Healthier Students are Better Learners
Charles E. Basch presents an interesting concept in his article that addresses how particular health problems play a major role in poor academic achievement in urban minority youth especially in their motivation and ability to learn. A coordinated approach of health services with the school and community has been found to close the achievement gap […]
Necessary In-Home Personal Training Equipment
These days, there are some really awesome pieces of portable fitness equipment that you can use with your clients. If you’re considering working as a personal trainer in a in-home gym setting, then you need to add portable fitness equipment to your trainer toolbelt. A few of the essentials include: A high quality workout mat […]
Why Should Clients Train With You?
An important thing to ask yourself as a personal trainer is “Why should people train with me?” This is a question you will inevitably get from potential clients. Answering the following questions can give you more confidence in what you have to offer and will certainly help to prepare you for meeting with a potential […]
Common Form Mistakes When Strength Training
Squats When performing squats or leg press exercises don’t let your knees go in front of your toes, this can potentially cause injury to your knees. When squatting or leg pressing, you want to ensure that your legs come to a 90 degree angle with the floor (or platform if leg pressing) and that your knees […]
Why Should I Get Professional Liability Insurance?
It is not my intention to scare you into purchasing professional liability insurance as a mobile or gym fitness trainer, but it is important to be aware of reality. In our field, not all accidents and injuries can be prevented. Heck, there are also some crazy people out there who may sue you for something […]
Eight Ways to Push Past Fitness & Weight Loss Plateaus
Have you already exercised and lost the weight you wanted to lose? Are you finding that the benefits of your efforts are becoming less obvious? It could be that you are experiencing a fitness slump. Here are eight ways to blow past plateaus. Keep Moving First, make sure subtle changes aren’t negating the hard […]
10 Rules for a Successful Home Fitness Trainer’s Marketing
Marketing and client recruitment strategy is one fundamental difference of working as a commercial gym trainer versus working for yourself as a mobile fitness/in-home fitness trainer. Within the gym setting the trainer’s potential clients are walking around the gym like schools of fish. Since trainers went through a process to get hired by the gym, […]
Eight Ways to Push Past Fitness & Weight Loss Plateaus Pt. 2
Have you already exercised and lost the weight you wanted to lose? Are you finding that the benefits of your efforts are becoming less obvious? It could be that you are experiencing a fitness slump. Last week I shared with you the first four ways to blow past plateaus. Here are the final four ways.
The 12 Best Reasons to Exercise
We’ve all had them before. Tough clients. Those people that just don’t seem to be interested in their own health. The one’s where you feel like you’re pulling teeth to convince them to come train with you, even for a free session! I’ve put together these quick 12 best reasons to exercise so you can […]
7 Bad Habits for Personal Fitness Trainers
How many nasty habits have you picked up that will sabotage training and leave you or your clients injury prone and underachieving? You probably are not even aware of these habits, but after reading through these you’ll notice that you or your clients may have some work to do. Bad habits impede progress. Breaking bad […]