Small towns have pros and cons for fitness entrepreneurs. Are you a fitness professional living in a small-ish town? Do you have the desire or…
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Author: Erin Nitschke
Posts by Erin Nitschke:
Nutrition and Meal Planning: Scope of Practice For Personal Trainers
Are you allowed to talk about nutrition with personal training clients? If you are, how much is ok? And what is ok? Nutrition is gray…
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Expanding Your Skills as a Fitness Professional
Finding new and innovative ways to sharpen our professional skill set and stay abreast of new developments, research, and training techniques is essential in the…
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Communication and Personal Training – What’s Talk Got to do With It?
In any successful relationship, there’s give and take. Each party has to learn to communicate effectively and openly and develop a comfort level to express…
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Starting a Niche Gym
Gyms come in all shapes, sizes, and services – from big box gyms to small-town studios and traveling personal trainers specializing in “at-home” workouts. If…
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12 Ways to Tell if Your Personal Trainer is a Waste of Money
As sad as it makes me to state this – “anyone can be a personal trainer”. This statement is perceived to be “true” on two…
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Using Social Media to Keep Fitness Clients Accountable During the Holidays
There’s nothing like a few holiday buffets and travel plans to threaten clients’ progress towards their fitness goals. But what if we started using the…
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Get More Personal Training Clients – Communicate Better!
Effective communication goes beyond talking and listening. It takes into account the situation and the specific person you are in conversation with. Personalized communication can…
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Using the CRAAP Test to Evaluate Fitness Web Resources
The number of times a student or client has shared an article with me and asked “is this true?” is far beyond my ability to…
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The Stability Ball Crunch
What is a Stability Ball Crunch? The stability ball crunch is an abdominal exercise which predominantly targets the abdominal muscles. It’s a progression from doing…
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5 Statements Personal Trainers Should Never Say to their Clients
Personal trainers, like every other person on the planet, have their moments of making silly remarks or insensitive comments to their clients. We are…
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Why Client Screening and Assessment is Necessary
There are several processes and/or approaches for client screening and assessment that ideally takes place at the very beginning of the client-trainer relationship to clear…
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