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Celebrity New York City personal trainer Kevin Richardson is the creator of Naturally Intense High Intensity Training and the founder of Manhattan’s Naturally Intense Personal Training Services. (Note that as of March 2nd 2020 Online Personal Training and Diet Coaching with Celebrity Online Trainer Kevin Richardson is now available). A former international fitness and nutrition consultant for UNICEF, Kevin is also a highly prized guest speaker at corporate events, working with major international corporations to help improve the health of their employees with his time saving workouts. In a career that has spanned over quarter of a century, he has helped hundreds of clients from celebrities to CEO’s to regular New Yorkers achieve their fitness and weight-loss goals with his program of short-duration, high-intensity workouts. A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Kevin grew up in a fitness-oriented family. He was a painfully thin child who preferred reading books – especially comic books – to playing sports, and often found himself the target of schoolyard bullies. The best way to stand up to them, he decided, was to be like the comic-book heroes he idolized, so he began martial arts training at the age of nine. As he became proficient in karate and ninjutsu, he was, indeed, better able to take care of himself. Unfortunately, while he could fight, he didn’t look like he could; he remained a scrawny kid who had to prove himself over and over. Eventually, he decided it wasn’t enough that he could fight like his comic-book heroes – he needed to look like them, too.
Kevin 1 month before he started training!
Following in the footsteps of his father, brother and cousin, he began training at age fourteen in natural bodybuilding, a branch of the sport that rejects performance-
Celebrity Trainer Kevin Richardson today!
A husband and father at age twenty, Kevin left the Caribbean for New York in search of a better life for his family. He found a second home at Brooklyn’s legendary Fifth Avenue Gym, which produced more natural bodybuilding champions than any other facility of its kind. For fifteen years, he worked by day in social services, running a recreational therapy program for people with AIDS and formerly homeless New Yorkers, and by night at the Fifth Avenue Gym, doing personal training. Inspired by his own success, Kevin spent the first ten years of his personal-training career refining the principles of high-intensity training and applying them to his clients. Committed to the scientific method, he set out not to prove but to disprove the effectiveness of ten-minute high-intensity workouts. It wasn’t enough that the system worked for him and his first set of clients; he wanted to determine if the results could be replicated consistently by a wide variety of individuals with a wide range of fitness levels and goals. And indeed, he found that Naturally Intense High-Intensity Training worked for men and women from their 20’s to their 70’s whether they were trying to lose weight, increase endurance, build muscle mass, enhance overall fitness, or develop a world-class physique.
In early 2009, at the depth of the last recession, Kevin took a leap of faith, leaving his job in social services to bring the Naturally Intense 10-Minute Workout to a larger audience. Headquartered in the Chelsea/Flatiron District, his personal-training business was honored with the Best of Manhattan Award in 2012, 2013,2014, 2016 and 2017. His clients have included various celebrities, actors, politicians, business executives, athletes, models, natural-physique competitors, Navy SEALs, and plenty of ordinary folks. Some have traveled regularly from as far away as London and Singapore to train with him, while others have commuted weekly from Massachusetts and North Carolina. Kevin is a a major figure in the fitness community with over 2 million readers of his award-winning blog (naturallyintense.net/blog), and his Naturally Intense 10-Minute Workout has reached a broader audience over the years through features on CBS on the Couch, Fox 5 Good Day New York, and the CBS Morning News, The Daily Mail and The Wall Street Journal. Kevin is also a highly in demand public speaker, and is often hired to speak about his own journey and present his unique Naturally Intense methodology of better results in less time at conferences across the country. A true Renaissance Man, Kevin is also an internationally published fitness and dance photographer and he is the creator of the overwhelmingly popular, Dance As Art-
High Intensity Home Gym Plyometric Hack Squats!
You don`t see it in the video but I had to take five as the room was spinning a bit after this last set!😵
It`s a controlled descent, accentuating the eccentric (negative) phase then immediately blasting up as hard you can so your ankles leave the ground.
Essentially a jump squat with enough weight and and a angle where it ends up looking more like a hop, but it`s a full out jump!
The stress on your quads, hamstrings and glutes is extreme and by the 5th rep or so your legs are on fire!
