There’s more to getting a grip than just getting your act together. Strengthening grip is important in the fitness world, and often doesn’t get the…
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Category: Exercise Programming
Teach Your Clients to Breathe Correctly During Exercise
The link between working hard and respiration is pretty well-established: The harder your body works, the more oxygen is needed, and the harder you will…
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Calisthenics: Bodyweight Workout for Home Fitness Clients
Change and uncertainty can be extremely unsettling. When life falls out of its natural rhythm and we don’t know when it will return, it’s hard…
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Isometric Towel Workout
There are three different types of muscular contractions: concentric (shortening of the muscle), eccentric (lengthening of the muscle) and isometric (muscle doesn’t change length and…
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Trying Tai Chi: A Novel Approach to Staying Active at Home
With all that’s going on courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic and measures like quarantine and fitness facility closures to ‘flatten the curve’ or slow its…
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Virtual Training for At-Home Exercise: Adapting Workouts
Modifying exercises can be simple enough if you know what to look for. However, hosting virtual personal training sessions and then modifying exercises can seem…
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Partner Workouts in the Virtual (or Social Distancing) World
Born out of necessity due to the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual training sessions quickly became a saving grace in the fitness industry, and finding a way…
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Jumping Rope: Benefits and Implementation
Whether you’re looking to expand your personal training repertoire or want to offer group fitness clients more options, or maybe just want a way to…
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Building a Strong Core Foundation
A house requires a strong foundation to remain standing. So, too, does the human body. Help your clients cultivate this all-important core foundation! As trainers,…
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The Oft Overlooked Exercise Sliders
Exercise sliders, or sometimes called gliders, may appear underwhelming, perhaps overlooked on the gym racks, but are surprisingly versatile. This simple, lightweight duo can revolutionize…
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The Bear Crawl Does it All
The focus of the most effective training program personal trainers design should be on the movement, not the muscles. This is why you might see…
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Drop Sets for Growth: Creative Progressive Overload
By finding creative ways to push muscles past their usual point of failure, trainers can actually accelerate a client’s muscular growth such as negatives and…
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