Gym etiquette plays an important role in any gym, and personal trainers have an obligation to relay certain concepts to our newest clients. Adhering to…
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Category: Advice to Personal Trainers
How to Check a Personal Training Client’s Pulse During Exercise
Taking a client’s pulse is a basic skill that a trainer should know for gauging intensity.
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Importance of Proper Form and Cueing in Personal Training
“Proper form first.” This core concept should be the driving force of our training methods with our personal training clients regardless of fitness level or…
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Six Questions Personal Trainers Get Asked the Most by Clients
The questions personal trainers get asked by our clients are endless, and if you are considering a career in the fitness industry, it would be…
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How Old is Too Old to Become a Personal Trainer?
“Am I too old to become a personal trainer?” You’re never too old to start an exercise program and the same is true when it…
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Bioenergetics: Aerobic versus Anaerobic Energy Production
While we are all familiar with aerobic activity, defined in the early 1970s by Dr. Kenneth Cooper as activity during which the cardiorespiratory system provides enough oxygen for muscular effort, most of us associate anaerobic activity with that very hard effort we do during intervals. The fact is that each non-sequential muscular effort, such as turning your head, entails some measure of energy production in the absence of oxygen, qualifying it as anaerobic.
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How Personal Trainers Can Better Boost Engagement and Income This Summer
Heading into Summer, personal trainers might be looking for new ways to boost engagement with new clientele and increase income. While many of us are…
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What Challenging Clients Teach You as a Personal Trainer
As personal trainers, we would love it if all clients we work with were “easy” in terms of communication, adherence, motivation, and commitment. However, we…
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“How I Thought I’d Get Clients”: What New Personal Trainers Can Learn from the Seasoned
Perhaps the most daunting aspect of starting your career as a Personal Trainer is recruiting clients. Whether you are working in a big box health…
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Bikini Wellness and Fitness Categories: New Competitive Bodybuilding Divisions
If your head is already spinning trying to sort out all of the women’s bodybuilding divisions, you can throw bikini wellness and bikini fitness into…
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Putting Away Prejudices About Fitness Clients: Creating a “No-Judgment” Zone
A no-judgment zone establishes an open-minded outlook on the training process right from the start. Chances are we, as personal trainers, have some background info…
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6 Personal Training Client Recruitment Strategies That Actually Work
Finding personal training client recruitment strategies that work for you is key to staying in the fitness business. Many times, fitness professionals overcomplicate the recruitment…
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