When personal trainers understand biceps anatomy and mechanics they’re able to cue clients more effectively, address strength imbalances, minimize risk of injury, and enhance training…
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Category: Exercise Programming
4 Safe Alternatives to Traditional Free Weight Exercises
Free weights propose a risk for injury while machines can be limiting. As trainers we have to weigh the benefits against the risk in order…
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Specificity Training – What and Why
Without this key element, training just isn’t quite as personal. Specificity is one of the most important elements in client training programs and a big…
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How To Do The Dead Bug Exercise
The Dead Bug exercise looks simple but don’t let that fool you, it is very challenging! This exercise strengthens the core, decreases pressure in the…
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How to Do the Renegade Row
When it comes to core strengthening, the exercises that personal trainers should incorporate most are not crunches or the Russian twists, but rather functional exercises…
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30 Minute HIIT Workout Using Tabata Protocol
Lately, many clients, and heck, even myself, have found our busy schedules are interfering with our longer workouts, so we’ve been exploring more HIIT (High…
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Suspension Strap Lunges for Beginners
Suspension straps provide a great modification to lunges for the beginner or someone rehabbing. Even though lunges are a tried and true exercise for personal…
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Intermediate Suspension Strap Lunges
What can you do to up the ante once clients have become comfortable with their beginner suspension strap lunge? Of course, you could simply remove…
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How to do Kettlebell Swings
The Kettlebell is versatile. You can use it for a farmers carry, progress your front squat from a single dumbbell, or perform a more complex…
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NFPT Live: Rotator Cuff Exercises and Personal Training Strategies – Ep 13
The rotator cuff has four muscles and enough motions, exercises and stretches for us to talk about it for 45 minutes! Get caught up on…
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Advanced Suspension Strap Lunges – From Regression to Progression
What Can I Do Instead of Lunges? A few months ago several clients were experiencing some physical discomfort doing lunges and expressed their desire to…
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Three Ways to Do Lunges Using Suspension Straps
Suspension straps are a great way to modify lunges to make them easier or more difficult. A win-win for fitness programming! I started using these…
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