Client Motivation: How Trainers Can Help
Who chooses a personal trainer and why? Most always, it’s someone motivated toward improvement. Whether it’s fitness, health, weight loss or an overall self-esteem booster, [...]
Recommending Proper Footwear for Fitness Clients
I’m often asked what brand of exercise shoe I prefer. While I’m loyal to ASICS, I know plenty of fans of Brooks, Adidas, Puma, Nike, [...]
Scope of Practice for the Fitness Professional: Upselling Products and Services
Personal training is a business. Therefore, a large part of personal training is selling your services to potential clients. If you don’t effectively recruit new [...]
Top Ten NFPT Blogs From 2019
If you've waited until New Year's Eve to check out our awesome fitness pro blog, well, you picked a good day. Below are the most [...]
NFPT Blog December 2019 Favorites
The holiday season bombards us annually with shopping deals, boughs of holly, and Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas". You may also have come [...]
Alleviating Clients’ Holiday Guilt
This time of year is notoriously harried, fraught with culinary delights, and sparse on physical exertion--for most, that is. We've certainly accounted for the personal [...]
Leverage SMR For Longer Lasting And More Efficient Results
We as fitness professionals most likely employ self-myofascial release (SMR) or static release techniques with most of our clients, but we could probably get more [...]
PRP Part 3- The Final Results
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Therapy is a process whereby a medically trained professional can draw your own blood, spin it in a centrifuge, and separate [...]
Understanding Cavitation and Tension Adjustments: What’s all that cracking and popping?
Snapping hips, crackling knees, popping knuckles...all part of the human experience. Fully decoding these noisy joints may never come to pass for the technology required [...]
Kettlebell Drills You Haven’t Tried Yet
If you are looking to add variety and excitement to your workouts, give these unique kettlebell exercises a go! These are guaranteed to challenge you [...]