Exercise programming articles to give personal trainers ideas and inspiration for training their clients.
Nothing predicts dreaded plateaus like the same workout routine over and over again. A plateau occurs when your client ceases to gain any recognizable progress in the fitness journey. This may be...
You can identify and offset the deleterious effects of sitting by understanding the muscles and mechanics involved with upper and lower crossed syndrome. It’s no surprise that most Americans spend...
It’s ironic that High-Intensity Interval Training has the acronym H.I.I.T because it’s exactly how you feel afterward. It is a challenging style of class to teach and fuel your students want to keep...
Maximizing the immediate results of eager new clients increases the likelihood of retention for both them and you throughout the year. Many clients who invest in training as part of their New Year’s...
Fitness Professionals always “stay on the job” to assure our clients are on track towards their exercise and fitness goals to get results. Even during holidays, vacations, and stressful times in...
As a fitness professional one of my greatest fears is for all of my client’s hard work and progress to go down the drain. These thoughts come to mind when a client utters the words “vacation”,...
Planks are well loved for their ability to target most of the core musculature. But isn’t this possible without a plank? Don’t get me wrong. The plank is well loved for a reason. It works a slew of...
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...
Shake up the training session with an “old school” approach to exercise. This is a fun way to get your client moving and eliminate boredom from a repetitive routine, especially if the client and...
The one-arm dumbbell row is a unilateral exercise that targets the lats, teres major, middle, and lower trapezius, rhomboids, posterior deltoid, brachialis, biceps, and brachioradialis. These...
