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 prevention over curative medicine, seems greatly underemphasized in today’s Western medicine approach. Lifestyle medicine operates from a holistic health approach that works to treat root...
Health
Consequences of a Low-Carb Intake
Personal trainers need to be prepared to properly educate their clients on all...
Consequences of Sugar Overconsumption
In today’s world of on-the-go, fast-paced lifestyles, convenience has come to...
Exercise Science
Youthful Benefits of Exercise-Induced Sweating
Perspiration is a natural human process that serves important purposes, yet so...
3 Novel Group Fitness Class Ideas to Shake Things Up
If you’re teaching freestyle group fitness classes, it’s easy to always fall...
Exercise and Depression: How Personal Trainers Can Make an Impact
Depression is the "common cold" of psychological disorders. The World Health Organization...
How to Add Healthy Calories to Meals – Ideas to Share with Fitness Clients
The world of diet culture primarily focuses on telling individuals to “reduce”, “limit”,...
Nutritional Periodization: Fueling for the Work Ahead
Prudent nutrition plays a key role in promoting personal training clients' hypertrophy, power, and...
Reminders About Common Diet Culture Messages
As a personal trainer, educator, and health coach, my students will express what they hear or...
Grace Edwards–NFPT Personal Trainer Spotlight
Meet Lady Grace Edwards. Born and raised in England of Jamaican parents, Grace grew up there until...
Energy Vampires: How to Handle Personal Training Clients That Drain Your Life Force
A career in personal training is no doubt far more challenging than most ever expect it to be, and...
Kidney and Gall Stones: Can Exercise Help or Hinder?
Regular exercise helps to maintain the proper functioning of every organ in the human body,...
Using Suspension Straps
Have you tried using suspension straps in your training sessions? The hanging suspension straps...
Forearm Extensor Anatomy: Locating the Extensors of the Wrist and Fingers
The extensors of the wrist and fingers are used during planks, when playing tennis, golf and every...
How to Stimulate Cellular Renewal to Offset Aging
Our cellular components and bodies inevitably become senescent, or in laymen’s terms – cells grow...
Bottoms Up: Upside Down Kettlebells
The kettlebell is a great piece of equipment to build and maintain strength. Chances are, you’ve...
Quick 20 Minute Mini Workout to Break Up the Day
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, many of our fitness clients experienced a shift in how they live and...
