Category for NFPT CEC articles (continuing education credits) containing information for NFPT-certified personal trainers to earn CECs.
What’s on your mind when you exercise? We all exercise for different reasons. Sometimes our reasons vary with the workout itself: perhaps we prefer training biceps and triceps instead of quads,...
Everybody knows the "glutes" are the largest muscle in the body. BUTT...they're not just one muscle. In total, your glutes are made up of three muscles that each have 2-3 sections. In total, you...
Generally when people say “stability” they mean strength. They sometimes mean the “smaller” muscles in the body. With 600 muscles in the human body there are a lot of stabilizers! What is Stability?...
"Ready, get set, go!" Does this phrase excite you or make you want to crawl under a rock? Some people love competition. Others run from it (which could be a competition of it's own). If you're...
THE BODY’S PROTECTIVE ROLE AGAINST XENOBIOTICS From my article on body fat we learned:3 As discussed earlier fat cells serve a purpose to capture excess lipids from the plasma and liver. Fat cells...
Now that we are in the swing of 2016, we are no doubt observing what I refer to as “The January Effect”: an influx of new members in our Fitness Centers, eager to jump-start their resolutions. As is...
The purpose of this article is two-fold, first to review the fact that we live in a toxic environment and that fat cells are used as a repository for toxins; second to understand the need for...
The rotator cuff is a group of four muscles that all attach from the superior (upper) humerus to the scapula bone in different places. Three of the muscles rotate the humerus externally (outward)...
“All things in moderation.” This oft-cited phrase is believed to date from ancient times and remains relevant today. Take for example, the principle of energy balance used in diet in exercise that...
We know that exercise has the power to change our outward shape. But the findings of a new study offer insight into how it changes the shape of our inner workings at the genome level and how that...
