As trainers, we have many goals for our diverse client base. Most trainees are striving to improve body composition, lose weight, increase endurance, and in general become healthier versions of...
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CEC Articles
Category for NFPT CEC articles (continuing education credits) containing information for NFPT-certified personal trainers to earn CECs.
Speed of Resistance Training: Fast Or Slow The Way To Go?
Working with personal training clients can be one of the most rewarding experiences of a fitness career. Based on our knowledge and years of experience, we realize there are many theories on...
Keep Fitness Clients Active Through Allergy Season and Year Round
Allergies can interfere with staying active in the summer. And just when you thought you got used to summer allergies, the seasons are about to change again with fall approaching! Going indoors...
The Importance of Exercise in Lung Cancer Research
There's a good reason why Carol Michaels was awarded with Personal Trainer of the Year at the Idea World Fitness Convention this month. Cancer effects everyone. She's tapped into the needs of this...
Foreshadowing: Can Prehab Prevent Rehab?
The human body was designed to move. We are functioning at our very best when we take advantage of the blessing of mobility, and allow ourselves to become any “verb” that strikes our fancy. In fact,...
Experience vs. Education: What Do Clients Really Value?
As I was preparing to take my certification exam, a trainer at the gym shared with me a very profound tenet of the industry: “Clients don’t care how much you know, as long as they know you care.”...
Gluteus Minimus – Three of Three Glutes
Everybody knows the "glutes" are the largest muscle in the body. BUTT...they're not just one muscle. It's time to meet the smallest glute! It seems like an oxymoron doesn't it? small GLUTE. The...
Comprehensive Karate Training
In combat and/or self-defense there is a need to understand how to develop a rock solid skeletal musculature to avoid the trauma, yes the trauma of being hit. When the body is hit the...
The Java Jolt: Fitness Friend or Foe?
I will fully admit to being somewhat of a coffee snob. Preferring Starbuck’s beans to just about all others, I have been brewing it at home for years. One of the greatest gadgets we have in our home...
Gluteus Medius: Two of Three Glutes
Everybody knows the "glutes" are the largest muscle in the body. BUTT...they're not just one muscle. In total, your glutes incude three muscles that each have 2-3 sections. In total, you have...
