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Having a baby will completely change a person’s life. New moms have so much to adjust to: lack of sleep, a body traumatized by pregnancy…

Customer service is key to retaining and growing your business. Whether it’s a large fast-food chain like Chik-fil-A or your mom and pop store down…

Disability, a topic often deftly sidestepped within the confines of a fitness center, deserves our attention. As personal trainers or gym owners, we have the…

What happens when certified personal trainers provide exercise possibilities are brought to marginalized and underserved communities? According to the US Census Bureau, the number of…

This information is from Chris Kelly’s eLearning continuing education course: Restore the Core: Integrated Core Training for Real World Function.  See the full course for…

Female clients can use weight lifting to their advantage when wanting to lose weight. I generally don’t encourage a client’s main fitness goal to be “weight…

Push-ups, Sit-ups, and Box Jumps are all aptly named exercises. The name describes exactly what they are. But what about fan favorites like Burpees, Bulgarian…

Paying more attention to the “showier” muscles of the upper body has been a fairly common, if inherently unbalanced, view of resistance exercise. The muscles…

In the era of GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), personal trainers face a new wave of clients experiencing rapid weight loss, but not always in…

Often we instruct our personal training clients to help work out muscular tension and pain with static or even dynamic stretching. When this doesn’t resolve…

Diets don’t work. Millions of people each year diet and come to the conclusion that diets don’t work. Perhaps a new approach is needed. Actually,…

Turning paying fitness clients into staying clients requires as much finesse as it does the appropriate application of science. Just because you get the client…