Functional Movement Assessments For Fitness Clients
Up until the early 90's, fitness assessments consisted of measuring body fat, upper/lower body strength, flexibility, and anaerobic capacity. As we learned more about the [...]
Understanding Heart Rate Variability Training And How To Use It With Fitness Clients
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) training utilizes today's available technology to assess a heart metric that can provide valuable information about how a client or athlete [...]
Interpreting Signs of Overhead Squat Assessment: Upper Body Dysfunction
Upper body dysfunction (UBD) may appear upon observation as simple shoulder dysfunction, as has been suggested with models such Upper Crossed Syndrome. But the glenohumeral [...]
Interpreting Signs of Overhead Squat Assessment: Lumbo Pelvic Hip Complex Dysfunction
Interpreting the noted signs of an Overhead Squat Assessment (OHSA) can help a trainer identify muscle imbalances, such as which muscles are long and weak, [...]
Interpreting Signs of Overhead Squat Assessment: Lower Extremity Dysfunction
After getting familiar with performing an overhead squat assessment (OHSA) and noting any signs of imbalance or dysfunction, you'll have to know what to do [...]
The Overhead Squat: The Best Movement Assessment to Expose Muscle Imbalances
Most personal training clients arrive with muscle imbalances that need to be corrected in order to make gains and prevent injury. The most skillful of [...]
Why Client Screening and Assessment is Necessary
There’s a detailed process that personal trainers follow to screen, clear, and assess a client’s readiness to participate in physical activity. Depending on the certifying [...]
3 Unique Fitness Assessments
You probably check in on client goals, progress, and results regularly. Getting and proving results is one way you retain more personal training clients and keep your [...]
Assessments that Renew Fitness Goals
How do you keep your clients motivated? With your enthusiasm? With proof? Keeping notes is one way to show the client what's changed in their [...]
Diaphragmatic Breathing: Assessment & Corrective Ideas
The average individual takes about 12,000 breaths in a day. This presents a huge problem for those with dysfunctional breathing patterns.