Coaching Body Awareness for Personal Training Clients: A Secret to Success
What has helped me to be successful as a coach from the beginning of my 20+ years career as a personal trainer, despite inexperience or even misguided training techniques, is prioritizing and coaching body awareness. Insisting that my clients develop a higher level of...
Health
Competitive Nutrition For Women’s Figure, Physique, and Bodybuilding
Pre-competition nutrition programs are designed to help an individual drop fat...
Protein or Total Calories: What’s More Important for Hypertrophy?
There seem to be conflicting opinions about what's most important to grow...
Exercise Science
Running Backward: The Advantages to Retro-Running
Clients who incorporate running into their workout programs may get burned out...
Functional Range Conditioning: Unlock Hidden Joint Potential
Clients often present with what they call “tight muscles” which usually means...
Trying Tai Chi: A Novel Approach to Staying Active at Home
With all that's going on courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic and measures like quarantine and...
Liability Insurance Coverage for In-Home Virtual Personal Training
In a time when virtual training is a necessary business move and keeps you working doing what you...
Coffee Hacks: Boosting Your Java Jolt
Coffee and creativity seem to go hand-in-hand, often to the nutritional benefit of the savvy...
Isometric Towel Workout
There are three different types of muscular contractions: concentric (shortening of the muscle),...
The Carbohydrate Conflict: Why Carbs Don’t Make You Fat
No doubt, nutrition is a complex and confusing topic for many, especially our personal training...
Calisthenics: Bodyweight Workout for Home Fitness Clients
Change and uncertainty can be extremely unsettling. When life falls out of its natural rhythm and...
Tips for Working From Home
Whether you’ve been working from home for years or for weeks, you know that working in the same...
The Impact of COVID-19 on a New Business Owner
The repercussions of COVID-19 on our lives have been overwhelming for most, but there is a unique...
Mighty Mitochondria: Powerhouses of the Cells
Mitochondria play a huge role in our energy levels and our metabolic functions. Can we help...
The Sitting Solution: Body Hacks to Keep You Loose While Stuck Inside
It's a quarantine conundrum...as the body adapts to staying at home, how do we avoid the...
The Power of Positivity: Inspiring Fitness Clients to Succeed
Positivity is paramount in our daily lives. See the glass half full. Make lemonade with lemons....
Working Out at Home: Creating an Environment for Success
With gym closures and social distancing protocols in place nationwide, worldwide, working...