Insights on Executive In-Home Personal Training in San Francisco & the Peninsula
Case studies, coaching insights, and practical guidance on strength, mobility, golf performance, and longevity for clients across San Francisco, Hillsborough, Burlingame, Palo Alto, Atherton, and the Peninsula.
This page shares the thinking behind the work. From mobility limitations that affect performance to strength, movement quality, and long-term physical capacity, these insights are designed to help you better understand the body you bring to training, sport, and daily life.
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Strength Training After 40: Why It Is the Most Important Thing You Can Do for Longevity
San Francisco personal trainer Coach Rich Thurman explains why strength training after 40 is the single most powerful investment in your longevity, health, and quality of life — and how to start.
3 Things to Assess Before Increasing Training Intensity
When progress stalls, most people reach for the same lever: push harder. More weight. Faster pace. A harder program. It feels logical if something is not working, do more of it. But this instinct, repeated often enough, is exactly why so many people plateau.
Why Mobility Training Matters More Than Stretching for Busy Professionals
Most of the personal training clients I work with in San Francisco have tried stretching. They have stood in the corner after a workout, held a hamstring stretch for thirty seconds, and waited to feel better. Sometimes it helps in the moment. But within a day or two, the tightness is back, and nothing has really changed.
This is not a failure of effort. It is a failure of approach.