Health is important, right? I don’t know anyone who would challenge that assertion. If we are healthy, we are more likely to be productive, active,…
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Category: Certified Personal Trainers
Exercise and Your Immune System
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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Try These HIIT Workout Variations to Avoid Client Boredom
Pyramids, To-Do Lists, Circuits, and Add-Ons are great ways to vary HIIT protocols. Get creative with the work-to-rest ratios. Over the past few months, I have…
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How to Break Client’s Momentum in Strength Training
“Cheating” with momentum while strength training may feel appropriate in the moment, but ultimately you are only cheating yourself out of long-term gains. As personal trainers,…
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Improve Client Flexibility With This Yoga Series
This 15-minute yoga series will do wonders for your clients. It targets every major muscle group and joint in the body. As professionals in the…
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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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Try This Full Body Workout With Your Training Clients
Address most of your clients’ needs with this full body workout. Anyone doing three days or less per week of strength training and most of the…
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Flexibility Training is a Must for Personal Training Clients
We’ve all been there, working with a client who claims they’ve never been able to touch their toes. We’ve all done the internal wince, imagining…
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Three Phase Fat Loss Workout
When I turned 50 I decided to get back in good shape. I created a program that allowed me to go from my starting weight…
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John Hughes – Personal Trainer Spotlight
John Hughes shifted from the shipping and receiving industry to fitness after his father got ill and he saw the personal benefits of an exercise…
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Does Strength Training Pair Well With Concurrent Conditioning?
Ideally, strength training and conditioning are done on separate days to maximize strength capacity, but if they must be squeezed in together there is a…
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Six Variations for HIIT Training
High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is an exciting workout protocol that benefits most populations. Sometimes modifications are necessary and other times variety is warranted just to…
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