What’s More Important for Hypertrophy: Protein or Total Calories?
There seem to be conflicting opinions about what's most important to grow muscles: protein or caloric surplus. The answer is complex and shouldn't point to [...]
How to Vary Cardiovascular Training to Get Results
Running is a great conditioning tool and can be tweaked and tailored to provide many benefits and yield results that any client might be seeking. [...]
Scapular Mobility Exercises for Pull-Ups
Improving scapular mobility and correcting muscle imbalances that might prevent proper pull-up form is an essential step before teaching efficient pull-up or chin-up technique. After [...]
Top 10 Ways to “UN” Motivate Your Clients
In celebration of this UN-holiday, I thought it appropriate to share a top 10 list of how to best UNmotivate personal training clients! The goal [...]
NFPT Blog March 2019 Favorites
March ushered in more than just spring-- our blogs this month hit the hot topics of anatomy, mobility, taxes and research! Do those buzzwords not [...]
Strengthening Abdominal Muscles After Pregnancy or Surgery
The birth of a baby or any lower abdominal surgery compromises core muscle integrity making it crucial for a personal trainer to program functional movements [...]
Understanding Pelvic Tilt Muscles and Function
The pelvic tilt has two main movements and four movements in total. There are dozens of muscles involved in both the anterior and posterior pelvic [...]
Making Workout Program Adjustments When Your Client is Bored
As helpful as routine is to an organized day and even more important it is to an exercise program, what can you do if your [...]
Thoracic Mobility Exercises for Pull-Ups
Improving thoracic mobility and lengthening the latissimus dorsi are essential steps to laying a strength foundation for a pull-up progression routine. Before incorporating the following [...]
3 Ways the New Tax Law Affects Personal Trainers
Calculating and paying taxes as a personal trainer is both expensive and complicated – and even more so after the passing of the Tax Cuts [...]