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Personal trainers who become more involved in client workouts, initiate post-workout engagements and solicit honest feedback may find those clients achieve fitness goals more easily. Your clients'...
After recently confronting my own body image struggles, I challenge you, as personal trainers, to do the same if you also face such issues. Despite outward appearances and how our clients may...
Developing close, personal relationships with clients can cause problems and awkward situations that you didn't anticipate even though getting personal is essential to your role as a trainer. There...
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...
Willpower and self-control are easier to talk about than to cultivate consistently. They are both stellar qualities to possess but aren't an ideal go-to gameplan for long-term behavior change. What...
Keeping clients on your schedule is easier said than done. Not everyone will mesh with you. Not everyone will make fitness a priority even if they say they want to. A little extra thought and effort...
Extreme fat loss causes an emotional hangover that lingers--a quality certified personal trainers would do well to readily recognize. I used to weigh nearly 300 pounds and I still think about it...
Fear is powerful. It is as powerful as confidence. Unfortunately, fear begets a very different result. Fear is often the result of a bad experience, but it can also be ingrained in us without ever...
You can spill everything you know about a given topic when a client asks a question, you can make a guess if you don't know the answer, or you can take a clarifying and confident approach. Here’s a...
Take the hands-on approach with clients to help grow your personal training business. Results are what drives your business and results come from proper instruction and execution. What type of...
