As trainers, we have many goals for our diverse client base. Most trainees are striving to improve body composition, lose weight, increase endurance, and in…
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Category: CEC Articles
Keep Fitness Clients Active Through Allergy Season and Year Round
Allergies can interfere with staying active in the summer. And just when you thought you got used to summer allergies, the seasons are about to change…
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The Importance of Exercise in Lung Cancer Research
There’s a good reason why Carol Michaels was awarded with Personal Trainer of the Year at the Idea World Fitness Convention this month. Cancer effects everyone.…
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Foreshadowing: Can Prehab Prevent Rehab?
The human body was designed to move. We are functioning at our very best when we take advantage of the blessing of mobility, and allow…
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Experience vs. Education: What Do Clients Really Value?
As I was preparing to take my certification exam, a trainer at the gym shared with me a very profound tenet of the industry: “Clients…
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Gluteus Minimus – Three of Three Glutes
Everybody knows the “glutes” are the largest muscle in the body. BUTT…they’re not just one muscle. It’s time to meet the smallest glute! It seems…
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Comprehensive Karate Training
In combat and/or self-defense there is a need to understand how to develop a rock solid skeletal musculature to avoid the trauma, yes the trauma…
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The Java Jolt: Fitness Friend or Foe?
I will fully admit to being somewhat of a coffee snob. Preferring Starbuck’s beans to just about all others, I have been brewing it at…
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Gluteus Medius: Two of Three Glutes
Everybody knows the “glutes” are the largest muscle in the body. BUTT…they’re not just one muscle. In total, your glutes incude three muscles that each have…
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Gluteus Maximus: One of Three Glutes
Everybody knows the “glutes” are the largest muscle in the body. BUTT…they’re not just one muscle. In total, your glutes are made up of three…
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Rhomboids – Stability Training Muscles
Generally when people say “stability” they mean strength. They sometimes mean the “smaller” muscles in the body. With 600 muscles in the human body there…
READ MOREThe Competition Continuum
“Ready, get set, go!” Does this phrase excite you or make you want to crawl under a rock? Some people love competition. Others run from…
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