Understanding Diet Basics to Cut Clients’ Confusion, Part One
Personal trainers should know the basics of the most typical diets to guardrail their clients and know when to refer to a registered dietician. Introduction If you’re confused about the different types of diets out there, you’re not alone. Just imagine how much more...
Health
Enhance Muscular Strength with Krill Oil
Omega-3 fatty acids offer a cornucopia of health benefits, including...
Zinc Can Add a Zing To Building Muscle
In the world of fitness, we can cover topics from A to Z, starting with...
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...
Online Nutrition Challenges
As Fitness Professionals, we all know how important nutrition is when it comes to health, fitness,...
Understanding the Vastus Muscles
The quadriceps femoris muscles (quads) are the most voluminous muscles in the body— the quad...
Zinc and Copper Depletion: What You Need to Know
It's probably no surprise that after the last few years with COVID and other illnesses on the...
5 Effective Glute Activation Exercises
Do your clients have “gluteal amnesia” or dysfunction? Sitting for long periods of time,...
Assessing Lumbar and Hamstring Dominance over Gluteal Engagement
Most trainers understand that many clients have "sleepy glutes" that need to be woken up and...
The Nocebo Effect
We've all heard of the placebo effect, but how familiar are you with the nocebo effect? The...
Farm Worker Strength: Building General Physical Preparedness
Developing farm worker strength is no longer an endeavor for those working a farm. Personal...
Murph Challenge Modifications
The Murph Challenge is a tough workout with lots of possibilities. Right now it's popular in the...
5 Rules For Shooting “Gym Videos”
Working in the fitness industry, it is not uncommon for our news feeds on social media to be full...
Promoting a Growth Mindset: Helping Fitness Clients Achieve and Succeed
Most trainers have encountered a client who outwardly appeared to have all the ability and desire...
Online Training Options
It’s no surprise that training clients online has seen a rapid increase over the past few years!...
1RM: Calculating a Client’s One-Rep Max
The fitness industry defines muscular strength as the physical ability to generate force against...
