Active Recovery for Training
The vital role recovery plays in conjunction with fitness routines cannot be understated. As trainers aiming to keep clients active and injury free, we need [...]
Testing Clients During Tough Training Seasons
As a fitness professional one of my greatest fears is for all of my client’s hard work and progress to go down the drain. These [...]
How Not to Plank
Planks are well loved for their ability to target most of the core musculature. But isn’t this possible without a plank? Don’t get me wrong. [...]
Barefoot Training Basics for Personal Trainers
Do you train with your shoes off or see others doing so? Maybe at first, you just scratched your head and worried that the barefoot [...]
Outdoor Old School Workout
Shake up the training session with an “old school” approach to exercise. This is a fun way to get your client moving and eliminate boredom [...]
Proper Form for a One-Arm Dumbbell Row
The one-arm dumbbell row is a unilateral exercise that targets the lats, teres major, middle and lower trapezius, rhomboids, posterior deltoid, brachialis, biceps, and brachioradialis. [...]
Weight Lifting for Weight Loss
Female clients can use weight lifting to their advantage when wanting to lose weight. I generally don’t encourage a client’s main fitness goal to be “weight [...]
Passive Recovery for Training
Ideally, recovery happens before an injury not just after. It's part of the preventative mindset. After talking with a past client recently about struggling with adrenal [...]
Fitness Programming – A 5D Approach
Most personal trainers cover 4 of the 5 dimensions of fitness programming - muscular strength, endurance, cardiorespiratory fitness, and flexibility. But, are rest days part [...]
Proper Form for a Lat Pulldown
Exercise Name & Target Muscle Group The Lat Pulldown is a surprisingly complex exercise that involves far more than the latissimus dorsi muscle. The predominant [...]