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Category: Advice to Personal Trainers
Exercise Timing is Almost Everything
A client may ask the professional trainer for advice about optimal exercise timing. Should they work out first thing in the morning? After breakfast? What…
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What Happens When the Shot Stops? Coaching Clients Beyond GLP-1 Use
There’s a question more and more personal trainers are starting to hear at the end of a training session or over coffee after a client…
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Nutrition, Protein, and Appetite Suppression: A Muscle-Forward Strategy For Clients on GLP-1 Agonists
In the era of GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), personal trainers face a new wave of clients experiencing rapid weight loss, but not always in…
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Implications of Genetic Variants on Athletic Performance and Injury Risks
The quest to understand what makes an athlete excel lies at the heart of every competitive endeavor. Genetics, commonly thought of as the “blueprint of…
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Gene Doping in Sports: The Un-leveling of the Playing Field
Over the last million years or so, we humans have cultivated and finely tuned the instincts that have enabled us to survive and transmit our…
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Lessons From Sports/Physical Education Build Successful Professional Leaders
Physical education, from elementary schools to high school to select competitive teams, can serve as more than just a “filler hour” between chemistry and algebra…
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Stride Right for Fitness and Health
Human strides truly are what made us who we were for Paleolithic hunting and gathering ways and means. Walking and motion still make us who…
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Lengthen and Strengthen with a Weights-Pilates Format
When personal trainers hear the word “Pilates” specific images may be conjured up, such as a quiet room full of women extending their bodies in…
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Best Personal Training Software and Platforms
As most personal trainers have been forced out of in-person training for most of 2020 discovered, an abundance of online and remote training apps and…
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Are There Bad Exercises?
We’ve all heard it from someone before about various movements: “Ugh, that’ll wreck your shoulder!” or “That’s bad for your knees!” and maybe “Flexing your…
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Constructive Use of Proper Fueling: Pre- or Post-Workout Carbohydrates
When anticipating a morning workout, the timing of nutrient intake ranks as one of the most hotly debated issues in fitness. Whether one exercises in…
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