The NASM-CPT Podcast With Rick Richey

NASM Master Instructor and Host Rick Richey is joined by special guest NASM Master Instructor Tony Ambler-Wright. The two bring you a discussion on how this is an opportune time for clients to focus on improving their movement and how corrective programming can be leveraged for that. Plus, they will also discuss how trainers refine and learn new assessment techniques and how to apply them. Want to...

Host and NASM Master Instructor Rick Richey is joined by special guest Emily Booth the National Education Manager for Indoor Cycling at Life Time Fitness. The two will talk about the challenges in the industry during these extraordinary times and how to use them to your advantage. Introducing NASM Connected - a new, annual CEU subscription! Earn unlimited CEUs, get access to 350+ fitness courses,...

Join NASM Master Instructor and host Rick Richey and his guest NASM trainer Katrina Pilkington for an important discussion on race, diversity, and inclusivity in training. Be part of this open and honest discussion. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nasm-cpt/message

Host and NASM Master Instructor Rick Richey is joined by Tony Ricci, Assistant Professor of Exercise Physiology & Nutrition at LIU Brooklyn to discuss fight sports, mindset, and much much more! Master everything NASM has to offer. Become NASM Elite and get unlimited access to the best courses. https://nasm.co/3jw0s7i --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nasm-cpt/message

Join host and NASM Master Instructor Rick Richey as he looks at how personal trainers can provide behavioral interventions to help increase adherence and compliance with their training clients. Joining him on this episode is Antoinette Schoenthaler from NYU. Learn even more about these exciting topics. Become an NASM Certified Nutrition Coach today and save! https://nasm.co/3gMXgBY --- Send in a v...

NASM Master Instructor and host Rick Richey discusses diet and weight loss with Avatar Nutrition Co-Founder Katie Coles MS RDN CPT. The two also breakdown popular diets, starvation mode, and much, much more! Learn even more about these exciting topics. Become an NASM Certified Nutrition Coach today and save! https://nasm.co/2Z8HZoZ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nasm-cpt/message

With the state of our world and industry influx with the effort to limit the spread COVID-19, the NASM-CPT podcast and host Rick Richey wanted to help in the way we know how. By talking about it and offering advice.  During this time an NASM trainer out of Houston named Keridon McMahon offered free counsel on how trainers can start to move toward online and virtual training. When we heard about th...

Host and NASM Master Instructor Rick Richey as he discusses the impacts of sleep on performance and the art of recovery with Neuroscientist Alison Brager. Brager shares her unique perspective as a researcher for the US Army. She is one of few Army Soldiers who are neuroscientists. Her research includes studying survival in extreme environments, under sleep deprivation and stress, and why some indi...

In this episode, host and NASM Master Instructor Rick Richey,  answers a question from a student listener about the sliding filament theory/model of muscle contractions. Rick goes into the detail about the anatomy and characteristics of skeletal muscles, muscle filaments actin and myosin, "force-field proteins" troponin and tropomyosin, cellular currency, and more! He then helps listeners use what...

NASM-CPT Podcast host and Master Instructor Rick Richey is joined by Sigma Nutrition founder and Sigma Nutrition Radio host Danny Lennon. The two discuss time-restricted feeding, what it is, current data, best uses, and much more!  Want to master the ins and outs of nutrition? Get a Nutrition Certification from NASM. https://nasm.co/303FUeO --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nasm-cpt/m...

NASM Master Instructor and NASM-CPT Podcast host Rick Richey is joined by medical exercise specialist Brian Richey for a show recorded from a live event.  The two breakdown the differences between medical and corrective exercise and what it means for fitness professionals. Want to master the art of Corrective Exercise? Become an NASM-CES today. https://nasm.co/2T0HhXn --- Send in a voice message:...

NASM Master Instructor Rick Richey talks with guest Pete McCall about high-intensity exercises and their impact on the aging process. The two discuss McCall's book on the subject, how the research from exercisers in their 70’s have seen similar muscle enzyme activity of those in their 20’s. The discussion will also include hormone production, muscle fiber recruitment, and the safety concerns of ag...

