Affirmations are statements that can influence behavior change and fitness results. They go beyond counting repetitions and cueing form during workouts. Affirmations are an essential…
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Category: Advice to Personal Trainers
Teach Movement as a Form of Hygiene
Do you struggle to get your clients to perform exercise on their own or complete their movement “homework”? Reframing the way we have our clients…
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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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How to Study for Your Personal Trainer Certification Exam
Passing exams hasn’t always come easily to me. Yet, I recently studied and passed the NFPT Certified Personal Trainer Exam! I hit some roadblocks along…
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Skinny Doesn’t Guarantee Healthy
“Can you help me to lose weight?” is what many females ask when first meeting with a fitness professional. In a world where we are…
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The Balancing Act of a Certified Personal Trainer
Being balanced and teaching balance in life and in health is easier said than done. Here are some ideas on how to implement balanced practices…
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7 Healthy Holiday Habits to Initiate with Fitness Clients
There’s nothing wrong with an indulgence here and there. The holidays are a time for feast and celebration. Clients need tips to stay on track…
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The 5 Pillars of Success For Your Clients
Exercise alone lacks the ability to change body composition and health. Study after study shows that working out by itself has little impact on body composition…
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Sticking to Fitness Goals During the Holidays
Nothing serves as a better deterrent from sticking to fitness goals than the holidays. Whether it be the constant travel or irresistible mouth-watering meals. It…
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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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Holiday Tough Love for Clients
Help clients reframe and rethink the holidays instead of just get through them. Have a conversation and find out what your clients are thinking about…
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Top 10 NFPT Blogs from 2018
NFPT has an exciting year of blogging in the works for 2019. If you need to catch up on the top articles from 2018, here’s…
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