Weight loss goals dominate the minds of many personal training clients. While weight loss, or more accurately--fat loss, is a valid goal for many individuals who seek our services, it is also a...
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Love Your Back
Since Valentine’s Day falls in February, why not choose this month to show some love…to your back. Guide clients to do the same and the results might just be something they will love! It is easy to...
Exercise Prescription and Healthcare Professionals
Personal trainers hold the power to change lives. We embrace this fulfilling experience time and again by observing how introducing a healthier lifestyle to new clients sets them up for a future...
Metabolic Confusion: Conquering the Carb-Cycling Challenge
Among many of the weight loss approaches that are conceived these days, metabolic confusion has arrived on the scene to provide extra opportunities for personal trainers to explain physiological...

Protecting Bones and Joints (PB&J)
It’s your job as an NFPT Trainer to help your clients reduce their lifestyle-related risk factors, which includes protecting bones and joints. Fit pros should be aware of, and situationally suggest...
Keleigh Hall–NFPT Personal Trainer Spotlight
Keleigh Hall is an NFPT Certified Personal Trainer, Fitness Nutrition Specialist and holds an additional certificate in Core training. She has over 20 years of experience in the fitness industry to...
Medically Supervised Use of Weight Loss Drugs: Risk or Reward?
Personal training covers more ground than simply cultivating strength and building endurance. Many clients turn to us for weight-related health problems, and the two-pronged diet-exercise approach...
On a Roll: More Uses for the Foam Roller
Most of us view foam rollers as tools for SMR and recovery. But applications of the foam roller do not stop there. Foam Rollers Have Many Uses Foam rolling and Self Myofascial Release (SMFR or SMR)...
Eight Ways to Make Exercises More Challenging
As fitness clients make progress toward their health and fitness goals, they often want to keep progressing and making greater performance gains. Finding new ways to challenge clients is not only...
Improve Dorsiflexion by Strengthening This Muscle
Why should trainers care about ankle dorsiflexion (DF)? After all – the DF muscles aren’t ones we often consider training much, if at all, and rarely ever discuss with our clients. You don’t see...