Training the Personal Trainer: Can We Walk the Walk?
Despite our best efforts as personal trainers to try to see an experience through the client’s eyes, we often are unable to fully accomplish this [...]
Protein Bar Roundup: The Best and the Worst
Are your clients looking to refuel after a challenging workout, bulk up for a competition, or just kaibosh hunger pangs for an hour or [...]
The Delicate Sodium-Potassium Balance and Summer Heat
The summer season brings with it heat and humidity, and when humidity levels exceed 70%, that excess moisture can interfere with the body’s ability to [...]
Functional Imagery Training: Visualizing Performance and Health Success
Personal trainers might be interested to learn about Functional Imagery Training (FIT), a new motivational intervention that utilizes mental visualizations to achieve personal goals. [...]
Backwards Training Can Propel Your Clients Forward
Although personal training clients hire personal trainers for a multitude of reasons, the overwhelming majority of personal training clients, hope to build strength or achieve [...]
The Impact of Hormonal Birth Control on Exercise
As fitness professionals we need to be aware of the deleterious effect hormones, that are often unknown or undiscussed, may have on a client’s workout. [...]
Competitive Nutrition For Women’s Figure, Physique and Bodybuilding
Pre-competition nutrition programs are designed to help an individual drop fat without compromising lean muscle. The subtleties between meal plans depend to a certain extent [...]
Training Young Athletes: What a Fitness Professional Should Know
Coaches working with young athletes can strongly influence whether or not the child’s future gets monopolized by training and competing, literally defining his or her [...]
Symbiosis of Maximizing Size and Strength
Growing muscles and gaining strength are not necessarily achieved by the same means. Strength is the foundation of everyday acts of athleticism, as well as [...]
Tips On Falling Safely And Injury-Free
There are valuable tools a fitness professional can add to a client's repertoire that will improve overall functionality and resiliency, among which learning to fall [...]