Exercise programming articles to give personal trainers ideas and inspiration for training their clients.
The results are in. Exercise during a normal, healthy pregnancy can help reduce back pain, strengthen heart and blood vessels, improve fitness, promote a healthy rate of weight gain during the...
Recently, one of the trainers at a gym where I teach group fitness approached me and asked me to help him create a quick, yet intense bike workout for one of his clients. She loves attending class...
One of the biggest advantages to indoor cycling over outdoor is the ability to focus only on the ride. The mind is free to focus on the body, get lost in music, or visualize terrain created through...
The cycle-class cycle happens in gyms everywhere. It goes something like this. New students come in and get excited. They run out and buy the shoes and show up for every class. But something happens...
There are 168 hours in a week. If we’re lucky we might see a personal training client for 3 hours a week (but let’s be real, it’s usually 1-2 hours). Even with three great workouts a week - there...
It is essential we nail down our body mechanics at work if we want to be successful in the gym. Tight muscles from improper posture at a desk can prohibit the right muscles from working, causing a...
There are plenty of reasons why your personal training clients should be exercising in the water. Whether your client experiences an injury that precludes any impact or weight-bearing activities, or...
Do you or someone you know have a “routine” when you go to the gym? Remember when you first worked out with these killer moves and were sore the next day? Keeping this routine with the same number...
As a personal trainer, the skill of aiming a bow and arrow toward a target has never been on my radar… not even in the same zip code!!! However, as is the case with many significant life lessons, I...
Pull-Up Emphasis A pull-up is a compound pull exercise that works a large number of muscles in your back, shoulders, and arms including the lats, lower trapezius, posterior deltoids, and biceps....
