As personal trainers, we have a unique opportunity to work behind the scenes of the worst drug epidemic in our country's history. You can positively impact individuals in recovery by teaching them how to use fitness as a tool for sobriety. As a bonus you'll help...
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Protect Your Business with Personal Trainer Legal Forms
Legal forms can easily distance you and your personal training businesses from potential liability. Forms like releases and waivers are contracts that contain exculpatory clauses or provisions that essentially state that one party (the personal trainer) is freed from...
Help Your Personal Training Clients Eat Like a Dietician
What do Registered Dietician Nutritionists (RDN) choose for their own daily eats and cheats? Find out and get suggestions for pre/post workout meals, thoughts on cleanses and simple tips to share with your clients. I had the privilege to talk with a wide range of...
Prepare Clients for Weight Loss Success With 5 Dietary Tips
Misconceptions about how to lose weight are in no short supply. Heighten your success with clients by preventing them from falling victim to the hype that clever advertisers put on labels like "diet friendly". In this post we'll debunk some of the misinformation out...
When Personal Trainers Recommend Supplements: Liability and Best Practice
While maintaining a stress-free lifestyle, healthy eating, and staying active are the best prescription for optimal health, our personal training clients aren't always able to maintain every healthful behavior that you suggest. And sometimes, even when they do, their...
Can You Reach Fitness Goals With a Clean Kitchen?
We've all heard about clean eating. Taking this one step further, is the state of your client’s kitchen jeopardizing their workout routine? Your clients are putting in the hard work at the gym while under your instruction, but during the other 15 hours of the day it’s...
Insurance and Liability Proper Exercise Form Doesn’t Always Protect Your Job
Protecting your clients is your job. Even when you're doing your best, blame can be placed unfairly. The most common type of lawsuit a trainer will face is failure to instruct. This essentially is a client suing the trainer saying they did not provide the proper...
6 Easy Ways to Make Client Workouts More Fun
You love working out—that’s why you’re a personal trainer. Your clients, however, likely feel differently. Get them excited about their next workout with these simple ideas. You’ll have fun hitting golf balls together or doing a special session with your client and...
Top 5 Superfoods Every Athlete Should Consume
Every successful athlete knows the importance of the food they ingest. After all, it’s our fuel, and without it, the engine won't run. When it comes to athletes, the demand for healthy, nutrient dense foods is exceptionally high. In fact, the difference between a...
Seven Ways to get Kids into Fitness
Ask around and you’ll see plenty of parents asking each other “How do we get our kids to stay active?” in a world where schools are cutting recess and play times, more and more neighborhoods aren’t kid-friendly, and electronics seem to be taking over as the preferred...
C’mon and Get Happy: Positive Attitude Equals Success
How can we tap into clients’ ability to succeed in order to keep them motivated to reach their wellness goals? The key may be to cultivate and support a sense of optimism and a positive frame of mind. Indeed, among many individual variables, attitude is one of the...
How to do Standing Cable Presses
The standing cable press is a great way to train the chest because it is less stress on the shoulder joint than the bench press. In addition the standing position forces the body to engage more core so you don’t fall over. It is recommended to use a cable with...
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 too? Smartphones have opened up an entire new industry for encouraging health and fitness, and these new ideas are...
How to Enjoy Your Favorite Holiday Foods Guilt-Free
With the holiday season approaching our taste buds are in full force! Pumpkin spice lattes and peppermint bark cheesecakes will begin to surround us at every corner and our salivary glands will constantly be reminded of our favorite holiday treats. Now as much as our...
How You Can Motivate Clients To Exercise
Newton’s first law of motion, also known as the law of inertia, states that an object at rest stays at rest, while an object in motion stays in motion. This continues unless acted upon by another force. Gravity is an example of a type of force. On Earth, if you jump...
How to Do a Dumbbell Bench Press
The dumbbell bench press has been implemented into almost every workout routine on the planet. Dumbbells are used instead of a bar to work on independently training each side of the body. Dumbbells require more skill and motor control. We broke it into 2 phases,...
Diastasis Recti Solutions for Fitness Professionals
Diastasis Recti is a rapidly booming pre and postnatal topic and fitness professionals must be able to intelligently address client’s needs. Diastasis represents a foundational core dysfunction that must be addressed if your client desires optimal function. Diastasis...
How To Do a Deadlift with a Barbell
The deadlift is one of the oldest and most basic exercises for developing strength and power. To this day it is still one of the most effective exercises in the gym. It can be applied to everyone from athletes to the general population. We broke it down into three...