Skipping your personal training client's warm-up can be tempting, that is, until you find the right ones. Making sure your tissues and joints are ready for loading is vitally important to avoiding...
3 Best Shoulder Warm-Ups
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All Cardio, No Impact: Exercises for the Non-Runner or Injured Client
Cardio is essential in a well-rounded fitness routine, but it’s certainly not everyone's favorite, especially when the activity is perceived as "high-impact". Some personal trainers work with...
Pistol Squat Regressions–Progressing With a Twist
A pistol squat is a one-legged, bum-to-the-floor squat, and it is notoriously difficult for a fit person, let alone the average person, to execute. Quad and glute strength and mobility must be on...
How to Program Regression Exercises to Learn Pull-Ups
Teaching a client to do pull-ups, a gold standard exercise embodying bodyweight strength and endurance, is a process. Assessing mobility and addressing restrictions with releases and drills are the...
Symbiosis of Maximizing Size and Strength
Growing muscles and gaining strength are not necessarily achieved by the same means. Strength is the foundation of everyday acts of athleticism, as well as all fitness-related activities and...
Tips On Falling Safely And Injury-Free
There are valuable tools a personal trainer can add to a client's repertoire that will improve overall functionality and resiliency, among which falling safely is one of the most useful, especially...
Fitness Fights Age-Related Cognitive Decline
Exercise is known to have numerous neuroprotective and cognitive benefits, affecting domains from memory to learning processes. In a society where one new case of age-related dementia is detected...
Eliminating Barriers for Clients Who Say They Don’t Have Time For Fitness
At some point, almost every client may use the excuse "I don't have time for exercise," and every fitness professional should be prepared to handle this common barrier to health behaviors. It's...
Corrective Exercises to Improve Shoulder Mobility for Pull-Ups
Once you have determined what your client's shoulder joint mobility restrictions are, you can begin improving mobility by lengthening and strengthening the correct muscles. For each movement...
6 Standing Core Exercises: Off the Back and on the Feet
Incorporating standing core exercises in favor of sets of crunches and Russian twists will save time and better improve functional strength. So if you like tricking your clients as much as I do,...
