Whether you're looking to expand your personal training repertoire or want to offer group fitness clients more options, or maybe just want a way to reboot your own fitness without having to venture...
Certified Personal Trainers
Access articles for established certified personal trainers to assist in their fitness training programming.
Highlighting HILIT: High-Intensity, Low-Impact Training
As the population of fitness enthusiasts over the age of 50 continues to grow, trends must keep pace with the realities of aging bodies while accommodating an ever-increasing demand for creative,...
How Your Ears and Poor Hearing Affect Balance
A convenient place to tuck stray hair, holders to display chic jewelry, the means of hearing a symphonic orchestra…indeed, our ears serve a multitude of functions! Learn how a sense of balance also...
Nerve Glides: Flossing Away Pain
Often we instruct our personal training clients to help work out muscular tension and pain with static or even dynamic stretching. When this doesn't resolve the issue, the problem may actually...
No Gym Equipment? Three Training Strategies for Fitness Clients
Shelter-in-place orders have forced our clients to train away from their gym that may result in a decline in seeing results, or worse, unwanted weight gain. For most, this situation means no access...
Weighted Vests: Dressing For Fitness Success
The notion of wearing a weighted vest might occur to a fitness enthusiast for things like pushups and pullups, but what about for other goals? Convincing new research points us in the direction of...
Benefits of a Barre Approach to Fitness
If you’re looking for an exercise approach that is easily implemented yet surprisingly challenging, I encourage you to explore adding barre workouts to your arsenal of fitness techniques. Barre is a...
Just One More
I remember a conversation I had with a bar owner a few years ago. I was in the bar for research purposes only, of course. The bar had been around for decades with barstools filled mostly by...
Partner Workouts in the Virtual (or Social Distancing) World
Born out of necessity due to the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual training sessions quickly became a saving grace in the fitness industry, and finding a way to train groups or pairs using partner workouts...
The Human Heart: Basic Cardiac Anatomy and Physiology for the Personal Trainer
The Human Heart: we all have one, but how fully do we understand their function? How necessary for certified personal trainers is this understanding to developing an effective training regimen? I...