Perhaps the most daunting aspect of starting your career as a Personal Trainer is recruiting clients. Whether you are working in a big box health…
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Author: Andrew Gavigan
Posts by Andrew Gavigan:
Getting Hired As A Personal Trainer: Tips From Fitness Industry Leaders and Potential Employers
Getting hired as a personal trainer in the fitness industry can be nerve-wracking and confusing compared to some more straight-and-narrow career paths. The process may…
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Foam Rolling and Depression: Are Stiff Muscles Linked to Major Depressive Disorder?
Personal trainers wise to the relevant link between foam rolling and depression may be in a position to truly help their clients with depression. Exercise…
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Effect of Exercise on Cognitive Function: New Research Personal Trainers Should Know About
Recent research has highlighted the many positive attributes of regular physical exercise on cognitive function. Cognitive function is defined essentially as “ the entire process…
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Supporting Senior Clients: Cultivating a Sense of Belonging
As fitness professionals, supporting senior clients with the skills and tools at our disposal is an important obligation. It is vital that we help our…
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How Fit Pros Can Leverage Commitment Devices to Promote Healthy Behaviors
Committing to a healthy lifestyle delivers its obvious benefits that most won’t argue with, yet most of our fitness clients wrestle with this commitment daily.…
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Benefits of Plank: Emerging Research on Strength and Immune Function
Recent research has shown there to be even more benefits of plank exercise programming for fitness clients. Further research has also shown a variety of…
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The Plank: Quality Over Quantity
The plank is one of our most trusted tools in personal training for conditioning the muscles of the core. You can find multiple articles about…
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How Fitness Clients Misjudge Future Gym Commitment
Whenever we are approached by a new client, the level of motivation they have for committing to exercise is likely quite high–at that moment. But,…
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Stability Training: Load vs Platform
Balance and stability can be considered the foundations of fitness. Our best programs consist of proper progressions, from a long-term design perspective, and for each…
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Book Review, “Exercised”: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding
If exercising is so good for us, then why is it so hard to get people to workout? We experience hunger, and feel satisfaction after…
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Fitness World Records
Great workout programming usually consists of a fair amount of foundational strength and mobility practices mixed with a bit of challenging exercise. For clients who…
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