Exercise Timing is Almost Everything
A client may ask the professional trainer for advice about optimal exercise timing. Should they work out first thing in the morning? After breakfast? What [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
Help Clients Overcome Plateaus and Manage 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Banking Micro-nutrients for Performance
CPTs can apply general knowledge of clients’ nutritional requirements and changing diets to capably support their muscular performance. [...]
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 [...]
Client Pain: More than a Sensation!
We CPTs can be resourceful listeners and agents to help our older clients address both pain dimensions (yes there are two: sensory and emotional). [...]