Articles reviewing different approaches to assessments relevant for personal trainers.
If assessing ankle mobility is not on your checklist of assessments to complete with a new or existing client, you might consider adding it to your repertoire. Adequate ankle mobility is paramount...
Educating our clients on how to improve health outcomes certainly falls under the purview of health and fitness coaching. With that, explaining the relevance of body composition, the flaws of the...
Personal training clients can prepare clean meals, hydrate sufficiently, and train properly, yet still find that truly positive results elude them. What other resources may prove useful? What might...
As personal trainers we must take our due diligence to keep our clients safe and injury-free in tandem with helping them reach their goals. Before your new client picks up so much as a dumbbell, a...
Gait can be a four-letter word with unfortunate consequences if one's stride becomes disorderly or abnormal. Personal trainers who can perform a functional gait assessment will have the advantage of...
Human strides truly are what made us who we were for Paleolithic hunting and gathering ways and means. Walking and motion still make us who we are in modern days - for better or worse - with our...
Personal trainers are on a mission to assist clients on the road to fitness. Whether our clients are beginners, perhaps wanting to lose weight before a big event, elite athletes working toward...
Many personal trainers wear a health and wellness cap, with interests going far beyond exercise, though it's all interwoven. Osteoporosis and bone fractures are common issues, especially in our...
A body lacking internal hip rotation is like a car with no back wheels. Sure, it might keep going, and even steer, but it's gonna do some damage along the way. In the human body, that missing ROM...
Running is a popular form of exercise and an effective way for our clients to boost cardiovascular fitness. However, it is associated with a higher risk of overuse injury than other forms of aerobic...
