Scope of Practice for the Fitness Professional: Goal Setting
Goal setting is an important aspect of personal training and the client-trainer relationship. Setting goals is crucial as they outline a road map of where [...]
Scope of Practice for the Fitness Professional: Romantic Relationships with Clients
It’s common for personal trainers and their clients to develop close-knit relationships. A trainer often transitions from a coach and role model to a confidant [...]
Scope of Practice for the Fitness Professional: Upselling Products and Services
Personal training is a business. Therefore, a large part of personal training is selling your services to potential clients. If you don’t effectively recruit new [...]
Positive Body Image Marketing in Personal Training: Keeping it Professional
The term “professional” is often defined by one’s educational pursuits, subject matter expertise, licensure/certification attainment, and scope of practice. However, being a professional is more [...]
Scope of Practice for the Fitness Professional: Counseling Clients and Mental Health
Fitness clients aren’t just clients; they are individuals who are juggling many responsibilities and fulfilling multiple roles in their lives. It’s not unusual for a [...]
Scope of Practice for the Fitness Professional: Medical Guidance and Advice
If you’re a fitness professional, you more than likely get comments and questions like these, all of which challenge the limits of your professional scope [...]
Scope of Practice for the Fitness Professional: Massage Therapy
It’s not uncommon for fitness clients to request massages or trigger point release from their personal trainers. Personal trainers have a thorough understanding of the [...]
The Planes of Motion: Creating a 3D Approach to Fitness Training
The human body is meant to move in all directions – forward, backward, side to side, up, down, and rotationally. In other words, the body [...]
Processed Foods: What Fitness Clients Should Look Out For
The topic of processed foods is somewhat convoluted as there are multiple definitions of what constitutes a processed food item. The majority of foods experience [...]
Coaching Fitness Clients Toward Behavior Change
The process of changing human behavior is challenging and complex given that it is an ongoing, nonlinear process influenced by a number of different factors [...]