In our daily attempts to live healthy and productive lives, it helps to realize that good health encompasses so much more than just exercise and having a fit body. Fitness, health, and wellness...
Advice to Personal Trainers
Personal Trainers Can Positively Influence Public Health Initiatives
Physical inactivity, and the health problems that follow in its wake, recently attained pandemic status. Addressing this problem falls under the category of a global public health priority. Many...
Creating Inclusive Spaces for Fitness Clients
Fitness, when presented properly and professionally, boasts the capacity to transcend borders, cultures, and backgrounds. However, despite its universal appeal, the fitness industry as a whole often...
Top 10 Ideas for Trainers and Their Post-Menopausal Clients
Fitness encompasses more than a woman’s physical body. It extends to her emotions, her spirit, and her unique definition of self. Women deserve to celebrate their lives at any age; however, when the...
Powering Through Perimenopause With Strength Training
Perimenopause, the transitional period before menopause, signals the lessening of estrogen levels in a female’s body. During this phase of life, which in some women can last for years,...
Keeping Clients Engaged and Motivated: A Trainer’s Guide
Client retention is the backbone of a successful personal training business. While expertise in exercise science is crucial, it's the ability to inspire and motivate clients that truly sets trainers...
Trainers Can Go Beyond Exercise and Integrate the Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine into Client Workouts
Lifestyle medicine, a branch of evidence-based healthcare emphasizing disease prevention over curative medicine, seems greatly underemphasized in today’s Western medicine approach. Lifestyle...
Become a Full-Time Personal Trainer: Transitioning from Another Career
Transitioning to a new career in personal training from your current, bill-paying career doesn't have to be as threatening as, say, walking a tightrope. But, there are some things to consider that...
Giving DNA its Due: Designing a Genetically-Based Workout Program
As personal trainers -- and those aspiring to the field -- surely know, every client with whom we interact deserves a personalized program in order to achieve results. The stepping stones on this...
Are you Holistically Fit?
Holistic health reaches beyond the physical body, encompassing emotional, mental, social, spiritual, environmental, occupational, and intellectual health. A holistically healthy outlook views and...