Dr. Jay Polish is an American Council on Exercise certified personal trainer, and holds an additional certification in Kettlebell Athletics. A competitive powerlifter, their personal training practice focuses on empowering both new and experienced lifters with body positive training methods of strength and circuit training.
They teach Theater and English in the CUNY system, where they received their PhD in English. They live in California with their wife and their fantasies of having multiple puppies. Their website is here. You can train with them through Trainerize.
When they're not in the gym, they moonlight as the author of two young adult books, LUNAV and LOST BOY, FOUND BOY (March 2018, NineStar Press).
Their debut novel, LUNAV, a lesbian enemies-to-lovers faerie tale, features dragons that grow on trees and friendship amongst rebellion. Their debut novella, LOST BOY, FOUND BOY, is a scifi re-telling of Peter Pan in which Neverland is a holomatrix, Hook is a bisexual cyborg, and Tink is an asexual lesbian computer interface.
They teach Theater and English in the CUNY system, where they received their PhD in English. They live in California with their wife and their fantasies of having multiple puppies. Their website is here. You can train with them through Trainerize.
When they're not in the gym, they moonlight as the author of two young adult books, LUNAV and LOST BOY, FOUND BOY (March 2018, NineStar Press).
Their debut novel, LUNAV, a lesbian enemies-to-lovers faerie tale, features dragons that grow on trees and friendship amongst rebellion. Their debut novella, LOST BOY, FOUND BOY, is a scifi re-telling of Peter Pan in which Neverland is a holomatrix, Hook is a bisexual cyborg, and Tink is an asexual lesbian computer interface.
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- 10 Lower Body Exercises for When You Only Have a Light Kettlebell
- 14 Unexpected Kettlebell Moves You Haven’t Tried Yet
- It’s Back Day But I Have No Pull-Up Bar: 5 No-Equipment Back-Building Moves
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- The Definitive Guide to the Kettlebell Snatch: Form, Mistakes, and More
- 3 Kettlebell Workouts to Help Powerlifters Build Stronger Glutes
- 4 Barbell Complexes To Improve Grip Strength and Lifting Stamina
- How to Break Through a Plateau By Switching to Kettlebells for a Week
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- Low Impact, HIIT 15-Minute Kettlebell Circuit
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Fitness
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- How To Maximize Your Workout With Light Dumbbells
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- 3 Kettlebell Workouts to Help Powerlifters Build Stronger Glutes
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- Navigating Bodybuilding and Muscle Dysmorphia, What Researchers Suggest
- How to Break Through a Plateau By Switching to Kettlebells for a Week
- 4 Kettlebell Circuits That’ll Make You Stronger
- 6 Serious Battle Rope Circuits to Build Your Core and Shoulders
- 5 Kettlebell Circuits That Will Maximize Your Endurance
- Program to Your Own Cycle: Working Out And Menstruation
- Why Powerlifters Should Be Accessory Lifting With A Swiss Bar
- 3 Ways to Use Kettlebells for Active Recovery
- 10 Questions You’ve Always Had About Kettlebells, Answered
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- 3 Types of Workouts That Help Powerlifters to Improve Work Capacity
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- 4 Tips for When You Love Lifting But You Live With Depression
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- Low Impact, HIIT 15-Minute Kettlebell Circuit
Op-Ed
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- How To Maximize Your Workout With Light Dumbbells
- 3 Steps To Rebuild Your Barbell Confidence
- 5 Tips to Fix Your Funky “Good Morning Squats” From Home
- How To Go Back To The Gym The Wrong Way
- Why Yoga Is Necessary For Strength Athletes
- 7 Tips For Working Out At Home When You Have No Motivation
- Hey, Powerlifters – Don’t Be Embarrassed To Continue Group Fitness After Quarantine
- 9 Mobility-Focused Exercises to Improve Your Squat Without Weights
- Try These Exercises To Maintain Your Biceps Without Weights
- Catch Up On These 20 Fitness Must-Reads While You’re Stuck At Home Daydreaming About The Gym
- How I Cope With My Missing-the-Gym Anxiety
- 5 Ways to Cope With Missing Your Workout Buddy
- 7 Kettlebell Accessories to Integrate into Your Powerlifting Off Season
- 5 Shoulder Pulling Exercises Every Powerlifter Should Do
- 15 Kettlebell Moves To Improve Your Grip Strength And Stability
- Navigating Bodybuilding and Muscle Dysmorphia, What Researchers Suggest
