Fitness Programming – A 5D Approach
Most personal trainers cover 4 of the 5 dimensions of fitness programming - muscular strength, endurance, cardiorespiratory fitness, and flexibility. But, are rest days part [...]
Assessing Cardiovascular Risk with Fitness Clients
Prioritizing and investigating clients’ health history according to recent research and recommendations to minimize risk and identify potential unknown risk factors is part of [...]
Proper Form for a Lat Pulldown
Exercise Name & Target Muscle Group The Lat Pulldown is a surprisingly complex exercise that involves far more than the latissimus dorsi muscle. The predominant [...]
Mindful Eating – Being Conscious About Calories
Calorie counting isn't the most effective method for changing nutritional habits. It's really just a craze of sorts. Although, it has its place and time. [...]
Flexibility Training – 5 Benefits Beyond Better ROM
Photo by Alora Griffiths on Unsplash The full benefits of flexibility training transcend positive physiological outcomes and aren’t physiologically or fitness related. Engaging [...]
Massaging Fitness Clients
Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash Can you massage personal training clients? A certain amount of physical touch is common practice when working [...]
Answering Fitness Client Questions Confidently
You can spill everything you know about a given topic when a client asks a question, you can make a guess if you don't know [...]
Feldenkrais – A Contemporary Mind-Body Technique
Feldenkrais is one of many popular forms of mind-body exercise that could supplement your fitness training methods. Mind-body exercise techniques continue to shake-up the health [...]
Motivational Interviewing for Personal Trainers in Practice
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a communication style health coaches and personal trainers can employ to guide their clients towards effective and sustainable behavior change. Motivational [...]
Get More Time as a Personal Trainer
What if you could get more time by spending a small amount of time reading? It seems counterintuitive but is actually possible. (Lack of) time seems [...]