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How to Create Your Niche as a Personal Trainer
Personal training is becoming a more and more popular career choice. As the market becomes more saturated, you have to consider ways to make yourself…
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Ten Reasons Why Start-up Fitness Studios Fail
Opening your own fitness studio is a complicated and challenging task. To be successful, you must consider everything from start-up costs to monthly overhead to…
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How to Execute a Hip Bridge
When you walk into the gym, there is no shortage of glute exercises being done in every corner of the facility with every piece of…
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Harnessing BDNF: How Exercise Can Improve Brain Function
The effects of exercise are far-reaching when it comes to overall health and wellness, and science is revealing more and more every day. Most compelling…
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Are Your Clients Sabotaging Their Fitness Efforts?
Most fitness clients have loosely defined, but well-intended, fitness goals that they hope to reach by working with a personal trainer. These goals are often…
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Water In, Water out: The Value of Sweating and Hydrating
Sweating is our body’s natural cooling system. It keeps our temperature in check working on an automatic internal thermostat. I like to think of our…
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How to Convert a New Member Consultation to a Paying Client
New member consultations are an opportunity to work with a population that will benefit tremendously from a trainer’s expertise that might have otherwise missed out.…
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Understanding Shoulder Instability: The Anatomy and the Pathology
The shoulder is the most versatile joint of our body and allows motion of our arms in pretty much every direction, but this instability also…
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Mindful Eating 101
Helping our clients develop skillsets to adopt healthy lifestyle habits is within the purvue of health coaching and personal training. The practice of mindful eating…
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Four Crucial Tips for Sustainable Weight Loss
It is a difficult endeavor to lose weight, and even more difficult to maintain progress after the goal has been met. Clients are often outcome-focused…
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Isometrics Programming: Exploring Optimal Approaches
Isometrics refer to exercises wherein the muscles are producing force in the absence of movement. Think about pushing or pulling against immovable resistance, like a…
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