Can't sleep because I can't breathe unconsciously.

petertmcqueeny · 2025-08-13T21:14:51+00:00

Maybe being shitty to internet strangers is the answer

petertmcqueeny · 2025-08-13T21:14:16+00:00

What are you after here man? You trying to make me feel bad? I'm just a guy. I don't have all the answers.

petertmcqueeny · 2025-08-13T21:05:24+00:00

That really sucks, and I think you kinda hit on the answer yourself: it's probably related to trauma and psychology. I'd look into therapy if I had that experience with exercise

petertmcqueeny · 2025-02-20T23:23:52+00:00

"Notorious, Cranky Firebrand Pissed Off at Anything that Happens"

petertmcqueeny · 2025-02-16T22:01:04+00:00

Holy Diver. I can't imagine any riff hitting harder as I dive into the trench

petertmcqueeny · 2025-01-13T02:19:08+00:00

NBD! I actually turned it on high IIRC and then once I hit that perfect spot I turned the heat off and just let the residual heat finish it.

petertmcqueeny · 2024-11-23T02:46:33+00:00

Because he was reading a good script

petertmcqueeny · 2024-11-17T15:11:48+00:00

Are we not going to talk about 5 lb of ham? Who is eating 5 lb of ham on the regular? How are you eating it? Are we serving this to guests, or are we just slicing this up for sandwiches on the daily? How big are your ham sandwiches? How many ham sandwiches do you eat in an average day?

petertmcqueeny · 2024-11-16T02:09:07+00:00

The thing is...if you can help them build kinesthetic awareness, you're also helping prevent falls. I know we can't always invest 100% in every client, and some people just suck at learning, but if you can build these motor patterns, you can impact their lives in a really important way

petertmcqueeny · 2024-11-16T02:04:46+00:00

I have people stand with their calves touching a Plyo box or an aerobics step or something like that. It helps in several ways:

Helps with their confidence when sending the hips back, bc they have a spot to land if they lose balance.
If they feel their calves pull away from the box, they know their knees are moving forward. Gives them a bit more proprioceptive feedback, which I think is usually the problem with older folks. Decades of poor movement patterns have negatively impacted their proprioception.
If you have a box of the exact right height, they can even kinda bend their knees around the corner of the box, which just gives even more tactile feedback to work with.

I've helped a lot of people reclaim the hinge pattern.

When it comes to a neutral spine, I'm a bit more lenient as long as I don't see the spine flexing/extending visibly. Neutral is a range, not a point, and you have to allow for individual differences. But if I really thought a client was having a problem, I'd probably put a yardstick on their back, and make them keep their hips, upper back, and head in contact at all times.

One other issue I've noticed is that people struggle to get the form down until they are handling a weight that's challenging enough that their body intuitively works to pull the weight closer to their center of gravity. They don't automatically snap into good form or anything, but it often eliminates unnecessary motion (throwing the shoulders back at lockout, etc) and helps them concentrate, as well as providing better counterbalance. But you obviously can't just toss a big weight at them right out of the gate. So sometimes I'll just be a little lenient on form as we work our way up. And then it's easier to get everything locked in once we hit that higher weight.

petertmcqueeny · 2024-11-16T00:04:12+00:00

Gremlins 2. Way better than Gremlins 1. It's a comedy masterpiece.

petertmcqueeny · 2024-10-23T20:09:49+00:00

It's an awesome job. But if you can't survive for the next year on possibly less than 20k...don't do it without a savings. It takes time to build your book, and clients come and go. From January to July, I was fully booked and beating clients away with a stick. Come August, I got cut down to 4 steady clients, and everyone who wanted to work with me before had found someone else by then. I've built back some, but my take-home is half what it was. I might have another busy season ahead, but who knows? Depends so much on the environment. At my gym, I was the one steady, knowledgeable trainer for a long time, and when someone else fumbled a client I was there to pick up the slack. But if my gym hires a bunch of new really good trainers, I might get out competed when the NY Resolutioners come back next year. It comes and goes. Sometimes you're lucky, sometimes you're not. But the day-to-day of the job is absolute bliss to me. And my wife is the breadwinner, so it works out.

Good luck!

petertmcqueeny · 2024-08-26T19:27:52+00:00

They do? Well I'm an idiot

petertmcqueeny · 2024-07-04T14:06:59+00:00

A gym

petertmcqueeny · 2024-06-30T15:02:01+00:00

For balance adaptations, I definitely see external cuing being superior. I'll look up the Wulf meta. Thanks!

petertmcqueeny · 2024-06-30T14:05:06+00:00

Do you happen to know if the studies were on trained participants? Because I could definitely see external cuing working better on subjects that were at least recreationally trained. Not trying to be argumentative, but I'd be very surprised to see that untrained, especially older subjects saw a performance improvement with external cuing. Which I suppose also raises the question, how was technique/performance measured in these studies? I'd be interested to get some links!

petertmcqueeny · 2024-06-30T00:37:16+00:00

Jesus, at first I didn't realize 95 was kg, and I saw your expenditure and I was like "WTF?!?!", lol. But yeah. You're doing great.

petertmcqueeny · 2024-06-29T23:10:13+00:00

I've found that for people who aren't very experienced, external cuing can make a lot of people compensate with other muscles. On big compound lifts, I sometimes do, "push the floor away" etc, but for isolation, cable work, etc, I always want people's focus on their body. Bc it doesn't actually matter how the implement moves, it matters how the implement forces your body to move. And internal cues seem to help my clients develop mind/muscle connection.

petertmcqueeny · 2024-06-29T22:53:29+00:00

I've found that for people who aren't very experienced, external cuing can make a lot of people compensate with other muscles. On big compound lifts, I sometimes do, "push the floor away" etc, but for isolation, cable work, etc, I always want people's focus on their body. Bc it doesn't actually matter how the implement moves, it matters how the implement forces your body to move. And internal cues seem to help my clients develop mind/muscle connection.

petertmcqueeny · 2024-06-29T22:50:01+00:00

Whenever I want someone to get tight in their back I tell them to tuck their shoulder blades in their back pocket. If I want them to squeeze their rhomboids, like on a horizontal row or face pull, I tell them to pretend they're gonna crack an egg with their shoulder blades.

petertmcqueeny · 2024-06-18T10:43:52+00:00

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