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How might supplementing with herbs for recovery help our personal training clients? Post-exercise recovery can be sorely underrated (no pun intended). We as personal trainers…

Sports-related injuries are a dynamic that most personal trainers expect to encounter at some point in their careers. Whether it is a weekend warrior client…

In the fitness industry, professional trainers can design and support four-by-four (4×4) exercise protocols that are time efficient and promote both durable and strong characteristics…

One of the most recent subspecialties emerging within the personal training arena is a certification in Corrective Exercise.  As our population ages, and as these…

It seems as though just about every month there is a ‘revolutionary’ diet that claims to work weight loss miracles. With so much misinformation, what do you tell your weight loss clients to empower them to make informed decisions of their own?

The squat is a true test of lower body strength. Any serious commercial, collegiate, professional, or home gym will have a squat rack and a…

If you’re a Personal Trainer and you run Bootcamp-type workouts, chances are you have a greater percentage of women than men participating in your classes. It’s…

The miracle of weight training is that it actually slows muscle tissue loss associated with aging. In fact, it’s possible to regain some muscle that may have been lost to injury or inactivity.

To perform well in kickboxing, karate, and most martial art forms, one must develop strength, power, and muscular endurance. If you have sparring clients, understanding…

The fitness industry defines muscular strength as the physical ability to generate force against an external load. The 1RM simply represents the maximum amount of…

San Diego, CA (February 1, 2017) – ClubConnect and National Federation of Professional Trainers (NFPT) are announcing their joint effort to bring a foundational learning…

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…