When pain is great enough to impact exercise habits or even activities of daily life, clients may pursue medical interventions and burgeoning therapies to help…
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BFR Training: How it Works and How to Use it With Fitness Clients
If you are immersed in the world of fitness, chances are you have already heard of, or seen, or researched blood flow restriction (BFR) straps…
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The Overhead Squat: The Best Movement Assessment to Expose Muscle Imbalances
Most personal training clients arrive with muscle imbalances that need to be corrected in order to make gains and prevent injury. The most skillful of…
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Interpreting Signs of Overhead Squat Assessment: Lower Extremity Dysfunction
After getting familiar with performing an overhead squat assessment (OHSA) and noting any signs of imbalance or dysfunction, you’ll have to know what to do…
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How to Perform an Overhead Barbell Press
Execution of a standing overhead barbell press may appear to be a simple movement, but technique is often difficult to nail down due to muscle…
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Gender Bias In Trainer Selection: Helping Clients Make The Right Choice
Whether we want it to or not, gender preference often plays a role when choosing a personal trainer. Unfortunately, this can come at the expense…
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How To Do Bodyweight Dips
Performing bodyweight dips requires mastering your entire bodyweight just like its distant cousins the chin-up and the pull-up. Dips also require extensive shoulder mobility to…
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Soleus Strains: How To Recognize, Prevent and Treat
The soleus is one of the three powerful muscles of the calf that lies behind the gastrocnemius, and runs from the Achilles tendon to behind,…
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Teens Growing “Horns”: How To Help Prevent Text Neck
This just in: Teen bodies are going through changes! Perhaps not in the way you’d expect, though. A 2018 study has re-emerged, covered in the…
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Personal Training Client Types, Why They Hire You, and How to Knock Their Socks Off
For every year you’re in the fitness industry, there’s another personal training client type you will have assessed and categorized in the back of your…
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5 Lower Body Resistance Band Exercises for a Workout on the Go
Summer is officially in full swing, which means many of my clients and I have been on the road traveling. The first thing I suggest…
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Content Creation Hacks for Personal Trainers
Social media is the way to connect with people these days, especially if you desire to expand your professional presence. It’s free. It’s varied. It’s…
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