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Category: Exercise Programming
Strengthening Abdominal Muscles After Pregnancy or Surgery
The birth of a baby or any lower abdominal surgery compromises core muscle integrity making it crucial for a certified personal trainer to program functional…
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Scapular Mobility Exercises for Pull-Ups
Improving scapular mobility and correcting muscle imbalances that might prevent proper pull-up form is an essential step before teaching efficient pull-up or chin-up technique. After…
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How to Vary Cardiovascular Training to Get Results
Running is a great conditioning tool and can be tweaked and tailored to provide many benefits and yield results that any client might be seeking.…
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Making Workout Program Adjustments When Your Client is Injured
How do you proceed when a client enters a session with a minor injury? As personal trainers, we hope and expect our clients will adapt…
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Active vs Passive Range of Motion (ROM) and Their Relationship with Lifting
Mobility work is a rising star in the fitness world, and knowing how Passive and Active Range of Motion (ROM) fits into it can assist…
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Shoulder Internal/External Rotation Mobility Exercises for Pull-ups
The last piece of relevant corrective exercises to improve shoulder mobility for pull-up progressions is focused on glenohumeral internal and external rotation. Once you have…
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6 Standing Core Exercises: Off the Back and on the Feet
Incorporating standing core exercises in favor of sets of crunches and Russian twists will save time and better improve functional strength. So if you like…
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Corrective Exercises to Improve Shoulder Mobility for Pull-Ups
Once you have determined what your client’s shoulder joint mobility restrictions are, you can begin improving mobility by lengthening and strengthening the correct muscles. For…
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Symbiosis of Maximizing Size and Strength
Growing muscles and gaining strength are not necessarily achieved by the same means. Strength is the foundation of everyday acts of athleticism, as well as…
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How to Program Regression Exercises to Learn Pull-Ups
Teaching a client to do pull-ups, a gold standard exercise embodying bodyweight strength and endurance, is a process. Assessing mobility and addressing restrictions with releases…
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Pistol Squat Regressions–Progressing With a Twist
A pistol squat is a one-legged, bum-to-the-floor squat, and it is notoriously difficult for a fit person, let alone the average person, to execute. Quad…
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