Meet Stacey Mercure, a passionate fitness enthusiast with a remarkable journey spanning 21 years as a dedicated NFPT trainer. At the age of 53, she…
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Category: Certified Personal Trainers
What Is the Optimal Training Volume and Intensity for Strength Gains? Is More Actually Less?
Volume, frequency, and load all factor into a successful resistance training program. Many personal training clients ask how often they should work out, how intensely,…
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Weight Loss Drugs Crash the Health and Fitness Industry: What Personal Trainers Should Know
As a personal trainer, you may have heard of the weight loss drugs that have hit the market in the last few years and have…
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Exercise of the Week: Vertical Lever Row
Emphasis The primary muscles stressed in this movement are the muscles in your upper back (latissimus dorsi and rhomboids). The secondary muscles stressed are the…
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Squat Variations to Help Your Clients Improve Form and Strength
As a personal trainer, you know that squats are an essential exercise for building lower body strength. However, some clients may struggle with the movement…
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Benefits of Low-Impact Exercise
Low-impact exercises are physical activities that minimize stress on the joints while still providing cardiovascular, strength, and flexibility benefits (Tse et al., 2015). What is…
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Involving the Whole Muscle Cell in Holistic Training
In holistic exercise, the focus rests not on isolating a specific muscle or body part, but rather on strengthening all the muscles in the body…
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Curious About Quercetin? Its Benefits May Surprise You
Quercetin, a supplement commonly found on health-food store shelves, also seems of interest to those in the exercise/sports realm. Here we aim to provide an…
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Reframing Energy Management: Strength Training as the Foundation of Professional Performance
In today’s hyper-connected and cognitively demanding world, the ability to manage one’s energy—not just one’s time—is emerging as the ultimate performance advantage. Nowhere is this…
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Channeling Stress Towards Athletic Excellence
In the competitive sports arena, athletes can encounter a multitude of stressful situations from a variety of different sources. Regular exposure to such stressors can negatively…
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Tracking and Measuring Success in Muscle-Centric Training
Throughout this series exploring the empirical evidence surrounding Dr. Gabrielle Lyon’s (2022) Muscle-Centric Medicine (MCM) paradigm, we’ve explored the profound role of skeletal muscle in…
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10 Minutes to Better Fitness with HIIT Workouts
Evidence-based scientific guidelines suggest that exercise ranks as an ideal non-pharmaceutical strategy in the prevention/management of chronic diseases. Despite these well-documented benefits, 33% of adults…
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