Maximizing results in the gym may seem all about how many grueling hours we exercise. However, new research indicates that we can train smarter instead…
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Category: Certified Personal Trainers
Kettlebell Drills You Haven’t Tried Yet
If you are a personal trainer looking to add variety and excitement to your workouts, give these unique kettlebell exercises a go! These are guaranteed…
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Understanding Cavitation and Tension Adjustments: What’s all that cracking and popping?
Snapping hips, crackling knees, popping knuckles…all part of the human experience. Fully decoding these noisy joints may never come to pass for the technology required…
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Leverage SMR For Longer Lasting And More Efficient Results
We as fitness professionals most likely employ self-myofascial release (SMR) or static release techniques with most of our clients, but we could probably get more…
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Alleviating Clients’ Holiday Guilt
This time of year is notoriously harried, fraught with culinary delights, and sparse on physical exertion–for most, that is. We’ve certainly accounted for the…
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Brain Fitness: How Athletics Can Hone Mental Skills
We seldom question the physical benefits that exercise has on our bodies, but the benefits to the brain and higher functioning are not as regularly…
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Healthy New Year Resolutions With a Twist
As personal trainers we’ve probably all heard this resolution 1,00 times over: “I want to be healthier this year,” but what exactly does that mean? …
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Shin Splits: Why Your Lower Legs May Hurt and What to Do
Shin splints, or as it is clinically referred to, medial tibial stress syndrome, affects one percent of the population per year, but what is it?…
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How to Make New Year Goals a Reality
Setting goals of any kind during the start of a new year is exciting, but creating a plan for success and following through is a…
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What Comes After Weight Loss? Yo-Yo Dieting and Weight Maintenance Considerations
Many clients are caught in a cycle of losing and gaining weight, also called yo-yo dieting, making weight maintenance a major hurdle. Yo-yo dieting can…
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How to Do a Close-Grip Bench Press for Powerful Triceps
A close-grip bench press is a variation of a standard bench press that creates a different challenge for our personal training clients. When conjuring up…
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Mind, Body, Spirit: Breathwork and Meditation Anchor Overall Wellness
We are a large community of coaches who adopt different approaches and each offering a different primary focus. We all interconnect fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle…
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