The Effects of Alcohol on Exercise and Performance
Is it ethical to recommend alcohol to our clients? An important aspect of professional personal training includes reminding clients of how important clean eating and…
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Chakra Energy and Spiritual Healing
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen…
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Muscle-Centric Medicine in Higher Education: A New Model for Faculty Wellness
In academic settings across the country, faculty members are burning out—slowly, silently, and systemically. Despite the rise of well-intentioned faculty wellness programs featuring walking groups,…
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The 5 Top Apps to Recommend to Your Clients
We do our finances, communicate, date, and shop through our phones and computers. Why not motivate ourselves and work out with the help of technology…
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Keeping Personal Training Clients On Your Schedule
Keeping clients on your schedule is easier said than done. Not everyone will mesh with you. Not everyone will make fitness a priority even if…
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The Positive Side of Procrastination
Could there be a positive side to procrastination? Generally, the answer is expected to be “no”, given that procrastination is generally thought of as poor…
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Inversion Tables: Are They Worth It?
To invert or not to invert, that’s the question! I bought an inversion table last year because the local sporting goods store had some pretty…
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Breathing New Life Into Clients With COPD
When a client has trouble breathing because of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), it changes the approach to physical fitness. Armed with the physiology of respiratory…
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Time Off: When Clients Return from a Break in Fitness
Your client took time off and it was more than they intended, one week turned into two, two weeks turned into a month and all…
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Tracking and Measuring Success in Muscle-Centric Training
Throughout this series exploring the empirical evidence surrounding Dr. Gabrielle Lyon’s (2022) Muscle-Centric Medicine (MCM) paradigm, we’ve explored the profound role of skeletal muscle in…
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Pushing Through the Plateau: How to Help Clients Overcome Stalled Progress
Every dedicated athlete, at some point in his life, comes face-to-face with a progress plateau. The athlete’s trainer understands that the key to maintaining client…
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Three Brattiest Muscles in the Body and How to Handle Them
There are quite a few stubborn myofascial instigators that can hold clients back, but with a little know-how, any fitness professional can learn to identify…
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