In our daily attempts to live healthy and productive lives, it helps to realize that good health encompasses so much more than just exercise and having a fit body. Fitness, health, and wellness...
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Personal Trainers Can Positively Influence Public Health Initiatives
Physical inactivity, and the health problems that follow in its wake, recently attained pandemic status. Addressing this problem falls under the category of a global public health priority. Many...
Creating Inclusive Spaces for Fitness Clients
Fitness, when presented properly and professionally, boasts the capacity to transcend borders, cultures, and backgrounds. However, despite its universal appeal, the fitness industry as a whole often...
Exploring the Pro’s and Cons of Creatine Use
The topic of whether to take over-the-counter supplements as a way of gaining an athletic edge often sparks debates on both sides of the fence. Creatine, a substance naturally produced in the human...
Knee Anatomy, Common Injuries, and Exercise Programming Guidance
Knee pain and complaints are common among personal training clients. A clear understanding of the internal knee and its function supports the knowledge to program restorative knee exercises,...
Mindfulness in Personal Training
Mindfulness as a practice has been exploding in popularity, making its way into professional sports, healthcare spaces, and school classrooms. The study of its effect on both the mind and body has...
Top 10 Ideas for Trainers and Their Post-Menopausal Clients
Fitness encompasses more than a woman’s physical body. It extends to her emotions, her spirit, and her unique definition of self. Women deserve to celebrate their lives at any age; however, when the...
Sell Value, Not Time
If, as a personal trainer, you get caught up exclusively in selling one-hour packages instead of selling value and quality service, clients will ultimately suffer and so will you. Picture this: you...
Powering Through Perimenopause With Strength Training
Perimenopause, the transitional period before menopause, signals the lessening of estrogen levels in a female’s body. During this phase of life, which in some women can last for years,...
Trainers Can Go Beyond Exercise and Integrate the Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine into Client Workouts
Lifestyle medicine, a branch of evidence-based healthcare emphasizing disease prevention over curative medicine, seems greatly underemphasized in today’s Western medicine approach. Lifestyle...