Amino Acids and Muscle Tissue: What Personal Trainers Need to Know
After amino acids have been taken up into muscle tissue, they serve two basic purposes with respect to muscle conditioning.
Health
Portion Perception: Distortion and Reality
Portion control is an effective practice when performed habitually to manage...
Nutrition Tips for Boosting the Brain (and the Body)
As a personal trainer, your clients look to you for advice on their overall...
Exercise Science
Assessing Ankle Mobility
If assessing ankle mobility is not on your checklist of assessments to...
Powerlifting Primer: An Intro To Strength Sports
In recent years, the sport of powerlifting has been steadily growing within...
New Year, New Fitness Perspective
As we leave 2020 behind, it's important to reflect on the lessons learned as trainers and as human...
Encouraging Non-Scale Goals for Personal Training Clients
Weight loss goals dominate the minds of many personal training clients. While weight loss, or more...
Love Your Back
Since Valentine’s Day falls in February, why not choose this month to show some love…to your back....
Exercise Prescription and Healthcare Professionals
Personal trainers hold the power to change lives. We embrace this fulfilling experience time and...
Metabolic Confusion: Conquering the Carb-Cycling Challenge
Among many of the weight loss approaches that are conceived these days, metabolic confusion has...
Protecting Bones and Joints (PB&J)
It’s your job as an NFPT Trainer to help your clients reduce their lifestyle-related risk factors,...
Keleigh Hall–NFPT Personal Trainer Spotlight
Keleigh Hall is an NFPT Certified Personal Trainer, Fitness Nutrition Specialist and holds an...
How to Convert Gym Members into Clients
While the start of 2021 has most gyms re-opened, they are still not at capacity in most states....
Medically Supervised Use of Weight Loss Drugs: Risk or Reward?
Personal training covers more ground than simply cultivating strength and building endurance. Many...
On a Roll: More Uses for the Foam Roller
Most of us view foam rollers as tools for SMR and recovery. But applications of the foam roller do...
Eight Ways to Make Exercises More Challenging
As fitness clients make progress toward their health and fitness goals, they often want to keep...
Banking Micro-nutrients for Performance
CPTs can apply general knowledge of clients’ nutritional requirements and changing diets to...
