Medicare-aged folks comprise a notable and possibly growing segment of our personal training clientele. Their calendar years may or may not reflect “gym or fitness…
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Author: Dave Frost
Posts by Dave Frost:
The Lymphatic System: Tuning the Other Half of a Client’s Circulatory System
Most older clients can and should “tune-up” their lymphatic circulation with planned exercise to better their health. Lymphatic “tune-up” is desirable in any period. Yet…
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REHIIT–Tailoring Interval Training for Older Fitness Clients
Despite its widespread benefits, engagement in physical activities or exercise remains scarce, primarily reported a result of a ‘lack of time’. How can personal trainers…
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Client Pain: More Than a Sensation
We certified personal trainers can be resourceful listeners and agents to help our older clients address both pain dimensions (yes there are two: sensory and…
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Addressing Joint Health: Fostering Movement and Preventing Degradation
Despite best-laid plans and intentions, winter holidays for many older clients involve less movement, added unhealthy food choices, plus more emotional stresses. With such holiday…
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Banking Micro-nutrients for Performance
CPTs can apply general knowledge of clients’ nutritional requirements and changing diets to capably support their muscular performance. Our skeletal muscles (which ancients called “little…
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Protecting Bones and Joints (PB&J)
It’s your job as an NFPT Trainer to help your clients reduce their lifestyle-related risk factors, which includes protecting bones and joints. Fit pros should…
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Senior Stretching Skills
Gender, age, and lifestyle can adversely impact client ranges of motion, flexibility, and/or safe biomechanics. Poor pandemic postures may, unfortunately, add to chronic issues which…
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How to Overcome Plateaus and Manage Client Training Overloads
Trainers professionally direct training loads for their clients to enable both physical/mental adaptations for fitness gains over time. It is a near-certainty that our clients…
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Inflammation: Hero or Villain? (Or Both?)
Trainers must be aware of, and address both the hero and villain aspects of post-exercise inflammation, which we refer to as exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD).…
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Facing Fatigue Factors: Exercise Fatigue vs. Chronic Fatigue
Professional Trainers and many clients have started or will soon establish “new normal” patterns for exercise after our COVID-19 “gap year.” One aspect of this…
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Forward Head Posture: Neck Considerations for Older Clients
In fitness, we not only cater to clients with postural dysfunction but we begin to notice it more in those we encounter in everyday life.…
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