Certified Personal Trainers may work with women and men who discreetly share that they can’t sleep through the night without an incontinent trip, or trips,…
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Understanding Hypertrophy: Why Do Muscles Get Bigger?
We know that muscle will grow when properly trained and when proper nutrients are supplied. But what biological system is responsible for this growth stimulus? Is it one or is it all of them? Is growth caused by the forces applied to the muscles through weight training , or on a more cerebral level, is resistance exercise merely a means by which we expose, through recruitment, as many muscle fibers as possible to some other stimulus responsible for growth?
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Food Additives and Flavorings: How Safe Are They Really?
People are paying closer and closer attention to the labels of items they’re putting in and on their bodies now more than ever. How can…
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Bioenergetics: Aerobic versus Anaerobic Energy Production
While we are all familiar with aerobic activity, defined in the early 1970s by Dr. Kenneth Cooper as activity during which the cardiorespiratory system provides enough oxygen for muscular effort, most of us associate anaerobic activity with that very hard effort we do during intervals. The fact is that each non-sequential muscular effort, such as turning your head, entails some measure of energy production in the absence of oxygen, qualifying it as anaerobic.
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Adolescent Obesity: A Growing Epidemic of Poor Diet and Inactivity
Obesity has become a significantly increasing problem in teens and adolescents in recent years. Dietary habits and lifestyle has remarkably changed. After school, many adolescents rest near the television while doing homework or sit for hours in front of a computer, sustaining that activity with high-calorie junk foods.
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The Power of Endorphins
Runner’s “high” is so-called because of the euphoria associated with the release of feel-good chemicals in the brain, of which endorphins are one category. From…
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Osteoporosis and Exercise: What Personal Trainers Need to Know
Osteoporosis is a disease that affects millions of people globally and is characterized by weak bones and a high risk of fractures. As a certified…
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Defining General Fitness: What Burgeoning Personal Trainers Should Know
After spending countless hours in the gym lifting weights and doing aerobics, how will you know when you’re physically fit? Many of your personal training clients will tell you they just want to get fit. Therefore, it is important to know just what constitutes a general state of physical fitness.
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5 Career Options for Certified Personal Trainers
For many starting out or considering a career in personal training, the perception that career options are limited to box-gym coaching still persists despite opportunities…
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7 Signs You Would Make a Great Personal Trainer
Think you might make a great personal trainer? Some people love fitness and those that don’t like it much might hire a personal trainer. If…
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How Personal Trainers Can Better Boost Engagement and Income This Summer
Heading into Summer, personal trainers might be looking for new ways to boost engagement with new clientele and increase income. While many of us are…
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What Challenging Clients Teach You as a Personal Trainer
As personal trainers, we would love it if all clients we work with were “easy” in terms of communication, adherence, motivation, and commitment. However, we…
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