Health and fitness articles for personal trainers rooted in exercise science, biology, anatomy, physiology, health psychology
This just in: Teen bodies are going through changes! Perhaps not in the way you'd expect, though. A 2018 study has re-emerged, covered in the last weeks by the BBC, TIME magazine, and spanning the...
Kinesiology Tape, or K-Tape is everywhere now, and it’s more important than ever to know the what, why, and how behind the "magic". Don’t be left out of the K-Tape revolution! Myself? I've been...
Having a solid grasp on how to use periodization programming with personal training clients may be the difference between successfully advancing in training while preventing injury and someone who...
The deltoids, otherwise known as the deltoideus or shoulder muscle, consists of three distinct "heads" with very different joint actions that, when engaged simultaneously, work together to produce...
If you’ve been in the world of fitness more than 10 minutes, you’ve most likely heard the terms mobility, stability and flexibility thrown around a lot. Mobility refers to a joint’s ability to...
The pelvic tilt has two main movements and four movements in total that every personal trainer should be intimately aware of. There are dozens of muscles involved in both the anterior and posterior...
Personal trainers can incorporate yoga into a fitness program and more easily navigate the many asanas (yoga poses) by studying the history and essence of this age-old practice. It may seem...
There are quite a few stubborn myofascial instigators that can hold clients back, but with a little know-how, any fitness professional can learn to identify these culprits and address them. Working...
Training core abdominal muscles is sometimes a straightforward goal for personal training clients, and other times - injuries and discomfort arise when crunching, planking and rotating the spine....
There are 18 muscles working when we breathe, including the pecs. More often than not, the diaphragm and transverse abdominus are the main two muscles talked about most for breathing. Yet there is...
