Recognizing and Correcting Gluteal Dysfunction
Gluteal dysfunction can be a common problem among our personal training clients and can lead to a cascade of other kinetic chain issues if not…
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Cardiovascular and Respiratory Disease: How Personal Trainers Can Help
Exercise may feel difficult or even scary for individuals with cardiovascular and respiratory disease or problems. As personal trainers, you may have questions about how…
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Exercise and the Gastrointestinal System: How Digestion is Affected by Movement
Clients and athletes who experience diarrhea and/or other digestive problems after an intense training session often ask us the reason for this unpleasant intestinal interruption.…
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Functional Training: Why Your Clients Need It
Functional training enables clients to do daily tasks more easily. It involves strength training utilizing more than one muscle group through compound exercises and, oftentimes,…
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How CBD Interacts with Pre-Workout Supplements
Workout supplements aim to improve endurance, enhance exercise efficiency, and help to quickly achieve athletic performance goals(1). Some of the ingredients used in these supplements…
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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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Sneezin’ Season: Should You Exercise When Sick?
Have you been suffering too many colds this season? Is your “healthy” exercise program compromising your immune system? Or is exercising while you are under…
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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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Building Cellular Health
Challenges to physiological homeostasis. “Modern Medicine sometimes forgets that technology is not a replacement for the body’s innate ability to heal itself” 1 Two Basic Principles…
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Collateral Vascular Damage: A Good or Bad Thing For Building Muscle?
The term “collateral damage” is typically a military term, one that denotes unintended damage to an area around a target. But as it applies to resistance training, collateral damage can be a good thing.
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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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