Balancing the Body: Integrating Mobility Training into Every Routine
Mobility training can be an overlooked component of fitness programs. While strength, endurance, and cardiovascular health are essential, mobility—the ability of a joint to move actively through its full range of motion—is one of the most critical keys to developing...
Health
Online Nutrition Challenges
As Fitness Professionals, we all know how important nutrition is when it comes...
Zinc and Copper Depletion: What You Need to Know
It's probably no surprise that after the last few years with COVID and other...
Exercise Science
Trainers Can Go Beyond Exercise and Integrate the Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine into Client Workouts
Lifestyle medicine, a branch of evidence-based healthcare emphasizing disease...
Giving DNA its Due: Designing a Genetically-Based Workout Program
As personal trainers -- and those aspiring to the field -- surely know, every...
Is Your Client an “Active Couch Potato”?
Through dedicated data collection, research professionals have arrived at distinct categories of...
5 Strategies to Improve Workouts for Our Fitness Clients
Just as we can become bored with our own workout programs, our clients can, too! It’s important to...
Supporting Senior Clients: Cultivating a Sense of Belonging
As fitness professionals, supporting senior clients with the skills and tools at our disposal is...
Outdated Nutrition Advice Personal Training Clients Should Ignore
Personal trainers can clearly see how trends in nutrition come and go as swiftly as trends in...
How Personal Trainers Can Handle Injured Clients Return to Exercise
As trainers, a lot of our work involves doing all we can to prevent injuries from occurring....
Training Load, Injury, and Athletic Performance: Mastering the Trifecta
When training an athlete toward peak/competitive performance whether post-rehabilitation or from...
6 Tips for Supporting Personal Training Clients During the Holidays (Plus Bonus Challenge!)
The holiday season often means one thing to most clients: “avoiding weight gain” or “not losing...
How Fit Pros Can Leverage Commitment Devices to Promote Healthy Behaviors
Committing to a healthy lifestyle delivers its obvious benefits that most won't argue with, yet...
Tackling Fall Time Change and Sleep Habits
Clock time is changed by one hour, twice a year in 70 countries and most of the states in the U.S....
Preparing your Fitness Clients for Physical Assessments
Health and physical assessments are integral to the personal training experience. When working...
Cardiovascular and Respiratory Disease: How Personal Trainers Can Help
Exercise may feel difficult or even scary for individuals with cardiovascular and respiratory...
10 Best Exercises to Build a Better Squat
The squat is a true test of lower body strength. Any serious commercial, collegiate, professional,...
