LIFTING INJURIES

Avoiding Lifting Injuries

As fitness professionals, we accept the premise that most serious strength-training athletes and bodybuilders will experience injuries at some point in time. Within a 1-year…

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Weight Lifting for Weight Loss

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…

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OLYMPIC LIFTS

Olympic Weightlifting Methods

When trainers hear about Olympic weightlifting they immediately think of two things: either taking a loaded barbell and ripping it off the floor in one violent motion with minimal technique, or that the lifts are detrimental and deleterious to the health and well being of the person doing the lifts. These two assumptions highlight a vast miscomprehension of Olympic weightlifting.

 

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Helping a Client Return to Exercise after Injury

Returning to exercise after a sports-related injury can be a trying time for an active person. Viewed in a positive light, it can be a time to try new ways of performing familiar exercises and gain new insights in the process.

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Why Would Someone Hire a Trainer?

Personal trainers and clients work together to improve the clients’ fitness level. Sometimes they work together for a few sessions and sometimes they work together…

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NCCA accredited personal trainer certification

What the Heck Does Accreditation Mean?

In 2005, the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) recommended that health club owners hire personal trainers with credentials from agencies whose certification program…

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