Introducing your strength-training clients to negative lifting, aka, employing negatives, might be a progressive overload approach worth considering, especially if you’re helping them to push…
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Author: Theresa Perales
Posts by Theresa Perales:
Tempo Training for Endurance, Hypertrophy, and Strength: Creative Progressive Overload
Tempo training is one creative approach to progressively overloading your clients when they get stuck or bored. As personal trainers and fitness enthusiasts, we know…
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5 Lower Body Resistance Band Exercises for a Workout on the Go
Summer is officially in full swing, which means many of my clients and I have been on the road traveling. The first thing I suggest…
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5 Upper Body Resistance Band Exercises for the Busy Summer Client
Summer is season of leisure; yet many clients find themselves busier than usual, which translates into logging fewer workouts. In preparation for the coming season,…
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Pistol Squat Regressions–Progressing With a Twist
A pistol squat is a one-legged, bum-to-the-floor squat, and it is notoriously difficult for a fit person, let alone the average person, to execute. Quad…
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6 Standing Core Exercises: Off the Back and on the Feet
Incorporating standing core exercises in favor of sets of crunches and Russian twists will save time and better improve functional strength. So if you like…
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Mindfulness Challenge: Better Connect with Yourself and Your Clients
For clients and trainers alike, working out is often a time to disconnect from the outside world and reconnect to the moment by tuning into…
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“Love Your Body” Personal Trainer Challenge
After recently confronting my own body image struggles, I challenge you, as personal trainers, to do the same if you also face such issues. Despite…
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Stepping Off the Scale for Weight Loss Success
Recently I overheard some clients commiserating about their “dreaded numbers on the scale.” This challenged me to troubleshoot the issue from many different angles until…
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Active Recovery for Training
The vital role recovery plays in conjunction with fitness routines cannot be understated. As trainers aiming to keep clients active and injury free, we need…
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Passive Recovery for Training
Ideally, recovery happens before an injury not just after. It’s part of the preventative mindset. After talking with a past client recently about struggling with adrenal…
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Muscular Strength and Endurance Programming for Women
Introducing women to the world of strength training in an approachable way has been my mission as of late. Swapping isolated movements for compound movements;…
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