Posts by Craig Ballantyne
9 Steps for Your Product Launch
One of the best business books I’ve read in the past 2 years was “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs“. In it, the author chronicles how Jobs prepared to release the Ipod and Iphone (and eventually the Ipad). Essentially, how he did “offline” product launches. Thanks to his product launches, Mac geeks were lining up…
Read MoreOld-Man Warm-Up and Off-Day Workouts
Today I want to talk about the best off-day workouts you can do between hard sessions of Turbulence Training. In most cases, simply walking, biking, hiking, stretching/easy yoga, are all good enough off-day activities. Doing 500 kettlebell swings and 200 pushups on an off-day might be fine once in a while for an advanced person,…
Read MoreIreland’s First Certified Turbulence Trainer Gives You His Top Fat Loss and Nutrition Tips
My name is Darragh Holland. I live in Clones Co Monaghan, Ireland. At junior school, I got the nickname ‘Dutchy’ which has stuck with me ever since. Having always played a lot of sport, with Gaelic Football being my main sport, I have also played some Soccer, American Football and Muay Thai. I think I…
Read MoreUnique Bodyweight Exercises
Here’s a really cool video showing some unique bodyweight exercises from bodyweight coach, Adam Steer. Check out more information on Adam’s cool new workouts at: www.ShapeShifterWorkoutsRock.com Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, M.Sc. Certified Turbulence Trainer
Read MoreHow to Do Interval Training with Kettlebell Exercises
Last week I did a Facebook Question and Answer session with Chris Lopez, CTT, from: http://www.KettlebellWorkouts.com Kettlebell training gives you an amazing metabolic resistance and conditioning workout, and will help you lose belly fat fast. Here are a couple of the most common kettlebell questions I asked him. 1) “How do we replace traditional intervals…
Read More3 Things You MUST Do for Your Diet
I’m just finishing up a quick in-and-out trip to New York City, where I had lunch meeting and then a few other business partners (non-fitness related) on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. I also snuck in a big walk around Central Park, and then hit an upper body meathead workout with my friend Simon Black…
Read More7 Powerful Words of Wisdom
Yesterday I interviewed John for our TT Certification Client Attraction newsletter, and we talked about how to become the most popular trainer in your gym as well as your city, plus how to get published in major magazines like Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, and Shape. It was another excellent Client Attraction interview. Roman even gave…
Read More3 Lessons from Justin Bieber
Make success work for you, like it did for the Biebs.
Read MoreWhat is Intermittent Fasting
With so many TT members using intermittent fasting, and more specifically, Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eat program, we have a lot of discussion about the method here on my blog, as well as on FB and the member’s site. So I decided to invite Brad over to the Turbulence Training Facebook page and ask him…
Read MoreKettlebell Interview with Chris Lopez
Today we’re going to do a Kettlebell exercise and workout QnA time with Certified TT Trainer, Chris Lopez. Chris is also an RKC, Russian Kettlebell Challenge, certified KB trainer, and has been a kettlebell fanatic for many years. He even taught me how to use kettlebells here, at Kettlebell School: 1st question: Chris, what got…
Read MoreThe Death of Circuit Training
On Saturday morning at my local YMCA, I watched two guys do “vomit inducing conditioning workouts”. I call them “vomit-inducing” because I wanted to vomit from watching their form. One guy was doing explosive reverse curls (meant to be hang cleans) while another did flippity flop DB snatches followed by one of the worst planks…
Read MoreTurbulence Training Success Story May 2011
Another amazing month of Turbulence Training success stories coming in from all around the world. And each month I read through the hundreds of pieces of mail and email that we get to choose our winners who receive a 1-year Platinum TT Membership. This month, we’re giving away a Platinum Membership (worth $197) to one…
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