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3,000,000 Exercise Balls Recalled: Where’s a Top-Level Trainer When You Need One!?!?

Posted on 28. May, 2009 by Doug Groce, CSCS.

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It’s about time someone put a stop to the madness. I’m talking about recall of 3,000,000 fitness balls.

The truth is, this piece of “equipment” can be extremely dangerous if it falls into the wrong hands. It doesn’t take a CSCS to tell you that anything involving a barbell, one or more 45 plates, and a stability ball is probably not a good idea.

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Thanks to BiasTraining from the Super-Trainer personal training forum for this picture – and here are some of the responses:

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THE AFTERMATH!!! Fun, Fitness, And A Whole Lot More At The FITNESS BUSINESS SUMMIT!!!

Posted on 10. May, 2009 by Kaiser.

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It’s been almost a week that I’ve been back from the Fitness Business Summit, the event Bedros Keuilian threw out in Anaheim last weekend.  Over three hundred of the industry’s finest showed up, and with the crowd and presenters included, the whole thing was bananas.
And from my end, things were even more crazy – the [...]

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SUPER-TRAINER INTERVIEW WITH MADONNA!!!!! (Listen To The Killer Audio I Got With The POP DIVA!!!)

Posted on 01. Apr, 2009 by Kaiser.

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Wow – what a day!  Where do I begin? I was headed over to see how celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson’s gym was coming, over here in New York City (she’s the woman responsible for the slim physiques of celebs like Gweneth Paltrow) …
… and guess who was with her?!?!?!
None other than the material girl, MADONNA!!! [...]

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THE HEALTH-CLUB SURVIVAL GUIDE!!! How To Survive The Gym And Move On To Big Things In Personal Training …

Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Kaiser.

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Hey, have you been on the SUPER-TRAINER forum lately?
There’s some good stuff happening over there so check it out. In particular, all of us trainers on the forum have come to a consensus on one important subject …
It’s about whether you should work in a gym to gain experience when you first become [...]

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“ALL MARKETERS SHOULD KILL THEMSELVES!!!” The late, great Bill Hicks and I deliver our take on Information Marketing for Personal Trainers (gratuitous eye-candy included)!

Posted on 17. Sep, 2008 by Kaiser.

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“Yes, you too can be the next ten million dollar fitness entrepreneur!”
In part, Super-Trainer started as an answer to the shameless marketing that’s taken over the fitness industry over the past few years. It was a call to get back to basics – get good at training first and take advantage of what this [...]

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WELCOME TO HELL!!!! Personal Trainers Reveal Their HEALTH-CLUB HORROR STORIES!!!

Posted on 11. Jun, 2008 by Kaiser.

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When we talk about training here on Super-Trainer, we’re talking about Independent Personal Training, which is one of the most amazing and rewarding situations you can ever get into. A real dream job if there ever was one …
What we’re absolutely, positively, not talking about is HEALTH-CLUB TRAINING!!! This is one of the [...]

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