- 7 Lessons for Powerlifters Taken From a Boxing Class
- Program to Your Own Cycle: Working Out And Menstruation
- Why Powerlifters Should Be Accessory Lifting With A Swiss Bar
- 10 Questions You’ve Always Had About Kettlebells, Answered
- 3 Ways to Improve Your Self Image and Why It Will Improve Your Performance
- So You’re a Runner Who Wants to Start CrossFit
- So You’re a Powerlifter Who Wants to Start CrossFit
- 3 Types of Workouts That Help Powerlifters to Improve Work Capacity
- The Surprising Benefits of Doing Push-Ups In the Sand
- 6 Kettlebell Finishers to Improve Powerlifting Performance
- A Transmasculine Person’s Guide to Building a Strong Upper Body
- 4 Tips for When You Love Lifting But You Live With Depression
- 3 Tips to Help Coaches Be More Body Positive With Their Clients
- Coaches: Teach Your Female Clients to Take Up Space
Powerlifting
- How To Go Back To The Gym The Wrong Way
- Hey, Powerlifters – Don’t Be Embarrassed To Continue Group Fitness After Quarantine
- The Best Resources for LGBTQ+ Strength Athletes
- 5 Lateral Movements Every Powerlifter Should Do
- 7 Kettlebell Accessories to Integrate into Your Powerlifting Off Season
- 3 Kettlebell Workouts to Help Powerlifters Build Stronger Glutes
- 5 Shoulder Pulling Exercises Every Powerlifter Should Do
- 7 Lessons for Powerlifters Taken From a Boxing Class
- Why Powerlifters Should Be Accessory Lifting With A Swiss Bar
- So You’re a Powerlifter Who Wants to Start CrossFit
- 3 Types of Workouts That Help Powerlifters to Improve Work Capacity
- 6 Kettlebell Finishers to Improve Powerlifting Performance
Pro Tips
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- How Do You Create An At-Home Workout Routine To Match Your Goals?
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- 5 Tips to Fix Your Funky “Good Morning Squats” From Home
- How To Go Back To The Gym The Wrong Way
- Why Yoga Is Necessary For Strength Athletes
- 7 Tips For Working Out At Home When You Have No Motivation
- The Best Resources for LGBTQ+ Strength Athletes
- 7 Tips For Maintaining Muscle Mass Without the Gym
- It’s Back Day But I Have No Pull-Up Bar: 5 No-Equipment Back-Building Moves
- 7 Tips to Avoid The Dreaded Kettlebell Forearm Flop
- 15 Kettlebell Moves To Improve Your Grip Strength And Stability
- 9 Kettlebell Lifts That Will Improve Your Bench Press
- 3 Ways to Improve Your Self Image and Why It Will Improve Your Performance
Programs
- 3 Tips for Designing a Single Kettlebell Workout Program
- How Do You Create An At-Home Workout Routine To Match Your Goals?
- 3 Steps To Rebuild Your Barbell Confidence
- 4 At Home Upper Body Workouts For Maintaining Muscle And Strength
- Program to Your Own Cycle: Working Out And Menstruation
- So You’re a Runner Who Wants to Start CrossFit
- So You’re a Powerlifter Who Wants to Start CrossFit
- Squats Causing You Low Back Pain? Try This Unilateral Leg Workout
- Low Impact, HIIT 15-Minute Kettlebell Circuit
Reviews
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- 7 Moves You Didn’t Know You Could Do With A Kettlebell
- 5 Tips to Fix Your Funky “Good Morning Squats” From Home
- Hey, Powerlifters – Don’t Be Embarrassed To Continue Group Fitness After Quarantine
- 9 Mobility-Focused Exercises to Improve Your Squat Without Weights
- 14 Bodyweight Squat Variations You Should Add to Your Workouts
- 20 Weights-Free Exercises to Help Your Deadlift Strength
- 9 Ways to Improve Your Bench Press Without Weights
- 15 No-Equipment Moves For Lower Body Hypertrophy
- 11 Heavy Kettlebell Exercises for Building Upper Body Strength
- 13 Single Kettlebell Exercises to Improve Your Deadlift
- 14 Unexpected Kettlebell Moves You Haven’t Tried Yet
- 7 Tips For Maintaining Muscle Mass Without the Gym
- 5 Lateral Movements Every Powerlifter Should Do
- The Definitive Guide to the Kettlebell Snatch: Form, Mistakes, and More
- 7 Ways to Build Stronger Shoulders With Kettlebells
- 4 Barbell Complexes To Improve Grip Strength and Lifting Stamina
- 5 Shoulder Pulling Exercises Every Powerlifter Should Do
- 4 Kettlebell Circuits That’ll Make You Stronger
- 7 Lessons for Powerlifters Taken From a Boxing Class
- Program to Your Own Cycle: Working Out And Menstruation
- Why Powerlifters Should Be Accessory Lifting With A Swiss Bar
- 10 Questions You’ve Always Had About Kettlebells, Answered
- So You’re a Runner Who Wants to Start CrossFit
- Squats Causing You Low Back Pain? Try This Unilateral Leg Workout
- 5 Tips to Bust Through an Overhead Press Plateau
- 6 Kettlebell Finishers to Improve Powerlifting Performance
- A Transmasculine Person’s Guide to Building a Strong Upper Body
Strength Gear
Training
- 7 Different Kettlebell Grips You Should Try
- Are You Overtraining During The Pandemic?
