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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Category: Certified Personal Trainers
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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How Sleep Deprivation Is Related To Injury
Injuries happen to us all, even when we take as much care as we possibly can. However, when someone is suffering from sleep deprivation, they…
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How To Combat Decision Fatigue Using Simple Criteria
How many times during a day, week, month, or year, do you make decisions for your fitness business? The fitness industry is a fast-moving one…
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Understanding the Spinotransversales: The Superficial Intrinsic Muscles of the Back
The intrinsic muscles of the back control the vertabral column, i.e., the spine, and are situated deep below the extrinsic muscles which are responsible for…
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Understanding Erector Spinae: Nail the Intermediate Intrinsic Muscles of the Back
Understanding the attachments and function of the erector spinae group can help shed light on some typical compensation patterns and postural dysfunction like hyperkyphosis or…
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Ashlyn Knox–NFPT Personal Trainer Spotlight
Meet Ashlyn Knox, a third-year full-time student at The University of Texas at Austin, where she is studying Business Management and Exercise Science. Like most…
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Coaching Fitness Clients Toward Behavior Change
The process of changing human behavior is challenging and complex given that it is an ongoing, nonlinear process influenced by a number of different factors…
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Re-Injury Prevention: A Fresh Perspective on a Prevalent Problem
Incomplete rehabilitation in athletes, as well as the general fitness population, has led to an unfortunate re-injury epidemic. Should our goal as trainers be to…
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Understanding Transversospinales: The Deep Intrinsic Muscles of the Back
The deep intrinsic muscles are located beneath the erector spinae, and are known collectively as the transversospinales. They are a group of short muscles, associated with the transverse and spinous processes of the vertebral column that primarily support the segments of the spine and serve as proprioceptors. Personal trainers who want to go deeper into their anatomy knowledge and application should read on.
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The Intrinsic Muscles of the Back: Getting the Musculature of the Spine Straight
The intrinsic muscles of the back are a bit complex to say the least. Not only are there several muscles that literally overlap, but their…
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Mindset Shifts for Weight Loss Success
Putting in an hour at the gym two to three times per week is arguably the easiest part of trying to get fit. This is…
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