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Author: Erin Nitschke
Posts by Erin Nitschke:
Feldenkrais – A Contemporary Mind-Body Technique
Feldenkrais is one of many popular forms of mind-body exercise that could supplement your fitness training methods. Mind-body exercise techniques continue to shake-up the health…
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Answering Fitness Client Questions Confidently
You can spill everything you know about a given topic when a client asks a question, you can make a guess if you don’t know…
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Massaging Fitness Clients
Can you massage personal training clients? A certain amount of physical touch is common practice when working with fitness clients. Cueing proper form during exercise…
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Flexibility Training – 5 Benefits Beyond Better ROM
The full benefits of flexibility training transcend positive physiological outcomes and aren’t physiologically or fitness related. Engaging in regular flexibility exercises has been shown to…
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Mindful Eating – Being Conscious About Calories
Calorie counting isn’t the most effective method for changing nutritional habits. It’s really just a craze of sorts. Although, it has its place and time.…
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Proper Form for a Lat Pulldown
Exercise Name & Target Muscle Group The Lat Pulldown is a surprisingly complex exercise that involves far more than the latissimus dorsi muscle. The predominant…
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Assessing Cardiovascular Risk with Fitness Clients
Prioritizing and investigating clients’ health history according to recent research and recommendations to minimize risk and identify potential unknown risk factors is part of the…
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Fitness Programming – A 5D Approach
Most personal trainers cover 4 of the 5 dimensions of fitness programming – muscular strength, endurance, cardiorespiratory fitness, and flexibility. But, are rest days part of…
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7 Healthy Holiday Habits to Initiate with Fitness Clients
There’s nothing wrong with an indulgence here and there. The holidays are a time for feast and celebration. Clients need tips to stay on track…
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The Female Athlete Triad
Energy Imbalance. Amenorrhea. Osteoporosis and risk of fractures. Together, these symptoms make up a condition called the female athlete triad. Typically, this condition is seen…
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Proper Form for a One-Arm Dumbbell Row
The one-arm dumbbell row is a unilateral exercise that targets the lats, teres major, middle, and lower trapezius, rhomboids, posterior deltoid, brachialis, biceps, and brachioradialis.…
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