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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Category: Certified Personal Trainers
NFPT Live: Increasing Body Awareness for Fitness – Ep 39
Body awareness can improve training results, boost sports performance, and decrease the risk of injury. Body awareness is a component of fitness where the…
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IT Band Stretch: A Different Approach to Alleviate Tightness
Instead of stretching the Iliotibial (IT) Band, turn your focus toward the muscles that connect to the IT Band and those that are part of…
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Cathleen Kronemer – Personal Trainer Author Spotlight
Cathleen is a subject matter expert and author for NFPT who has been in the fitness industry for close to 30 years. She is certified…
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Can Working Out Change Your Genetics?
Exercise sessions can actually alter our DNA…in a matter of minutes! At any given time clients demonstrate a lack of motivation, causing them to skip the…
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Proper Squat Progressions and Alignment Corrections
Squats seem straightforward but teaching this movement properly with good alignment can be quite challenging. I’ve found this to be true especially with clients who…
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Kegel Exercises are an Important Part of Fitness Programs
Personal trainers would benefit from knowing the value of Kegel exercises for their clients. Kegels are an exercise that strengthens the pelvic floor muscles. Pelvic…
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Applying RPE to Personal Training Sessions
Ratings of Perceived Exertion (RPE) are a measure of intensity that is determined by the way someone feels about how hard his or her body…
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Multidimensional Fitness Programming Defined
Fitness programming is equal parts science and art. Successful fitness program designs are those that reflect the goals and needs a client expresses and serves…
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The Art of Self-Myofascial Release
The majority of certified personal trainers do not possess licensure as Accredited Manual Therapists. As such, our scope of practice limits us from direct manual…
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Stephen Caldwell – Personal Trainer Spotlight
Stephen Caldwell is an NFPT Certified Master Personal Trainer who lives in Louisville, KY, and trains for Swabek’s Highland Fitness. He also runs his own…
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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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