In honor of stress awareness month, let’s pause for a moment to reflect on how stress and sleep are intertwined, and how we can support…
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Inner Fitness: How Altruism Keeps Us Healthy
A healthy diet, exercise, and screening for disease will always remain the cornerstones for lifelong health. Yet many experts — including, apparently, the well-respected late…
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How to Do a Standing Cable Pullover
While pull-ups and pull-downs reign supreme when building strength and size (as all compound exercises do) on the lats, sometimes we need to offer variations…
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Bloodborne Pathogen Standard: Hepatitis B Vaccination and Exposure Follow-up Procedures
According to OSHA’s bloodborne pathogen standards, the hepatitis B vaccination series must be made available to all employees who have occupational exposure. The employer does…
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Mixology 101: Combining Protein Powder with Hot Liquids
In order for our personal training clients to build muscle, one must consume a significant amount of lean protein, often in the form of protein…
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Body pH: How to Obtain Optimal Health Balancing Acid and Alkaline Foods
The body is a complex machine, with so much chemistry and physiology involved in its optimal performance (or lack thereof) the average person would be…
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Rejecting the Standard American Diet for Optimal Health (Part II)
Balancing the body’s pH levels may be almost entirely dependent on the food we eat. In order to enjoy optimal health, we must embrace the…
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Blake Sama–NFPT Personal Trainer Spotlight
Blake Sama, an NFPT-CPT for 15 years, was born and raised in Arlington, Mass., a suburb of Boston. He moved into the city for school…
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Setting Boundaries: Identifying the Non-Negotiables for Your Personal Training Business
Starting a business is a challenge many newly certified fitness professionals are hesitant to take on. It makes sense – it’s not really a science…
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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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Fit-fluencer Red Flags
One of the downsides of social media is the upcropping of the fitness influencer. These “trainers” grow in number of followers and scientific blunders by…
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Bootcamp Workout Idea: The “10 to 1”
When it comes to running a Bootcamp, it’s common for the instructor to refer to the traditional formats – either a traditional circuit or…
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