Bill DeSimone
What are the critical keys for designing the optimal workout for yourself and your clients?
Is there a problem with conventional training programs that might put a dent in your clients’ progress and your fitness business’ long-term sustainability?
Bill DeSimone returns for a deep dive into Joint-Friendly Fitness, where we go into detail about how to select the most effective exercises for your program, how to determine risk and avoid injury, and why all of this matters in various contexts. (Check out the book on Amazon here)
Bill is an ACE-certified health coach, Senior Fitness Specialist, and owner of Optimal Exercise in Cranbury, New Jersey, and has certifications in Functional Anatomy, Functional Fitness, and Orthopaedic Exercise. He has been training people since 1983, and he is also the author of Congruent Exercise and Moment Arm Exercise.
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Show Notes
- 02:37 – A Deep Dive into Joint-Friendly Fitness — Who It’s For and What it Covers
- 10:33 – Why some exercises are can hurt your joints and the dangers of bootcamp mentality
- 14:16 – How to control injury risk factors in the context of your exercise program
- 19:10 – How to rate the risks and dangers of specific exercises
- 27:47 – Explaining the Visual Guide section (starting with the Seated Heel Raise)
- 33:44 – Explaining the risks of certain movements, positions, and exercises to the spine
- 36:26 – Conventional Mindsets VS Proper Resistance Training, the importance of correct and proper form
- 38:21 – Deadlifts and Back Pain
- 42:17 – Should you lift off the seat during Leg Presses? Optimal positioning, maximizing muscle torque, and matching the curves of the spine when executing the exercise
- 51:00 – Sorting through biomechanics materials, options for creating your own routines, starting from scratch
- 54:17 – The whys and hows behind the Bibliography section
- 01:01:12 – Shoulder hangs and risks for injury — how to approach selecting exercises and minimize the risk
- 01:08:39 Muscle length-tension relationship, torque curves, and why it’s so hard to develop the perfect cam for exercise equipment
- 01:18:00 – Key takeaways: good form, optimal approaches, program design, and things to avoid
500 – What I’ve Learned After 11 Years of Interviewing World-Class HIT Experts and Fitness Entrepreneurs (Luke Carlson interviews Lawrence Neal)
499 – The Best HIT Protocol for Strength, Muscle Mass, and Hypertrophy (SuperSlow VS High-Volume HIT Debate with Dagoberto Vila and Dr. James Fisher)
498 – How to Fine-Tune Your HIT Workouts and Design A Great Client Experience (with Luke Carlson)
I love the details. Also really like the message of not having to do crazy, joint wrecking stuff to exercise/strength train. The talk about optimal ranges for muscle torque vs. the over stretching. The top of a lateral raise, always going to be the mechanically weakest “bad cam” range. Awesome stuff
Lots of brilliant advice in this book, every person who trains should own a copy.In my experience, hanging is terrible for shoulder problems,I had to see my physiotherapist after two weeks of this quackery.If you have a tear in your shoulder it’s hardly a good idea to hang 180 kilos (of bodyweight)on that tear and expect it to get better!
Yea, I must say I am a bit confused as well with the shoulder hanging situation as you mentioned here.
Fall off your bike a few times and that can limit your mobility as well.