If you’ve ever suffered a stress fracture, then you know that pain: the aching, often stabbing sensation in the shins, reminding us we overdid it…
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Category: Injury Prevention and Treatment
Lower Leg Pain: Finding a Leg to Stand On
“Not having a leg to stand on” is an adage for lacking physical support. Clients may experience physical pains or medical conditions of their lower…
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Eastern and Western Herbs for Recovery
How might supplementing with herbs for recovery help our personal training clients? Post-exercise recovery can be sorely underrated (no pun intended). We as personal trainers…
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Mobility Training
Mobility training assists clients with stability, active and passive range of motion, and strength. There are many benefits and outcomes rolled into this type of…
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Recognizing Concussion in Combat Sports
In karate, kickboxing and/or mixed martial arts the two contenders bow to one another, acknowledging to the other that contusions, knockouts, and lacerations are inherent…
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Posture Correctors: Are They Useful?
Good posture is always an advantage for personal training clients looking to start training and get fit. It allows them to assume the proper posture…
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Avoiding Lifting Injuries
As fitness professionals, we accept the premise that most serious strength-training athletes and bodybuilders will experience injuries at some point in time. Within a 1-year…
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Elbow Pain and Therapy
Elbow pain and tendonitis occur more often for certain activities and occupations than for our general population. Hinging incidences are much higher for clients who…
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Recovery for Athletes
Personal trainers should be well-versed in all cutting-edge treatments related to recovery and general health, especially when such treatments can be utilized by athletes or…
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Stability Training: Load vs Platform
Balance and stability can be considered the foundations of fitness. Our best programs consist of proper progressions, from a long-term design perspective, and for each…
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Training Load, Injury, and Athletic Performance: Mastering the Trifecta
When training an athlete toward peak/competitive performance whether post-rehabilitation or from current ability, training load must exceed capacity. With carefully planned increases in load, the…
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How Personal Trainers Can Handle Injured Clients Return to Exercise
As trainers, a lot of our work involves doing all we can to prevent injuries from occurring. Unfortunately, injuries still happen both under our watch…
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