Pricing is one of the most challenging business decisions for personal trainers, both at the beginning of their career and throughout it. While joining a…
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Category: Advice to Personal Trainers
The Path to Longevity: Healthy Aging and Functionality Through Strength Training
Over the past few years, our fitness industry — and strength training in particular–– has undergone a powerful shift in priorities. Once the sole bailiwick of…
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Rewiring the Brain to Form Atomic Habits
Finding an effective technique for building, breaking, and keeping habits can feel like a hopeless endeavor. In this article, we explore a simple and effective…
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A Fresh Take on METCON Workouts
If personal trainers find their regular clients growing bored with traditional resistance training and aerobic/HIIT programs, try introducing a cycle of METCON workouts. In this…
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Should You Train Differently on GLP-1s? A Retired Strength Coach & Professor’s Take on Muscle, Missteps, and Mastery
As I’ve mentioned up to this point in this series on GLP-1 agonist medications and fitness, we’re in a new era of body recomposition. The…
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Building a Fitness Community within a Gym
Personal trainers have a bird’s eye view of the fitness floor where they work. They see the same members day in and day out, training the…
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The Copenhagen Plank: Introducing A New Challenge for Adductor Stabilization
Imagine an intense soccer game: lots of running, kicking, and pivoting, all the typical elements of play, happening at top speed. The muscles taking the…
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The Kyphosis Learning Curve: How to Exercise and What Moves to Avoid
The human spine consists of natural curves, beautifully designed to keep us comfortably upright and maintain proper posture. However, too much curvature can lead to…
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Can Consuming Molecular Hydrogen Supercharge Your Fitness and Health?
Hydrogen, the smallest yet most potent molecule in the biochemical world, now seems to hold the promise of revolutionizing both health and fitness arenas. In…
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Dying Tan
Picture yourself on a white sandy beach. A slight sea breeze sprays a mist of salt water across your face and over the crowded beach. You’re at the mecca for the area’s best bikini contest, Coconuts on the Beach, Cocoa Beach, Florida. It’s 10 a.m. and like a Thanksgiving turkey, you’ve planned to baste your day away in the heat of the sun.
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Bioenergetics: Aerobic versus Anaerobic Energy Production
While we are all familiar with aerobic activity, defined in the early 1970s by Dr. Kenneth Cooper as activity during which the cardiorespiratory system provides enough oxygen for muscular effort, most of us associate anaerobic activity with that very hard effort we do during intervals. The fact is that each non-sequential muscular effort, such as turning your head, entails some measure of energy production in the absence of oxygen, qualifying it as anaerobic.
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Handle with Care: The Intricacies of Training Teenage Female Clients
With the cost of higher education continuing to skyrocket, prudent parents nationwide are not only trying to pad their savings accounts, but are also actively seeking any and every scholarship opportunity available for their children.
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