Keeping your appointment book full through the end of winter benefits you and your clients. The snow is still falling and so is your client’s…
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Category: Advice to Personal Trainers
The Difference Between Try and Triumph
The word “helpful” seems to be weaved within the role of personal trainer. Making a difference in the lives of others happens naturally in this field.…
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Fitness Product Reviews – 6 Steps to Evaluating Quality
How do you evaluate the quality of fitness products and equipment? That’s a loaded question. And the answer is equally as loaded. When it comes…
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How to Identify Personal Training Goals with Clients: Get SMART
Goal-setting is a powerful tool, if it is applied and executed appropriately. To help identify personal training goals with your clients, you must be adept…
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Exercise And The Common Cold Conundrum
Do you “Starve a cold, Feed a fever”, vice versa, or neither? I’m a big believer in trying to increase fluids to help rid an ailing…
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Helping Female Clients Develop a Positive Body Image
The majority of our clients come to us because they want to improve some physical characteristics they deem “imperfect” or “unacceptable”. A large part of…
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Career Foundations for New Personal Trainers
The first step you take after becoming a certified personal trainer is an important one. It sets the stage for your career. Will you get…
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Finding an Ideal Personal Training Position
Where you begin personal training is often where you stay for awhile, so choose this place strategically and mindfully. There are many options for personal…
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How To Get Hired At a Private Fitness Studio and Succeed
What does it take to be part of a personal training team like the one at TrainSmarter in Birmingham, AL? I talked with Susan Finley the…
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Prevent Drowsy Driving by Staying Awake the Healthy Way
Exercise can save your life in more than one way. It prevents disease yes, but also enhances alertness when done properly and combined with good nutrition.…
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Help Your Clients See Progress Off the Scale
Shifting your clients focus from weight to health can be challenging, but is possible. I know this to be true from my own exhausting and…
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5 Ways to Enhance Rapport with Your Fitness Clients
Research has continually demonstrated that social support is a predictor of success in any behavior change program. You are a huge source of social support…
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