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 [...]
Five Ways to Embrace Fall Fitness with Clients
Fall. The crisp air, nature’s changing color palette, the crunch of the fallen leaves – everything about the autumnal season says “change”. What better way [...]
Fostering Empathy to Elevate the Fitness Client’s Experience
I always start the semester by engaging my personal training students in a discussion that prompts them to answer this question: “what does effective personal [...]
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
All professionals, at some point in their careers, question their individual talents, intelligence, and abilities. Personal trainers are no exception. It takes time to build [...]
The 4 Keys to Injury Prevention Programming
At some point in your fitness career, you will encounter clients who are suffering or who have suffered from an injury – either related to [...]
How to Avoid Toxic Positivity when Communicating with Fitness Clients
Establishing rapport is the first step towards developing successful and sustainable relationships with fitness clients. Rapport indicates a mutual trust and respect is present within [...]
How To Create a Supportive Fitness Community
Social support provided by friends, family and peers is a significant predictor of success in the achievement of health and fitness goals. For our clients [...]
10 Business Strategy Tips for Personal Trainers
Although the foundation of personal training is, at the heart of it, about the people we interact with and train, we can’t ignore the business [...]