Whether you’re looking to expand your personal training repertoire or want to offer group fitness clients more options, or maybe just want a way to…
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Jenna Mastrouni–NFPT Personal Trainer Spotlight
Meet Jenna, an NFPT certified trainer and yoga teacher. She’s a 27 year old mom from Maryland, and recently became a business owner, with an…
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Building a Strong Core Foundation
A house requires a strong foundation to remain standing. So, too, does the human body. Help your clients cultivate this all-important core foundation! As trainers,…
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When Should a Trainer Hire a Trainer?
Why would a trainer hire a trainer? Not to work for him or her, but to be coached in the same way we train our…
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Sharpening Your Virtual Fitness Coaching Skills
It is an interesting time to be (or become) a fitness professional. As a result of the novel coronavirus, mandated closures, and social distancing rules,…
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Functional Movement Assessments for Fitness Clients
Up until the early ’90s, fitness assessments consisted of measuring body fat, upper/lower body strength, flexibility, and anaerobic capacity. As we learned more about the…
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Intermittent Fasting: Choosing the Best Approach
It’s no secret that the health and fitness community is fraught with misinformation and fad diets. Most people are looking for an elusive miracle diet,…
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Consumer Psychology: What Fit Pros Need to Know
Personal training is a people-oriented business. Like any business that provides services to consumers, personal training relies on the professional’s ability to recruit and retain…
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This Could Be the Most Important Thing You Teach Your Clients
What a pretentious title, huh? What could possibly be so important that it is the most important thing to tell your personal training clients? Is…
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The Oft Overlooked Exercise Sliders
Exercise sliders, or sometimes called gliders, may appear underwhelming, perhaps overlooked on the gym racks, but are surprisingly versatile. This simple, lightweight duo can revolutionize…
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Mindset Over Everything
Mindset Over Everything You have probably heard a runner say that the miles you run is not the difficult part – it’s having…
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Supporting Fitness Clients through Lapses and Relapses
The journey of behavior change is a nonlinear process and clients progress and regress through several stages as they grapple with adopting new lifestyle behaviors…
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