Clients are individuals. Each one comes to us with a different set of life circumstances, personalities, and likes and dislikes. For many new clients, you…
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Category: Client Relationships
Personal Trainer: Motivator and Mentor
An effective Personal Trainer needs to be both a motivator and a mentor. You need to provide the right mixture of understanding and discipline. By…
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Social Support for Exercise Success
A workout buddy, an encouraging friend, a running club, or positive family member, – call it what you wish, but these are all forms of…
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Apply a Hands-On Approach to Personal Training
Take the hands-on approach with clients to help grow your personal training business. Results are what drives your business and results come from proper instruction and…
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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…
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How to Help Athletes Overcome Fear
Fear is powerful. It is as powerful as confidence. Unfortunately, fear begets a very different result. Fear is often the result of a bad experience,…
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The Dark Side of Extreme Fat Loss
Extreme fat loss causes an emotional hangover that lingers–a quality certified personal trainers would do well to readily recognize. I used to weigh nearly 300…
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Keeping Personal Training Clients On Your Schedule
Keeping clients on your schedule is easier said than done. Not everyone will mesh with you. Not everyone will make fitness a priority even if…
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Motivating Behavior with Emotions
Willpower and self-control are easier to talk about than to cultivate consistently. They are both stellar qualities to possess but aren’t an ideal go-to gameplan…
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New Year, New View of Yourself
Kick off New Year’s fitness goals for yourself and clients with a healthy body image in mind. Many people set new years goals like, “I’m going…
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What To Do if a Client Crosses a Line
Developing close, personal relationships with clients can cause problems and awkward situations that you didn’t anticipate even though getting personal is essential to your role as…
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“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. Despite…
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