The squat is arguably the most ubiquitous and programmed exercise in the personal trainer’s toolbox. This article will discuss fundamental squat technique, not a specific…
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Category: Assessments
The Importance of Pre-Screening for Personal Trainers: A Comprehensive Guide
When you become a personal trainer, your primary objective is to ensure your clients achieve their fitness goals safely and effectively. An essential step in…
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Preparing your Fitness Clients for Physical Assessments
Health and physical assessments are integral to the personal training experience. When working with clients, it is not possible to overcommunicate or overprepare – especially…
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Assessing Lumbar and Hamstring Dominance over Gluteal Engagement
Most trainers understand that many clients have “sleepy glutes” that need to be woken up and activated properly in order to perform basic exercises without…
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Promoting a Growth Mindset: Helping Fitness Clients Achieve and Succeed
Most trainers have encountered a client who outwardly appeared to have all the ability and desire needed to achieve their personal goals and aspirations, yet…
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1RM: Calculating a Client’s One-Rep Max
The fitness industry defines muscular strength as the physical ability to generate force against an external load. The 1RM simply represents the maximum amount of…
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Assessing Ankle Mobility
If assessing ankle mobility is not on your checklist of assessments to complete with a new or existing client, you might consider adding it to…
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Waist Circumference vs BMI: Helping Clients Measure Up
Educating our clients on how to improve health outcomes certainly falls under the purview of health and fitness coaching. With that, explaining the relevance of…
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Measuring Body Composition: Do Scans Work Best?
Personal training clients can prepare clean meals, hydrate sufficiently, and train properly, yet still find that truly positive results elude them. What other resources may…
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Assess, Don’t Guess: Using Assessments to Support Client Coaching
As personal trainers we must take our due diligence to keep our clients safe and injury-free in tandem with helping them reach their goals. Before…
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Functional Gait Assessment: Performance Precursor and Disease Marker
Gait can be a four-letter word with unfortunate consequences if one’s stride becomes disorderly or abnormal. Personal trainers who can perform a functional gait assessment…
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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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