Performing bodyweight dips requires mastering your entire bodyweight just like its distant cousins the chin-up and the pull-up. Dips also require extensive shoulder mobility to…
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Author: Michele Rogers
Posts by Michele Rogers:
Personal Training Client Types, Why They Hire You, and How to Knock Their Socks Off
For every year you’re in the fitness industry, there’s another personal training client type you will have assessed and categorized in the back of your…
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Gunnar Walcavich–NFPT Personal Trainer Spotlight
Meet Gunnar: brimming with grit, determination, enthusiasm and confidence. And all this he hopes to cultivate in his fitness clients. Gunnar is a professional boxer…
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The Pelvic Girdle: How Personal Trainers Gain a Deeper Understanding of Anatomy
It’s helpful for certified personal trainers to understand the bone structure and joints of the pelvic girdle given how much movement takes place through the…
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How to Perform a Sumo Squat with Lateral Hip Rotation
When it comes to lower body development, the squat reigns supreme for hitting all the large muscles at once, and adding squat variations to your…
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How to Perform a Goblet Squat
A Goblet Squat is a variation of a conventional squat that can be useful for most personal training clients, but especially those with certain limitations.…
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To Weight Belt or NOT to Belt?
Are weight belts necessary or might they even be harmful? How should personal trainers advise their heavy lifting clients? As a former queen of “ab…
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Intuitive Eating: The Anti-Diet
Perhaps the answer to our personal training clients’ difficult weight loss rests in not dieting at all and honing the skill of intuitive eating instead.…
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Interpreting Signs of Overhead Squat Assessment: Lumbo Pelvic Hip Complex Dysfunction
Interpreting the noted signs of an Overhead Squat Assessment (OHSA) can help a persoal trainer identify muscle imbalances, such as which muscles are long and…
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5 Calorie Hacks You’ll Never Notice Making
Who doesn’t love a good hack, especially when it can reduce the calorie tally of the fat loss client’s day? So often there are hidden…
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Ice or Heat for Pain?
As personal trainers, we have well-acquainted ourselves with the PRICE protocol; pressure and ice help to reduce the swelling associated with acute injuries. And when…
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Interpreting Signs of Overhead Squat Assessment: Upper Body Dysfunction
Upper body dysfunction (UBD) may appear upon observation as simple shoulder dysfunction, as has been suggested with models such Upper Crossed Syndrome. But the glenohumeral…
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