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Exercise Programming
Exercise programming articles to give personal trainers ideas and inspiration for training their clients.
The Planes of Motion: Creating a 3D Approach to Personal Training
The human body is meant to move in all directions – forward, backward, side to side, up, down, and rotationally. In other words, the body exists and functions on a 3-dimensional plane. The term...
Muscle Activation: What It Is and How to Program It
If you're a fitness professional you may have heard the term "muscle activation" or have even used it in your personal training practice as a means to help correct movement pattern dysfunctions....
Spot Reduction: Discussing What’s Actually Possible With Fitness Clients
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if a person could get rid of excess fat found on one specific part of their body by working the muscle directly beneath the fat? That is exactly what many of our fitness...
Negative Lifting For Strength and Hypertrophy: Creative Progressive Overload
Introducing your strength-training clients to negative lifting, aka, employing negatives, might be a progressive overload approach worth considering, especially if you’re helping them to push...
IT Band Syndrome: It’s Not Your IT Band!
Whether your clients have complained about it being tight or you’ve experienced it firsthand, the IT band is searched popularly on YouTube and commonly among those who exercise regularly. Aside from...
Isometrics: Immovable Forces Toward Strength and Growth
Personal training is not always about how much weight a client can lift. Sometimes lifting no weight at all can challenge a client in new and different ways. This is the beauty of isometrics....
What Are The Ideal Rest Intervals For Specific Training Goals?
Ideal rest is a vital component of exercise, not only between training sessions but also between sets during a workout. Following the completion of a set of exercises, the body must “clear out” the...
The 4 Keys to Injury Prevention Programming
At some point in your fitness career, you will encounter clients who are suffering or who have suffered from an injury – either related to exercise or as a result of some other event. Although...
Interpreting Signs of Overhead Squat Assessment: Upper Body Dysfunction
Upper body dysfunction (UBD) may appear upon observation as simple shoulder dysfunction, as has been suggested with models such Upper Crossed Syndrome. But the glenohumeral (GH) joint does not...