If you’ve been in the world of fitness more than 10 minutes, you’ve most likely heard the terms mobility, stability and flexibility thrown around a…
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Category: Certified Personal Trainers
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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Eliminating Barriers for Clients Who Say They Don’t Have Time For Fitness
At some point, almost every client may use the excuse “I don’t have time for exercise,” and every fitness professional should be prepared to handle…
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Reggie Jewkes–Personal Trainer Spotlight
Why did you decide to become a personal trainer? I was always involved in sports. I played tennis, volleyball, golf, softball and always loved basketball.…
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Fitness Fights Age-Related Cognitive Decline
Exercise is known to have numerous neuroprotective and cognitive benefits, affecting domains from memory to learning processes. In a society where one new case of…
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Tips On Falling Safely And Injury-Free
There are valuable tools a personal trainer can add to a client’s repertoire that will improve overall functionality and resiliency, among which falling safely is…
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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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