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Developing a strong relationship with a client is essential to form trust and influence change. How comfortable should you get and where is the line? Erik Hageman joins us to provide insight from a...
Get your clients committed to their fitness goals. Boost motivation too! Ask questions that push your clients to think about exercise differently. Finding out WHY they want to exercise is important...
Personal trainers, like every other person on the planet, have their moments of making silly remarks or insensitive comments to their clients. We are human, which means we are fallible....
There’s nothing like a few holiday buffets and travel plans to threaten clients’ progress towards their fitness goals. But what if we started using the most available and immediate tool we have to...
Find out if you possess any or all of the fifteen traits and values necessary for thriving as a personal trainer. Then see if you pass the three common tests of professionalism that every personal...
Research has continually demonstrated that social support is a predictor of success in any behavior change program. You are a huge source of social support for your clients. In order to elevate...
We all wish to put our best foot forward, and present ourselves in the most flattering light to the world around us. Yet somewhere along the line society has stripped us of our right to decide just...
Listen to this article: Shame on body shaming. What does being “fit” and “healthy” actually mean? Does it mean having the “perfect body”? And perfect by what or whose standards? Does being...
The most important function you serve as a Certified Personal Trainer is to be a positive motivator and advisor. Anyone can go onto YouTube and learn proper exercise form or get diet and exercise...
As a Certified Personal Trainer people will often say to you that they don’t have enough will power to reach their fitness goal. Their belief is that some people have a natural ability to deny...
