Deficit Training: Getting Creative With Progressive Overloading
If you’ve got an advanced client looking to spice up their strength training routine, deficit lifting might be one answer--successful at employing a greater range [...]
The Best Podcasts for Fitness Professionals
In recent years I’ve dubbed myself the “forever-a-student,” because learning new things has always been my jam; especially when it comes to my favorite topic: [...]
Negative Lifting For Strength and Hypertrophy: Creative Progressive Overload
Introducing your strength-training clients to negative lifting, aka, employing negatives, might be a progressive overload approach worth considering, especially if you’re helping them to push [...]
Tempo Training for Endurance, Hypertrophy, and Strength: Creative Progressive Overload
Tempo training is one creative approach to progressively overloading your clients when they get stuck or bored. As fitness professionals and enthusiasts we know first [...]
5 Lower Body Resistance Band Exercises for a Workout on the Go
Summer is officially in full swing, which means many of my clients and I have been on the road traveling. The first thing I suggest [...]
5 Upper Body Resistance Band Exercises for the Busy Summer Client
Summer is season of leisure; yet many clients find themselves busier than usual, which translates into logging fewer workouts. In preparation for the coming season, [...]
Pistol Squat Regressions–Progressing With a Twist
A pistol squat is a one-legged, bum-to-the-floor squat, and it is notoriously difficult for a fit person, let alone the average person, to execute. Quad [...]
6 Standing Core Exercises: Off the Back and on the Feet
Incorporating standing core exercises in favor of sets of crunches and Russian twists will save time and better improve functional strength. So if you like [...]
Mindfulness Challenge: Better Connect with Yourself and Your Clients
For clients and trainers alike, working out is often a time to disconnect from the outside world and reconnect to the moment by tuning into [...]
“Love Your Body” Personal Trainer Challenge
After recently confronting my own body image struggles, I challenge you, as personal trainers, to do the same if you also face such issues. [...]