Barefoot Training Basics for Personal Trainers
Do you train with your shoes off or see others doing so? Maybe at first, you just scratched your head and worried that the barefoot [...]
Fun Functional Movement for Young Clients With Limb Weakness
Lower limb weakness can present in young people who are diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, or cerebral palsy. Regardless of its etiology, lower limb [...]
Understanding and Training Pectoralis Major
Knowing where pectoralis (pec) major is located, how it moves the surrounding bones and what exercises strengthen it is essential for exercise programming. Pec major [...]
Assessing Cardiovascular Risk with Fitness Clients
Prioritizing and investigating clients’ health history according to recent research and recommendations to minimize risk and identify potential unknown risk factors is part of [...]
The Future of Fitness and Healthcare – Which Way to Go?
No longer is fitness the sole domain of aerobics instructors in their 20’s and 30’s, conducting group exercise classes with seemingly boundless energy. What was [...]
Breathing New Life Into Clients With COPD
When a client has trouble breathing because of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), it changes the approach to physical fitness. Armed with the physiology of respiratory [...]
Seizure Safety: Exercise and the Epileptic Client
Exercise can benefit the epileptic client. Over 2.5 million Americans are currently living with epilepsy and need exercise just like everyone else. Epilepsy is a neurological [...]
The Importance of Activity for Children with Special Needs
Exercise programs and physical fitness centers need to accommodate children with special needs. Unfortunately, there are very few doing so. This is a problem because, [...]
Time Restricted Eating and Autophagy
“The best of all medicines is resting and fasting.” – Benjamin Franklin What if there was a way to achieve better health while doing “nothing”? Perhaps Ben [...]
Incontinent Clients Can Reclaim Their Active Lifestyles
Some of your clients might suffer quietly from incontinence. It's an issue about which clients often hesitate to speak and it effects more people than [...]