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...
Exercise Programming
Exercise programming articles to give personal trainers ideas and inspiration for training their clients.
Combating Stress Adaptation With Variety
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...
Forward Thinkers Train Backward
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...
How To Do Pull-Ups
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....
Forward Thinkers Train Backwards
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...
How to do Dyna Disc Crunches
Emphasis The primary muscles used Rectus Abdominis, external obliques, internal obliques and transverse abdominis. The secondary muscles are the erector spinae. Starting Position Place dyna disc...
Assessments that Renew Fitness Goals
How do you keep your clients motivated? With your enthusiasm? With proof? Keeping notes is one way to show the client what's changed in their workouts over time. Another method is with fitness...
How to do Seated Tricep Extension with Dumbbells
Emphasis The primary muscles stressed in this movement are the muscles in the back of your upper arm (triceps - long and medial head). The secondary muscles stressed are the muscles in your forearms...
How to do Lying Tricep Extensions
Emphasis The primary muscles stressed in this movement are the muscles in the back of your upper arm (tricep - long and medial head). The secondary muscles stressed are the muscles in your forearms...
How to do Tricep Pushdowns with the Rope
Emphasis The primary muscles stressed in this movement are the muscles in the back of your upper arm (tricep - short head). The secondary muscles stressed are the muscles in your forearms and bicep....