Your “healthy” exercise program might be ruining your immune system. If you or your clients have been consistently feeling exhausted and drained after workouts or…
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Category: Health Behaviors and Psychology
Coaching the Low Compliance Client
If you’re in the fitness business, you know that clients’ traits, personalities, and abilities vary as much as the styles and philosophies of personal training.…
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How to Improve Body Image
As a personal trainer, it’s likely that each day you hear some of your clients make negative comments about their bodies. You may even have…
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Motivational Interviewing for Personal Trainers: Understanding the Stages of Change
Personal trainers are always looking for new ways to motivate their clients and sometimes it can be a struggle. Motivational interviewing could offer a breakthrough,…
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What is Sport Psychology?
It’s important to recognize when a client’s mind is preventing him or her from moving forward. Sometimes a client or athlete stops progressing not because…
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Eat Drink and Sleep?
When you eat and drink can affect sleep and how you sleep can impact how much and what you eat and drink. Meeting health-related goals…
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Lymphatic System Logistics for Exercise
The lymphatic system is tied to the optimal functioning of almost every aspect of the human body. It plays a role in injury and muscle…
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Habit Trackers – Health and Fitness Tracking for Pesonal Training Clients
While it is tempting to set super-sized goals for the New Year, what your personal training clients might need most is to set habit-oriented goals…
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“Low T”: Not Solely a Male Problem
Women, not just men, can suffer ill effects from depressed testosterone levels, also known as “Low T” syndrome. Gender equality has long been at the…
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Discerning Disordered Eating from Eating Disorders
Encountering a personal training client with disordered eating, which can be distinct from clinical eating disorders, is highly probable at some point in the fitness…
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Mindfulness Challenge: Better Connect with Yourself and Your Clients
For clients and trainers alike, working out is often a time to disconnect from the outside world and reconnect to the moment by tuning into…
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Top 10 Ways to “UN” Motivate Your Clients
In celebration of this UN-holiday, I thought it appropriate to share a top 10 list of how to best UNmotivate personal training clients! The goal…
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