Goal-setting is a powerful tool, if it is applied and executed appropriately. To help identify personal training goals with your clients, you must be adept at applying the goal-setting process to...
Advice to Personal Trainers
Fitness Product Reviews – 6 Steps to Evaluating Quality
How do you evaluate the quality of fitness products and equipment? That’s a loaded question. And the answer is equally as loaded. When it comes to evaluating the quality, efficacy, and utility of a...
The Difference Between Try and Triumph
The word "helpful" seems to be weaved within the role of personal trainer. Making a difference in the lives of others happens naturally in this field. However, being a truly triumphant trainer is...
Keep Your Clients Fit When the Winter Blues Hit
Keeping your appointment book full through the end of winter benefits you and your clients. The snow is still falling and so is your client’s enthusiasm to keep up with their personal training...
6 Easy Ways to Make Client Workouts More Fun
You love working out—that’s why you’re a personal trainer. Your clients, however, likely feel differently. Get them excited about their next workout with these simple ideas. You’ll have fun hitting...
Show Off Your Body Imperfections
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...
Mindful Fitness – A Multifaceted Approach
Mindfulness is a term being tossed around quite a bit in casual conversation these days – "be mindful of…x, y, and z". Are we really being mindful? Or just saying so? It’s no secret, we live...
GaGa for Body Shaming
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...
An Effective Personal Training Client Retention Strategy
Your reputation depends on getting results for your clients and by extension so does your livelihood. If you injure a client, both can suffer. Positive results get you referrals, while an injury has...
5 Fitness Apps to Inspire New Ideas
Just as clients can plateau, so too can our “fresh ideas” pool. It’s early in the new year and now is the perfect time to research new and inspiring ways to shake up an old routine and breathe new...