Tips for Working From Home
Whether you’ve been working from home for years or for weeks, you know that working in the same place where you cook, sleep, and spend…
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NFPT Live: Four Things That Are Making People Fat – Ep 15
You probably know about these four fat loss factors. Tune in to expand your understanding of how they prevent you from helping some people lose…
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Are Your Clients Sabotaging Their Fitness Efforts?
Most fitness clients have loosely defined, but well-intended, fitness goals that they hope to reach by working with a personal trainer. These goals are often…
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What is Metabolic Age?
As health and fitness professionals, we spend a significant amount of time studying and discussing metabolism. To our clients, this simply means how many calories…
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Hormones and Fitness: How Sex Hormones Influence Exercise
The relationship between hormones and fitness is complex and oft-ignored which may impact personal training client motivation and performance. Understanding it may help break through…
READ MOREPreventing Muscle Loss To Burn Fat
It is thought by many that you can eat less and move more to get to that leaner physique. Seems simple right? Well sorta. As…
READ MOREIs There a ‘Male Menopause’? Testosterone Decreases with Age
Is there a ‘Male Menopause’? The accurate answer to this question, of course, is no, as menopause refers to the cessation of menstruation in women. However once a man reaches the age of 30, the testosterone production in his body will decrease by an average rate of 1-2% per year.
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Five Rules for Building Muscle
One of the primary cited goals fitness clients have is to build more muscle. After all, the benefits of resistance training and adding lean tissue…
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12 Questions New Clients Ask Personal Trainers
In an effort to gain a client’s confidence, we need to be prepared for just about any question new clients ask personal trainers that are…
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6 Factors That Affect Health Separate from Body Size or Weight
When weight loss is the only goal for a personal training client, it’s natural for them to focus solely on the number on the scale.…
READ MORE2017 June Self Test Packet (PDF)
2017 June Self Test Packet (PDF) Download the full self test packet to prepare for the test to earn your free CECs.
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The Stress and Injury Link
As trainers, our clients will often share with us details about their lives outside of the time we are training together including stress surrounding home…
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