Access articles for established certified personal trainers to assist in their fitness training programming.
Halloween is kind of my favorite, so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to include a classic monster like Frankenstein in today's blog. If you've never heard of it, the Frankenstein squat, or...
The true foundation of a personal training client's fitness success is that their journey aligns concordantly with their level of fitness and progresses appropriately as they achieve set goals....
The human body is meant to move in all directions – forward, backward, side to side, up, down, and rotationally. In other words, the body exists and functions on a 3-dimensional plane. The term...
If you're a fitness professional you may have heard the term "muscle activation" or have even used it in your personal training practice as a means to help correct movement pattern dysfunctions....
Have you been suffering too many colds this season? Is your “healthy” exercise program compromising your immune system? Or is exercising while you are under the weather sabotaging your workouts?...
October is traditionally a time for beers and fears, but while Bavarian festivals abound and horror movies play on loop, it's easy to forget in all the fun that addressing real fear can be a huge...
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if a person could get rid of excess fat found on one specific part of their body by working the muscle directly beneath the fat? That is exactly what many of our fitness...
Putting in an hour at the gym two to three times per week is arguably the easiest part of trying to get fit. This is not to discount the difficulties of finding the time nor the effort put forth...
The intrinsic muscles of the back are a bit complex to say the least. Not only are there several muscles that literally overlap, but their names also overlap as well, making matters more confusing....
The deep intrinsic muscles are located beneath the erector spinae, and are known collectively as the transversospinales. They are a group of short muscles, associated with the transverse and spinous processes of the vertebral column that primarily support the segments of the spine and serve as proprioceptors. Personal trainers who want to go deeper into their anatomy knowledge and application should read on.
