Do you have one of those nifty step counter apps? Do you pay attention to it? Do you set a daily goal? If not, maybe you should. A group of researchers at the University of Missouri sought to...
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Exercise Science, Biology, and Research
Health and fitness articles for personal trainers rooted in exercise science, biology, anatomy, physiology, health psychology
U.S. Adults Getting Wider around the Middle
The paunch. The front porch. The beer belly. Call it what you will, but the rate of occurrence of abdominal obesity in U.S. adults appears to have grown significantly in the first decade or so of...
Suspension Success: A Different Way to View Training
In the never-ending quest for fresh and innovative ways to keep clients motivated, it seems our industry has landed upon something truly unique. Suspension training, made popular by the...
The Reality of Reducing Body Fat
To say that Americans are preoccupied with losing weight is putting it mildly. Losing weight isn't hand, but even the most "experienced" losers often do not understand how to do so effectively and...
Connective Tissue Training: Strengthening Tendons and Ligaments to Prevent Injury
Personal trainers are well-versed in working muscles, but what about the tendons and ligaments that hold the muscles to each other and to bone? These structures are just as important to consider and...
Weight Training Appears Good for Waist Size in Men
Resistance exercise isn’t just good for building and keeping lean mass. A new study shows that it also could be beneficial in keeping down increases in age-related abdominal fat in men. Previous...
How Obese is Your State?
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1995 began collecting data on adult obesity in all 50 states, the highest rate was 19%. In 2013, each state had an obesity rate of at least...
An Hour of Exercise a Day Could Keep Heart Failure Away
How much is one hour each day worth to you? What if that one hour were devoted to exercise, and that it could lower your risk of heart failure by almost 50 percent? According to the results of a new...
Sleep is Important for your Personal Training Clients
As many ambitious insomniacs have learned, working out in the evening makes most people too alert to sleep well. You need to schedule your workouts to be more in tune with your body's natural wake...
Training Overweight Children
Health professionals and others have expressed a concern at the rising rates of obesity in all segments of the population, including adolescent and children. In less than 30 years, the obesity rate...
