Jonathan Ross

Strength training has long been touted for its muscle- and bone-building benefits, but a growing body of research suggests that enhanced brain health should be added to that list. This article presents a broad overview of the available research on the link between strength training and brain health, as well as offering you some practical guidance on how to apply this research in your exercise program design and work with clients.

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create a dynamic and challenging workout featuring Hyperwear’s SandBell Sandbag System that is safe, effective and fun for your clients. 

Wellness has different meanings to different people. One way it can be defined is any behavior, large or small, that contributes to health and vitality. Explore options for integrating wellness into your everyday life.

Learn how to take a mental victory lap each day while shifting your mood and mental state to a better one with this simple, yet powerful, technique.

We all know we need to be more active and follow a healthy diet, but exactly how we achieve those goals varies widely. Here are two of the most commonly offered pieces of advice, along with more realistic and practical versions that you can actually put into practice.

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training®  (ACE IFT® ) Model to create a physically and cognitively challenging workout featuring ROX pods that is safe, effective and fun for your clients. 

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create an innovative, multisport agility workout that is safe, effective and fun for your clients. 

Diets are easy to start and even easier to stop, often because many diets are unrealistic, unsustainable and built on a foundation of extremism. Use these seven tips to help you stay positive (not perfect) and make progress (and not regress) in your quest to eat more healthfully.

The New Year often brings on a slew of 5-minute plank challenges, but this year it’s time for something different. Check out this unique plank challenge, which delivers more fun and more benefit than you might have thought possible from the ubiquitous plank exercise.

Feeling super? You will when you try this superhero circuit workout from ACE!

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training®  (ACE IFT® ) Model to create a physically and cognitively challenging workout featuring ROX pods that is safe, effective and fun for your clients. 

This core workout, which uses body weight and a stability ball, is a great way to progressively challenge the abdominal muscles and ensure you have the muscular fitness you need to handle the unpredictable movements life may throw at you.

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create an innovative, multisport agility workout that is safe, effective and fun for your clients. 

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create an innovative workout featuring Hyper Rope Battle Ropes that is safe, effective and, importantly, fun for your clients.

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create an innovative workout featuring the NT Loop that is safe, effective and, importantly, fun for your clients.

Reactivity is a characteristic of fitness and movement that we use every waking moment, mostly without even realizing it. Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create an innovative workout featuring the Aqua Bag that is safe, effective and, importantly, fun for all your clients.

Worried you aren’t getting enough sleep? Wondering if you should get up earlier? New understandings of sleep may be pleasantly surprising—and a welcome relief to those feeling pressured to adopt the mythical “early bird” lifestyle dogma so commonly promoted in health circles.

Medicine balls have become required equipment for health clubs, studios and even many home gyms. Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create an innovative workout featuring three types of medicine balls that is safe, effective and, importantly, fun for all your clients.

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross reviews the research on heavy-rope training and applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create an innovative workout featuring the SandRopes that is safe, effective and, importantly, fun for all your clients.

After 20 years as a health and exercise professional, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross is sharing his knowledge and insight to help others who are new to the industry. In an effort to help you arrive at a more comfortable place in your career more quickly, here are five things Ross wishes he had known at the start of his career.

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create an innovative workout featuring the Core Hammer that is safe and effective for all your clients—not just the ones who are the most fit.

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross reviews the research on heavy-rope training and applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create an innovative workout featuring the SandRopes that is safe, effective and, importantly, fun for all your clients.

Long-term success with health and fitness is possible only when we change how we think about health behaviors. Chores are obligations, while desires draw you toward them and require little to no summoning of your will. Learn how to change your mindset about exercise by examining how you feel about healthy behaviors, and why you should stop doing physical activities you don’t enjoy.

While foam rollers are typically considered a warm-up and/or recovery tool, you might be surprised to learn that they can be used to create a challenging workout as well. Give this foam-roller workout a try the next time you want something that works your whole body, is time-efficient and uses a familiar tool in novel ways.

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create an innovative workout featuring the Axle—a lightweight, portable barbell—that is safe and effective for all your clients, not just the ones who are the most fit.

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create a safe and effective—yet highly challenging—balance-training workout featuring the StrongBoard that you and your clients are sure to love.

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create an innovative workout featuring the Core Hammer that is safe and effective for all your clients—not just the ones who are the most fit.

The hardest part of health is getting started. If that’s where you are, make this the last time you ever start again and turn “no-mentum” into momentum by answering four critical questions that will identify the internal forces that keep you motivated.

Finding the right starting point for exercise using the ACE Integrated Fitness Training (ACE IFT) model is key to helping your older clients improve their fitness levels. Learn how to create programs that help your clients progress properly and transform from fragile to agile by developing strength, mobility and agility for life.

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create a safe and effective—yet highly challenging—balance-training workout featuring the StrongBoard that you and your clients are sure to love.

As a health and fitness professional, people turn to you to help make positive changes. Learn how to maximize the enthusiasm many clients have at the start of the New Year by using ACE Pro Jonathan Ross’ three-day process for building success momentum. This simple process, which focuses on mindset, movement and meals, is the ideal jumpstart for clients who are ready to start making small changes that add up to big rewards over time.

Planks are a great exercise, but holding them for an extended period of time is, well, kind of a waste of time, argues ACE Pro Jonathan Ross. Rather, planks should be viewed as a way to prepare the body for more difficult challenges. Learn how to add variety to basic planks that will make your workouts more enjoyable and enhance your ability to move in everyday life.

For better or worse, habits take the work out of decision-making. But once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom—and the responsibility—to remake them. Here’s how you can start rebuilding your habits to create a happier, healthier you.

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create an innovative workout featuring Primal 7 suspension straps that is safe and effective for all your clients—not just the ones who are the most fit.

When something is fun, we usually want to do it more often. Play is inherently pleasurable. Plyometric exercises are inherently intense. Learn how to combine the two for an intense, yet enjoyable work

The hips and shoulders provide the most potential mobility in all three planes of movement and they form the point of connection between the extremities and the torso. As a result, successful movement is only possible with sufficient mobility in these two joints. This article highlights two very common problems for each joint and presents a few exercises to work on a solution for each.

Do you have clients who do shift work? If so, they may need help figuring out the best times to exercise. ACE pro Jonathan Ross explains how identifying a client’s chronotype and reaction to exercise can help determine the client’s most beneficial time for working out.

We don’t often fully notice balance until we lose it. But like any other fitness characteristic like speed, power or strength, it can be developed and enhanced. Check out these five fun and effective exercises for training balance while in motion.

Abdominals are always a popular workout topic, so it’s a perfect time to revisit crunches with some tweaks to make them more beneficial for your core than they used to be. Here are four variations for you.

Exclusively for CERTIFIED readers, ACE Pro Jonathan Ross applies the principles of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® (ACE IFT®) Model to create a safe and effective—yet highly challenging—workout featuring Hyperwear SoftBells that you and your clients are sure to love.