The holiday season often means one thing to most clients: “avoiding weight gain” or “not losing the progress I’ve made.” As personal trainers, we see…
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Category: Advice to Personal Trainers
Supporting Senior Clients: Cultivating a Sense of Belonging
As fitness professionals, supporting senior clients with the skills and tools at our disposal is an important obligation. It is vital that we help our…
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Is Your Client an “Active Couch Potato”?
Through dedicated data collection, research professionals have arrived at distinct categories of “exercisers” within our population. As we might predict, the subtle variations in their…
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Tips to Sustain Client Engagement in Online Fitness Challenge Groups
If you are an online trainer or coach utilizing a hybrid model of both in-person and online services, you may struggle to sustain client engagement…
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4 Ways to Energize Fitness Clients
Training sessions can do a lot of things for our clients. We show them how to gain strength, become more flexible, build confidence, develop better…
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Consequences of Zero Rest Days
Making progress is not about hustling all the time, never pressing pause, or having an infinite supply of willpower. In fact, this is the opposite…
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Job Opportunity “Red Flags” Personal Trainers Should Look For
How can a personal trainer know if a job opportunity is worth the investment in time and exploration or is a disaster waiting in the…
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Effect of Exercise on Cognitive Function: New Research Personal Trainers Should Know About
Recent research has highlighted the many positive attributes of regular physical exercise on cognitive function. Cognitive function is defined essentially as “ the entire process…
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Fat Loss Resistance: 7 Reasons Why Body Composition Isn’t Budging
It’s no surprise, many personal training clients seek our services to lose weight and/or lose fat, and they can experience frustration when their goals appear…
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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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Putting Away Prejudices About Personal Training 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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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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