Obesity ranks as one of the most serious public health challenges today. Despite the best efforts of fitness/nutrition professionals, as many as 1.6 billion adults…
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Category: Physiology
Metabolic Syndrome and Safety Markers for Fitness Clients
Why do personal training clients often feel as though or perceive that they are not making weight loss progress? As fitness professionals, we must consider…
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Postactivation Potentiation: Unleash Your Clients’ Full Capabilities
Any trainer working with clients long-term should be focused on developing increased power, strength, or speed through safe means. After guiding a client through a…
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Homeostasis-pH Testing and Urine Color
We recently discussed body pH levels, how they may influence health, and how lifestyle choices and dietary influences might affect those pH levels. Commonly accepted…
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Enhance Muscular Strength with Krill Oil
Omega-3 fatty acids offer a cornucopia of health benefits, including anti-inflammatory properties, improvements in joint pain, better brain health, and improved cardiac function. Still, 98%…
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Zinc Can Add a Zing To Building Muscle
In the world of fitness, we can cover topics from A to Z, starting with Aerobic exercises and ending with the focus of today’s article,…
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The Physiology of Fat Loss: Understanding the Hierarchy
Fat loss training can be very confusing for our personal training clients and even for their coaches, but it doesn’t have to be. Unfortunately, a…
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The Importance of Post-Workout Meal Timing: Myth or Mandatory?
Prudent personal trainers know that both training stimuli and nutrient consumption affect hypertrophy gains. Training increases protein synthesis, but it may also activate muscle protein…
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What is Cellulite and Why Do Women Get It?
As a woman and a fitness professional, I have both “suffered” with and fielded countless questions about cellulite. If you as a personal trainer serve…
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The Benefits of Mindful Exercise: Embracing a Healthy Exercise Mindset
The benefits of mindfulness infrequently require much repeating, but suffice it to say, they are far-reaching. How can personal trainers teach clients to marry mindfulness…
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NAD+: Reprogramming the Aging Process
Clients seek out the expertise of personal trainers for a variety of reasons: to lose weight, increase strength, improve endurance, and often simply to feel…
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Five Physiological Tips For Sleep
Sleep, although a natural process, is a really complex one, not always coming “naturally”. In a well-performed musical, all the actors and actresses need to…
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