Personal training is not always about how much weight a client can lift. Sometimes lifting no weight at all can challenge a client in new…
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Category: Exercise Programming
IT Band Syndrome: It’s Not Your IT Band!
Whether your clients have complained about it being tight or you’ve experienced it firsthand, the IT band is searched popularly on YouTube and commonly among…
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The Curtsy Lunge: How to do it and why you should
The lunge and all its iterations has a penchant for hitting all the muscles of the lower body at once, and depending on which variation…
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Negative Lifting For Strength and Hypertrophy: Creative Progressive Overload
Introducing your strength-training clients to negative lifting, aka, employing negatives, might be a progressive overload approach worth considering, especially if you’re helping them to push…
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Spot Reduction: Discussing What’s Actually Possible With Fitness Clients
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if a person could get rid of excess fat found on one specific part of their body by working the muscle…
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Muscle Activation: What It Is and How to Program It
If you’re a fitness professional you may have heard the term “muscle activation” or have even used it in your personal training practice as a…
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The Planes of Motion: Creating a 3D Approach to Personal Training
The human body is meant to move in all directions – forward, backward, side to side, up, down, and rotationally. In other words, the body…
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Core Training Versus Core Strengthening: Is There A Difference?
The true foundation of a personal training client’s fitness success is that their journey aligns concordantly with their level of fitness and progresses appropriately as…
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Learn The Frankenstein Squat To Master The Front Squat
Halloween is kind of my favorite, so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to include a classic monster like Frankenstein in today’s blog. If you’ve…
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Deficit Training: Getting Creative With Progressive Overloading
If you’ve got an advanced client looking to spice up their strength training routine, deficit lifting might be one answer–successful at employing a greater range…
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Deadlifts For The Win On Core Strength And Back Health
The deadlift works the largest and strongest muscle in the human body – the gluteus maximus. A weakness in the glutes may result in a…
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Myofascial Flossing: Compression Bands 101
Do you floss daily? You should. Yeah, it may sound like I’m echoing your dentist, but I’m actually talking about myofascial flossing! If you’re already…
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