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...
What To Do if a Client Crosses a Line
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Client Relationships
Learn more about how to navigate personal trainer and client relationships.
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...
Motivating Behavior with Emotions
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 Personal Training Clients On Your Schedule
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...
The Dark Side of Extreme Fat Loss
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...
How to Help Athletes Overcome Fear
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...
Answering Fitness Client Questions Confidently
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...
Apply a Hands-On Approach to Personal Training
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...
Social Support for Exercise Success
A workout buddy, an encouraging friend, a running club, or positive family member, – call it what you wish, but these are all forms of what we call social support. Social support is an important...
Personal Trainer: Motivator and Mentor
An effective Personal Trainer needs to be both a motivator and a mentor. You need to provide the right mixture of understanding and discipline. By nature, I am very empathetic to other peoples...
