Valentine's Day rolls around, allowing us as trainers the opportunity to guide clients to focus on loving exercise. This might seem like a big hurdle, but it is possible for clients to find a...
Having policies in place as a fitness professional is vital to establishing boundaries early on when working with a client. But oftentimes, we learn as we go and don’t realize the need for a...
My experience as a health and exercise professional started in 2003 after graduating with my bachelor’s in Exercise Science and achieving my first certification (NSCA-CPT). Early on in this...
The average age of over half of personal training clients is 45 years old. Over the past 13 years as a personal trainer, I've had the pleasure to train a large number of clients including a majority...
For our clients who have experience working out in fitness centers pre-pandemic, they will likely see modifications since the pandemic. Trainers can assist clients with navigating through these new...
For fitness clients living with obesity and struggling to successfully lose weight, bariatric surgery may be an option they consider. Personal trainers should be informed on weight loss procedures,...
Training a runner? Here is why hip stability should be a primary focus of your personal training program! Did you know it is estimated that the average person who runs a marathon takes anywhere...
Turning paying fitness clients into staying clients requires as much finesse as it does the appropriate application of science. Just because you get the client in the door or on the screen, is not a...
How might supplementing with herbs for recovery help our personal training clients? Post-exercise recovery can be sorely underrated (no pun intended). We as personal trainers need to honor its...
Do you ever get frustrated trying to get clients to do an exercise correctly? I certainly have. Sometimes I ask myself if I said too much or not enough, which perhaps lead to confusion and a...