- 5 Things Mentally Strong Lifters Avoid
- 3 Tips for Designing a Single Kettlebell Workout Program
- How To Maintain Workout Motivation In an Endless Quarantine
- How Do You Create An At-Home Workout Routine To Match Your Goals?
- How To Maximize Your Workout With Light Dumbbells
- 7 Moves You Didn’t Know You Could Do With A Kettlebell
- 3 Steps To Rebuild Your Barbell Confidence
- 6 Ways To Improve Your Recovery When You’re Stressed Out
- 5 Tips to Fix Your Funky “Good Morning Squats” From Home
- How To Go Back To The Gym The Wrong Way
- 4 Full Body Bodyweight AMRAP Workouts To Maintain Strength
- Why Yoga Is Necessary For Strength Athletes
- 7 Tips For Working Out At Home When You Have No Motivation
- Hey, Powerlifters – Don’t Be Embarrassed To Continue Group Fitness After Quarantine
- The Best Resources for LGBTQ+ Strength Athletes
- 9 Mobility-Focused Exercises to Improve Your Squat Without Weights
- 14 Bodyweight Squat Variations You Should Add to Your Workouts
- 20 Weights-Free Exercises to Help Your Deadlift Strength
- So You’re Jogging More Than Ever – Here’s How to Maintain Muscle Mass
- 9 Ways to Improve Your Bench Press Without Weights
- 4 At Home Upper Body Workouts For Maintaining Muscle And Strength
- 15 No-Equipment Moves For Lower Body Hypertrophy
- 11 Heavy Kettlebell Exercises for Building Upper Body Strength
- Try These Exercises To Maintain Your Biceps Without Weights
- 13 Single Kettlebell Exercises to Improve Your Deadlift
- 10 Lower Body Exercises for When You Only Have a Light Kettlebell
- 14 Unexpected Kettlebell Moves You Haven’t Tried Yet
- 7 Tips For Maintaining Muscle Mass Without the Gym
- The Best Home Gym Equipment For Under $100
- It’s Back Day But I Have No Pull-Up Bar: 5 No-Equipment Back-Building Moves
- 5 Ways to Cope With Missing Your Workout Buddy
- 5 Lateral Movements Every Powerlifter Should Do
- 7 Tips to Avoid The Dreaded Kettlebell Forearm Flop
- The Definitive Guide to the Kettlebell Snatch: Form, Mistakes, and More
- 3 Kettlebell Workouts to Help Powerlifters Build Stronger Glutes
- 7 Ways to Build Stronger Shoulders With Kettlebells
- 4 Barbell Complexes To Improve Grip Strength and Lifting Stamina
- 5 Shoulder Pulling Exercises Every Powerlifter Should Do
- 15 Kettlebell Moves To Improve Your Grip Strength And Stability
- Navigating Bodybuilding and Muscle Dysmorphia, What Researchers Suggest
- 9 Kettlebell Lifts That Will Improve Your Bench Press
- How to Break Through a Plateau By Switching to Kettlebells for a Week
- 4 Kettlebell Circuits That’ll Make You Stronger
- 3 Essential Cues for Bracing in Heavy Lifts
- 7 Lessons for Powerlifters Taken From a Boxing Class
- 6 Serious Battle Rope Circuits to Build Your Core and Shoulders
- 5 Kettlebell Circuits That Will Maximize Your Endurance
- Program to Your Own Cycle: Working Out And Menstruation
- Why Powerlifters Should Be Accessory Lifting With A Swiss Bar
- 3 Ways to Use Kettlebells for Active Recovery
- 10 Questions You’ve Always Had About Kettlebells, Answered
- 3 Ways to Improve Your Self Image and Why It Will Improve Your Performance
- So You’re a Runner Who Wants to Start CrossFit
- So You’re a Powerlifter Who Wants to Start CrossFit
- Squats Causing You Low Back Pain? Try This Unilateral Leg Workout
- 3 Types of Workouts That Help Powerlifters to Improve Work Capacity
- The Surprising Benefits of Doing Push-Ups In the Sand
- 5 Tips to Bust Through an Overhead Press Plateau
- 6 Kettlebell Finishers to Improve Powerlifting Performance
- A Transmasculine Person’s Guide to Building a Strong Upper Body
- 4 Tips for When You Love Lifting But You Live With Depression
- How to Work Out With a Tire and Sledgehammer
- 3 Tips to Help Coaches Be More Body Positive With Their Clients
- 3 Ways to Build a Kettlebell Pyramid Workout
- Low Impact, HIIT 15-Minute Kettlebell Circuit
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- Navigating Bodybuilding and Muscle Dysmorphia, What Researchers Suggest
- 3 Ways to Use Kettlebells for Active Recovery
- 4 Tips for When You Love Lifting But You Live With Depression
- 3 Tips to Help Coaches Be More Body Positive With Their Clients
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