Hormones and Obesity: How Does Satiety Affect Weight?
Obesity ranks as one of the most serious public health challenges today. Despite the best efforts of fitness/nutrition professionals, as many as 1.6 billion adults…
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Personal Training Pricing – How to Set Your Rates
Before you analyze your competition and current market prices there is one crucial foundational component of setting your rates to consider. Many personal trainers set…
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How To Handle Embarrassing Client Moments
We’ve all been there–your client does something he or she finds embarrassing and you must handle the moment with grace and aplomb. If you are…
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Fitness Programming – A 5D Approach
Most personal trainers cover 4 of the 5 dimensions of fitness programming – muscular strength, endurance, cardiorespiratory fitness, and flexibility. But, are rest days part of…
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Andrew Seaton–NFPT Personal Trainer Spotlight
Meet Andrew Seaton, an NFPT-CPT who has spent most of his life on the Main Line, just outside of Philadelphia. A collegiate swimmer at Bates…
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How the Les Mills Gen Z Study Can Ignite Your Personal Training Business
In 2023 Les Mills Gen Z conducted a study titled, “Gen Z Fitness: Cracking the Code” based on a survey of over 4,000 Gen Z…
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Five Common Questions Fitness Clients Ask
Fitness clients are naturally curious about the structure and function of the body – especially as they begin to see and feel the physical adaptations…
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The Role of a Personal Trainer
Succeed as a certified personal trainer by maintaining a working knowledge of exercise science, fitness program design and motivation techniques to move your clients toward improved fitness and health overall.
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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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What happens when certified personal trainers provide exercise possibilities are brought to marginalized and underserved communities? According to the US Census Bureau, the number of…
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Designing an Adaptive Program for a Client with Multiple Sclerosis
I currently intern in the Fitness department of the YMCA in Dublin, Ireland while studying for my personal training certification. I had an opportunity recently to take part in the development of a program for a client with very unique needs due to a serious, degenerative, illness: Multiple Sclerosis.
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Crafting a Better Backside: Understanding Anatomy for Strength-Training the Glutes
As the largest muscle group in the body, glutes comprise the major part of the buttocks. These muscles, vital for athletic performance, also come into…
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