Professional Trainers and many clients have started or will soon establish “new normal” patterns for exercise after our COVID-19 “gap year.” One aspect of this gap year emergence is fatigue, which NFL Coach Vince Lombardi once asserted “makes cowards of us all.”...
Dave Frost
Dave Frost has served the fitness community as a NFPT-certified CPT since 2013, and a Master Fitness Trainer since 2019.
As a Medicare-aged baby boomer, he specializes in training those clients who intend to stay “well past forty”.
He is a former world champion in Masters Rowing and National Indoor Rowing champion for his age group. He is also a group fitness instructor for The Row House. His website is https://wellpastforty.com. Dave recently published his work: KABOOMER: Thriving and Striving into your Nineties to promote stamininety for those intending to add years to their lives and life to their years.
Inflammation: Hero or Villain? (Or Both?)
Trainers must be aware of, and address both the hero and villain aspects of post-exercise inflammation, which we refer to as exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD). Among several points to be mindful of are long-term inflammation and chronic inflammatory conditions...
How to Overcome Plateaus and Manage Client Training Overloads
Trainers professionally direct training loads for their clients to enable both physical/mental adaptations for fitness gains over time. It is a near-certainty that our clients will face temporary or long-term progression gaps, also known as "plateaus" due to unique...
Senior Stretching Skills
Gender, age, and lifestyle can adversely impact client ranges of motion, flexibility, and/or safe biomechanics. Poor pandemic postures may, unfortunately, add to chronic issues which impede activities of daily life (ADL) and athletic performance. Fitness professionals...
Protecting Bones and Joints (PB&J)
It’s your job as an NFPT Trainer to help your clients reduce their lifestyle-related risk factors, which includes protecting bones and joints. Fit pros should be aware of, and situationally suggest fitness and wellness steps to reduce older clients' risks for joint...
Banking Micro-nutrients for Performance
CPTs can apply general knowledge of clients’ nutritional requirements and changing diets to capably support their muscular performance. Our skeletal muscles (which ancients called “little mice”) are chemical, motion marvels: vitamins and minerals that have been...
Addressing Joint Health: Fostering Movement and Preventing Degradation
Despite best-laid plans and intentions, winter holidays for many older clients involve less movement, added unhealthy food choices, plus more emotional stresses. With such holiday moods coupled with inactivity, those minor aches and slight pains that millions of older...
Client Pain: More Than a Sensation
We certified personal trainers can be resourceful listeners and agents to help our older clients address both pain dimensions (yes there are two: sensory and emotional). Pain comes from the Latin word poena meaning penalty. A later French word derivation is suffering,...
The Lymphatic System: Tuning the Other Half of a Client’s Circulatory System
Most older clients can and should "tune-up" their lymphatic circulation with planned exercise to better their health. Lymphatic “tune-up” is desirable in any period. Yet this focused effort may be even more critical when societal immunity is threatened by novel...
Fitness Age Gauges for Older Clients
Medicare-aged folks comprise a notable and possibly growing segment of our personal training clientele. Their calendar years may or may not reflect “gym or fitness age.”1 As our title includes “older” – just what is older? Subjectively, older is 60 years of age or...