Are your clients getting bored with endless treadmill sessions, stationary cycles, or counting Stairmaster steps? Or maybe they are so fixated on how many calories they burn during their 30 minute...
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Certified Personal Trainers
Access articles for established certified personal trainers to assist in their fitness training programming.
Brown Fat Cells and Thermogenesis
“Fat” can be a “4-letter word” in terms of the negative connotation that leaps into our minds at the mere mention of adipose tissue. However, as with most generalities in life, fat cells are not...
Interpreting Signs of Overhead Squat Assessment: Lumbo Pelvic Hip Complex Dysfunction
Interpreting the noted signs of an Overhead Squat Assessment (OHSA) can help a persoal trainer identify muscle imbalances, such as which muscles are long and weak, or short and tight, or maybe even...
Intuitive Eating: The Anti-Diet
Perhaps the answer to our personal training clients' difficult weight loss rests in not dieting at all and honing the skill of intuitive eating instead. Novel concept? No, not really. But you...
To Weight Belt or NOT to Belt?
Are weight belts necessary or might they even be harmful? How should personal trainers advise their heavy lifting clients? As a former queen of "ab day", having taught 30-minute abs-only classes and...
Tempo Training for Endurance, Hypertrophy, and Strength: Creative Progressive Overload
Tempo training is one creative approach to progressively overloading your clients when they get stuck or bored. As personal trainers and fitness enthusiasts, we know firsthand that the human body's...
How to Perform a Goblet Squat
A Goblet Squat is a variation of a conventional squat that can be useful for most personal training clients, but especially those with certain limitations. While you can certainly skate by handing...
Moment Arms in Exercise: A Brief Introduction to the Physics of Movement
For those of you who read the word "physics" and still opened this blog, I applaud you for being willing to challenge the breadth of your knowledge to learn a little more about how resistance forces...
How to Perform a Sumo Squat with Lateral Hip Rotation
When it comes to lower body development, the squat reigns supreme for hitting all the large muscles at once, and adding squat variations to your program will not only keep things interesting but...
The Pelvic Girdle: How Personal Trainers Gain a Deeper Understanding of Anatomy
It's helpful for certified personal trainers to understand the bone structure and joints of the pelvic girdle given how much movement takes place through the hips, and also, how many issues tend to...
