Articles that span issues or concepts related to special populations such as youth, elderly, or those suffering with specific conditions.
Professional Trainers and many clients have started or will soon establish “new normal” patterns for exercise after our COVID-19 “gap year.” One aspect of this gap year emergence is fatigue, which...
The association between physical exercise and the overall health of patients with chronic renal failure shows great promise. As a trainer, could you recognize whether a new client might suffer from...
What if regular physical exercise possessed the ability to improve cognition and mental health along with payoffs in body composition? If parents and educators promote exercise in childhood, even in...
Gender, age, and lifestyle can adversely impact client ranges of motion, flexibility, and/or safe biomechanics. Poor pandemic postures may, unfortunately, add to chronic issues which impede...
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...
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...
CPTs can apply general knowledge of clients’ nutritional requirements and changing diets to capably support their muscular performance. Our skeletal muscles (which ancients called “little mice”) are...
Menopause is the time frame following a year-long cessation of a woman’s menstrual cycle. Perimenopause, not nearly as easy to recognize, refers to the few years leading up to menopause, when the...
Cancer-related fatigue is the most common and distressing side effect experienced by cancer survivors. The severity and length of the fatigue depends on the type of cancer, treatments, and overall...
First-time pregnancy can be the most exciting time of a woman's life. And for some, also some of the most physically challenging! For moms-to-be who have never really worked out before and come to...
