Fitness articles related to health behaviors and psychology as it relates to motivation, sports psychology and other factors affecting wellness.
If you do something long enough, it will eventually stick with you. This goes for not-so-beneficial choices like watching TV all day, every day, or it can lead to instilling healthy habits like...
As trainers, our clients will often share with us details about their lives outside of the time we are training together including stress surrounding home life, work, relationships, or as parents....
If exercising is so good for us, then why is it so hard to get people to workout? We experience hunger, and feel satisfaction after we eat. We feel thirst, and quench it with water. But how do we...
Tracking steps, physical activity, food consumption, and water intake offers a great self-monitoring approach. Fortunately, there are multiple fitness tracking devices and free apps on the market...
The COVID-19 pandemic hit our world and industry with an unexpected force. As a result, most businesses/jobs found ways to work remotely as social distancing became the go-to recommendation. Schools...
Using a sleep journal re-connects a person to their habits and can make a difference in one week. If your clients ever mention a rough night of sleep, that’s your cue to investigate this otherwise undercover aspect of health by using a sleep journal.
When we first meet with a client, it is standard practice of effective personal trainers to have goal-setting exploratory discussions; you can't know where to lead your client if you have no idea...
Trainers must be aware of, and address both the hero and villain aspects of post-exercise inflammation, which we refer to as exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD). Among several points to be mindful...
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller Unlike lean muscle mass and a sculpted body, traditional yoga is...
Simple daily goals eventually form long-term lifestyle change. Setting them is a cognizant decision that’s repeated to instill habit. Starting small allows success to flourish in the bigger picture....
