Five Fitness Phrases That Need To Go
Encouraging and motivating fitness clients with the "right" words go with the territory of being a health and fitness professional. While there are many inspiring [...]
Overcoming “Gymtimidation”: Boosting Fitness Client Confidence
"Gym-timidation" is a real phenomenon and occurs when a client feels uncomfortable in the gym, intensifying any personal insecurities. First-time exercisers may also feel uncomfortable [...]
Things You Didn’t Know About Becoming a Fitness Professional
Despite the commonly held perception that personal trainers are just rep-counters or vain meatheads, being a fitness professional requires abundant knowledge, grit, dedication and professionalism. [...]
What To Do When Fitness Clients’ Goals Aren’t Met
Setting goals is a necessary first step in the process of personal growth and achievement, and certainly integral to programming for personal training clients. But [...]
Boosting Your Confidence in the First Year as a Personal Trainer
It can be intimidating starting a new career and especially the first year of being a certified personal trainer. It may be helpful to take [...]
Making Workout Program Adjustments When Your Client is Injured
How do you proceed when a client enters a session with a minor injury? As personal trainers, we hope and expect our clients will adapt [...]
Making Workout Program Adjustments When Your Client is Bored
As helpful as routine is to an organized day and even more important it is to an exercise program, what can you do if your [...]
Making Workout Program Adjustments When Your Client is Fatigued
Adaptability is a necessary skill for fitness professionals allowing personal trainers to make on-the-spot program adjustments when a client enters a session feeling tired [...]
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – What Fitness Professionals Need to Know
Because the symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), can be exacerbated by exertion, there are key points every fitness professional can keep [...]
Discerning Disordered Eating from Eating Disorders
Encountering a client with disordered eating, which can be distinct from clinical eating disorders, is highly probable at some point in the fitness professional's career. [...]