The lymphatic system is tied to the optimal functioning of almost every aspect of the human body. It plays a role in injury and muscle soreness. It has a function for tissue regeneration, mental...
Lymphatic System Logistics for Exercise
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CEC Articles
Category for NFPT CEC articles (continuing education credits) containing information for NFPT-certified personal trainers to earn CECs.
Eat Drink and Sleep?
When you eat and drink can affect sleep and how you sleep can impact how much and what you eat and drink. Meeting health-related goals like weight loss warrant attention to this interconnected...
Barefoot Training Basics for Personal Trainers
Do you train with your shoes off or see others doing so? Maybe at first, you just scratched your head and worried that the barefoot girl at your gym doing deadlifts might inadvertently crush her...
Understanding and Training Pectoralis Major
Knowing where pectoralis major is located, how it moves the surrounding bones, and what exercises strengthen it is essential for exercise programming. Pec major is a large muscle in the upper body...
Breathing New Life Into Clients With COPD
When a client has trouble breathing because of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), it changes the approach to physical fitness. Armed with the physiology of respiratory dysfunction,...
Seizure Safety: Exercise and the Epileptic Client
Exercise can benefit the epileptic client. Over 2.5 million Americans are currently living with epilepsy and need exercise just like everyone else. Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized...
The Importance of Activity for Children with Special Needs
Exercise programs and physical fitness centers need to accommodate children with special needs. Unfortunately, there are very few doing so. This is a problem because, over the last 10 years, the...
Time Restricted Eating and Autophagy
“The best of all medicines is resting and fasting.” – Benjamin Franklin What if there was a way to achieve better health while doing “nothing”? Perhaps Ben Franklin had it right all those years ago....
Incontinent Fitness Clients Can Reclaim Their Active Lifestyles
Some of your clients might suffer quietly from incontinence. It's an issue about which clients often hesitate to speak and it affects more people than we realize. Tactfully bringing up this...
Starting a Corporate Wellness Personal Training Business
Corporate wellness offers enormous opportunities for certified personal trainers and health coaches....and the opportunities are not boilerplate. Each business has a different culture with diverse...
