but I'm still training! Mostly though I've been working with clients. I've really tried hard to expand my coaching business this year and it's been a lot of fun and I'm hoping to make it into something that's viable for the long term. I'm still not quite there yet, but I'm getting there!
Anyway, for those who care I'm a formerly NASM certified personal trainer. I worked in the commercial gym setting for a few years, but to be honest that wasn't really for me, so I veered courses several years ago. I've been training with weights for over 10 years now. I'm mostly self-taught but I do have a slight background in kinesiology and nutrition at the university level. My main areas of expertise are strength acquisition, power development/athletic enhancement, general strength & power, and somewhat unorthodox conditioning methods. I've also competed at a relatively high level in powerlifting. My main philosophy these days though is to be healthy and well-rounded. In my own training I'm biased towards strength, but not to an excessive degree. I also greatly prioritize running and jumping as well as possessing sound overall movement capacity, a high general work capacity, and a solid base of conditioning year round.
Currently, I offer both comprehensive online coaching as well as customized training programs. With the comprehensive coaching I take care of all facets of the training for the client, that includes providing an in depth analysis of lifting technique on major exercises, writing customized blocks of training tailored specifically to the goals of the client, and making adjustments to that programming on a weekly basis as is needed. Clients are also encouraged to check in with me after each week of training and send me video of all of their primary lifts for re-analysis, as well as provide me with their own notes on how each session and exercise felt. I find the combination of video and subjective analysis to be very helpful for determining how to move forward. Lastly, full time clients are also free to contact me whenever with any questions or concerns that they run into.
With the customized training programs, it's just that. I have a questionnaire that I have each client fill out and with the information that they provide me I'm able to put together a fully customized training program tailored specifically to their goals in the gym. Currently, I offer this in either 8, 12, or 16 week cycles, with the 16 week programs being split up into 2 distinct 8 week blocks.
Lastly, I'm also currently in the process of finishing up a few program templates. These are generic programs (not customized like my other programs), however, they stand out because they are templates that can be re-used almost indefinitely with an almost infinite amount of permutations to them. So in this case, I am providing a program that's all laid out in terms of sets, reps, progressions, and categories of exercises, but the actual exercises themselves are left blank and there is a large pool of exercises to choose from to fill in the template. I have completed a 16 week novice template, a 16 week intermediate template, and a 16 week late-intermediate template. Those 3 templates together are sufficient to take someone from a rank novice to an essentially advanced trainee and provide them with years upon years of productive training. The final template that I'm working on is a vertical jump program. That one will be a little bit different from the other 3, but it's going to be a solid program.
Anyway, this got lengthier than I wanted it to, but if you're interested shoot me an email at enkiri.elite@gmail.com and I can send you some more information about any of it. Unfortunately, I don't have a web site quite yet, but I'm working on that as well.
Also, feel free to check me out on social media:
www.youtube.com/forestofwolvesgym
www.instagram.com/ape288
You can also check out my training log on this site: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=600
Thanks for reading all this!
Alec
Anyway, for those who care I'm a formerly NASM certified personal trainer. I worked in the commercial gym setting for a few years, but to be honest that wasn't really for me, so I veered courses several years ago. I've been training with weights for over 10 years now. I'm mostly self-taught but I do have a slight background in kinesiology and nutrition at the university level. My main areas of expertise are strength acquisition, power development/athletic enhancement, general strength & power, and somewhat unorthodox conditioning methods. I've also competed at a relatively high level in powerlifting. My main philosophy these days though is to be healthy and well-rounded. In my own training I'm biased towards strength, but not to an excessive degree. I also greatly prioritize running and jumping as well as possessing sound overall movement capacity, a high general work capacity, and a solid base of conditioning year round.
Currently, I offer both comprehensive online coaching as well as customized training programs. With the comprehensive coaching I take care of all facets of the training for the client, that includes providing an in depth analysis of lifting technique on major exercises, writing customized blocks of training tailored specifically to the goals of the client, and making adjustments to that programming on a weekly basis as is needed. Clients are also encouraged to check in with me after each week of training and send me video of all of their primary lifts for re-analysis, as well as provide me with their own notes on how each session and exercise felt. I find the combination of video and subjective analysis to be very helpful for determining how to move forward. Lastly, full time clients are also free to contact me whenever with any questions or concerns that they run into.
With the customized training programs, it's just that. I have a questionnaire that I have each client fill out and with the information that they provide me I'm able to put together a fully customized training program tailored specifically to their goals in the gym. Currently, I offer this in either 8, 12, or 16 week cycles, with the 16 week programs being split up into 2 distinct 8 week blocks.
Lastly, I'm also currently in the process of finishing up a few program templates. These are generic programs (not customized like my other programs), however, they stand out because they are templates that can be re-used almost indefinitely with an almost infinite amount of permutations to them. So in this case, I am providing a program that's all laid out in terms of sets, reps, progressions, and categories of exercises, but the actual exercises themselves are left blank and there is a large pool of exercises to choose from to fill in the template. I have completed a 16 week novice template, a 16 week intermediate template, and a 16 week late-intermediate template. Those 3 templates together are sufficient to take someone from a rank novice to an essentially advanced trainee and provide them with years upon years of productive training. The final template that I'm working on is a vertical jump program. That one will be a little bit different from the other 3, but it's going to be a solid program.
Anyway, this got lengthier than I wanted it to, but if you're interested shoot me an email at enkiri.elite@gmail.com and I can send you some more information about any of it. Unfortunately, I don't have a web site quite yet, but I'm working on that as well.
Also, feel free to check me out on social media:
www.youtube.com/forestofwolvesgym
www.instagram.com/ape288
You can also check out my training log on this site: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=600
Thanks for reading all this!
Alec