While it is tempting to set super-sized goals for the New Year, what your personal training clients might need most is to set habit-oriented goals to give them a super-sized lifestyle. When it comes to developing a lifestyle behavior change like regular exercising and...
Hanna Riley
Hanna Riley B.S. in Kinesiology, NFPT CPT is a passionate trainer, writer, and graphic designer. Hanna's greatest passion is working with people who want to better themselves physically, mentally, and spiritually. She believes that we are all stronger than we think and she aspires to extend patience, kindness, education, self-motivation, confidence to her clients to help them unleash their strength. For more from Hanna, connect on social media on Facebook as Hanna Riley and Instagram as @house.ofhanna.
New Year, New View of Yourself
Kick off New Year’s fitness goals for yourself and clients with a healthy body image in mind. Many people set new years goals like, “I’m going to lose 20 pounds, I’m going to get six pack abs, I’m going to fit into a Size 2 etc.” While setting goals that lead to...
Time-Saving Tech for Personal Trainers
You may think that your hours spent planning your social media posts, developing detailed exercise programming, and answering phone calls from potential clients is productive time, but there is likely a lot of wasted time spent in all of those processes. A few minutes...
How to Improve Body Image
As a personal trainer, it’s likely that each day you hear some of your clients make negative comments about their bodies. You may even have a difficult time finding kind words to say about your own body. As a health professional, and trusted individual to your...
How to Create Fitness Photos and Graphics for Social Media
Follow these guidelines to attract new personal training clients with your social media photos and graphics. Start with good photos, create a uniform look and design with purpose. As an amateur graphic designer and photographer, I have frequently pondered how to...
What to Expect When You’re Expecting to take a CPT exam
To some, becoming a Certified Personal Trainer sounds like it's a breeze. Trainers workout frequently, maintain excellent health, and all of their friends ask them for fitness advice. How hard could it possibly be? For others, becoming an exercise professional sounds...
Specificity Training – What and Why
Without this key element, training just isn't quite as personal. Specificity is one of the most important elements in client training programs and a big part of helping them to reach their goals, whether it be training for a sport, losing weight, or working on...
10 Exercises to Get Fit While Traveling
Traveling induces the temptation to kick back and forget all about your fitness routine in even the most dedicated of us. Though it may be easier for you to keep up your training while traveling, it may not be so simple for your clients. Maybe their hotel room is too...
Using Client Competitions and Incentives for Personal Training
Competition. It’s not just something for professional athletes and fitness models. If you’ve ever had your client’s make goals, do a timed workout, exercise in group settings, you may begin to notice that they might be a little competitive. Even the slightest...
Developing Positive Body Image: Using Psychology in the Gym
One challenge you can expect to face in your career as a personal trainer will be the disparity between clients who feel very confident in their own skin and clients who face a lot of body dissatisfaction. When these clients approach you with body image issues, or...
4 Personal Training Package Pricing Ideas
Sometimes you get a new client like Jim and all the signals point towards go! Jim is motivated and expresses determination to reach his fitness goals. As a bonus, one of your other clients referred him to you. This situation seems very optimistic doesn't it? Here's...