I got to 8, but knew I had more, so popped out another two, and then, as I said before, spent some quality time with a blank gaze staring off into space!!!💫
And for the gear minded, it`s an @betitanfit Linebacker Landmine attachment on a landmine tethered to my @roguefitness heavily modified Monster Lite Squat Rack!
Still training hard, hope you are too!!!
Thanks as always for watching and as always, Excelsior!!! #naturallyintense!
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High Intensity 100lb Incline Dumbbell Presses!
This is the last all out set after a set with 80lb dumbbells to warm up.
I go hard for reps, then hold for an agonizing few seconds, then blast up again for some partial reps until I can`t go anymore.
It`s painful, but it`s mercifully short!
And given the fact that I only train each body part once a week, I`m always ready to go all out for each workout and most importantly, the seven day rest periods and low volume allow me to be able to keep training heavy at 50 because I don`t have any overuse injuries with over 30 years of high intensity training!
Give this combination a try next time you train chest, thanks for watching and as always, Excelsior!!! #naturallyintense
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Just me at 50.
I remember when I was a kid dreaming of one day looking like a bodybuilder. I started training at 14 years old, 125lbs soaking wet at 6ft tall and my first day at the gym the instructor told me I didn`t have the genetics to ever be a bodybuilder.
It really hurt to hear that but I kept going even though it felt there were always obstacle after obstacle in the way of me realizing my dream.
There was the drugs I`d never consider using, the supplements that didn`t work and the "training information" mostly based on what works for those on steroids. Nothing really for natural athletes and back then there were no prominent truly lifetime natural bodybuilders to look to for guidance, so I blazed my own trail.
I spent years developing and testing a protocol I would one day call Naturally Intense High Intensity Training whereby I`d train three times a week with blistering intensity for 10-20 minutes and then do my best not to pass out!
Results came steadily, but it always felt slow. Painfully slow, but I kept at it. I started training others, and got so much back from seeing their success with the program that it really helped keep me going for the many years it would take before I finally looked like a bodybuilder. I was 25, and I`ve been at it full throttle since then. Not because I wanted to be better, but because along the road to looking good, I found a path that felt good.
One that helped me grow both physically and as a person. And with just an hour a week commitment in terms of training time, getting in those workouts has never been a problem, (the problem is usually just trying to walk afterwards)
And so, at 50, twenty years removed from my last competition, I am simply grateful for what I have done and more so for what I have helped others accomplish and I hope my work and my journey helps you in some way on your own path towards excellence. Thanks for stopping by, know that I believe in you and as always, Excelsior!!! #naturallyintense
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Kevin`s High Intensity Concentration Curls!
This is a movement I do at the beginning of an arm workout to get the blood flowing and it`s extremely intense!
You don`t need a ton of weight I (only) used a pair of 35lb dumbbells for this one and it starts off as a modified one arm concentration-like curl and then compounds into a seated partial curl.
Twenty reps on the first phase and for the second one I zoned out, as I don`t really count much when I get into it, I just keep going and this time I got 9 reps but you can feel free to do 10!
If you are looking for a serious pump then you are most certainly won`t be disappointed with this exercise flow!
Thanks as always for taking the time to look at my work and as always, Excelsior!!! #naturallyintense
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The Supplement Scam!
One of the biggest deceptions today is the fact that many fitness influencers promote supplements not because they believe it will work for you but because it`s profitable. I wish it were otherwise as a lot of natural bodybuilders and natural athletes spend a lot of money on supplements, and they do so on the recommendation of their favorite fitness influencers or bodybuilders and it`s the same scam today as it was many years ago when magazines were the main source of bodybuilding information.
Just like back then, the bodybuilders and athletes promoting supplements often never used them. Most of them used steroids to look the way they do, but jumped on the supplement promotion bandwagon because it`s profitable. They make money through sponsorships and affiliate links, selling products that have no connection to why they look the way they do.
So don`t fall for it as you don`t need supplements. They don`t really work and you already have everything you need to succeed! So believe in yourself, thanks for tuning in and as always, Excelsior!!! #naturallyintense
