The sport of running has always carried with it the stereotype that it might damage one’s knees. New research aims to change that perception, suggesting…
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Category: Certified Personal Trainers
Designing a Functional Push-Up Routine
Push-ups feel so good. The work to your shoulders, arms, and back all the while working your core, toning glutes, lengthening our chronically tight iliopsoas/hip…
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Understanding Heart Rate Variability Training and How To Use It With Fitness Clients
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) training utilizes today’s available technology to assess a heart metric that can provide valuable information about how a client or athlete…
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Is Your Libido Losing to Your Workouts?
The majority of avid exercisers make the mistake of monitoring muscle soreness when deciding whether their bodies are ready for yet another tough workout. However,…
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Helping Athletes Recover From Overtraining Syndrome
Personal trainers may occasionally work with clients who consistently push themselves too hard and too frequently. The ramifications of this habitual body-battering are far-reaching. An…
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Alex Clearwater–NFPT Personal Trainer Spotlight
Alex Clearwater has not only been one of our regular blog contributors for over two years, but she’s also full-time NFPT certified Personal Trainer, Yoga…
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Words Have Power: Enhance Trainer-Client Relationships With Better Word Choices
If we don’t stop and think about the words we speak or even write, we may inflict harm we don’t intend to, especially with regard…
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How to Execute a Hip Bridge
When you walk into the gym, there is no shortage of glute exercises being done in every corner of the facility with every piece of…
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Are Your Clients Sabotaging Their Fitness Efforts?
Most fitness clients have loosely defined, but well-intended, fitness goals that they hope to reach by working with a personal trainer. These goals are often…
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Water In, Water out: The Value of Sweating and Hydrating
Sweating is our body’s natural cooling system. It keeps our temperature in check working on an automatic internal thermostat. I like to think of our…
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Understanding Shoulder Instability: The Anatomy and the Pathology
The shoulder is the most versatile joint of our body and allows motion of our arms in pretty much every direction, but this instability also…
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Mindful Eating 101
Helping our clients develop skillsets to adopt healthy lifestyle habits is within the purvue of health coaching and personal training. The practice of mindful eating…
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