Host and NASM Master Instructor Rick Richey is joined this episode by a very special guest, Dr. Brad Schoenfeld. Dr. Shoenfield's research is mostly focused on body composition and hypertrophy. He is an associate professor at Lehman College and has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed research studies. The two will discuss everything you need to know about hypertrophy. --- Send in a voice message:...

In this episode, host Rick Richey focuses on a topic from an email request asking details about exercises and their prime movers. This is by no means an exhaustive list of exercises, but it is to detail joint actions, planes of motion, prime movers, and synergists. It can get a bit heavy with the terminology, but stick with it and practice learning the language of human movement science. The exerc...

Host and NASM Master Instructor Rick Richey is joined by Fabio Comana, Senior Fitness Educator with NASM. The two provide a deep dive on Metabolism and everything you need to know.   Want to learn everything about nutrition? Become an NASM Certified Nutrition Coach. https://nasm.co/35ivSac  #Metabolism #Nutrition #NASM --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nasm-cpt/message

Host and NASM Master Instructor Rich Richey is joined by NASM Master Instructor Marty Miller to talk about the role of technology in training, breakdown some of the newest trends and share who it can play a pivotal part in training remotely.   Get our free online training mini-course: https://nasm.co/3eIq0eG   #FitnessTechnology #PersonalTraining #OnlinePersonalTraining   Follow us:   Facebook: ht...

In this episode of the NASM-CPT Podcast, Rick talks about the four-step NASM Corrective Exercise Continuum (CEx) as well as the new NASM Correcitve Exercise Specialization that launched in Q1 2020. The text has been retooled and the research is has been updated to reflect the current scientific data.  This episode discusses the implementation of corrective exercise and speaks to the newly emerging...

Dr. Kaman Hung, DHSc., is a physical education teacher, coach, and an NASM certified personal trainer. His area of expertise in health science is mindfulness. He joins Rick today to discuss mindfulness and acknowledges that the best time to start a mindfulness practice is always right now. Now just happens to during a worldwide pandemic, so join us as he explores and explains mindfulness, the bene...

Dr. Rachel Goldman joins Rick today as a special guest discussing mental health during the times of COVID-19 and how CPTs can support themselves and their clients. What is within our scope of practice and when we should direct someone to a mental health professional. Also discussed are ways to bring up seeing a mental health professional in a way it can be best received. Dr. Rachel is a clinical p...

The spread of COVID-19 has lead to the closing of many gyms around the U.S. and we are all hurting. In this episode, I will relate my decision to close all three of my gyms in NYC back to the core values of the business and myself as a trainer. This pandemic is hitting us all personally, emotionally, and financially, and some smaller facilities like mine are trying to fly under the radar and stay...

With the state of our world and industry influx with the effort to limit the spread COVID-19, the NASM-CPT podcast and host Rick Richey wanted to help in the way we know how. By talking about it and offering advice.  During this time an NASM trainer out of Houston named Keridon McMahon offered free counsel on how trainers can start to move toward online and virtual training. When we heard about th...

Functional anatomy helps us better understand produce, reduce, and stabilize forces along with their joint actions. In this episode Rick talks about the core musculature including the “inner unit” of the core that helps stabilize the spine. The following muscles will be reviewed: - transverse abdominus - multifidus, rotatores, and transversospinalis - internal and external obliques - erector spina...

Functional anatomy helps us better understand produce, reduce, and stabilize forces along with their joint actions and planes of motion. In this episode the following muscles will be reviewed: - Hamstrings - Glutes - Adductors - Sartorius This is the second in a series that addresses muscles from the bottom up. Continue to listen as we make our way through the major muscles throughout the body. --...

Functional anatomy helps us better understand movement. How do muscles produce, reduce, and stabilize forces along with their joint actions and plane of motion. In this episode the following muscles are reviewed: - Anterior Tibialis - Posterior Tibialis - Quadriceps - Iliacus - Psoas - TFL This is the first in a series to help better understand muscles and their function. We are starting at the lo...

Personal trainers work with an array of clientele and chances are they will be training someone that has been diagnosed with heart disease, diabetes, or cancer. This episode does not discuss training these populations, but it explains these pathologies so that the CPT better understands them, what is actually happening in the body, and the complications that are associated with them. This episode...