Successful and sustainable weight loss is a long-term process. A personal training client must choose every day to engage in the behaviors that will lead…
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Category: Certified Personal Trainers
Andrew Gavigan–NFPT Personal Trainer Spotlight
Andrew Gavigan is a recognized speaker in the fitness industry, NFPT master trainer, and serves as Director of Education for AktivSolutions, which manufactures fitness products…
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Sleep Positions: Methods for Effective Rest and Posture
The purpose of sleep is to rest and recover from the strain of the every day and the added stress of intentional exercise and training.…
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Five Rules for Building Muscle
One of the primary cited goals fitness clients have is to build more muscle. After all, the benefits of resistance training and adding lean tissue…
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Working Out at Home: Creating an Environment for Success
With gym closures and social distancing protocols in place nationwide, worldwide, working out at home has become the only solution. Virtual fitness classes and…
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The Power of Positivity: Inspiring Fitness Clients to Succeed
Positivity is paramount in our daily lives. See the glass half full. Make lemonade with lemons. All that good stuff…happy thoughts. It can be found,…
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Mighty Mitochondria: Powerhouses of the Cells
Mitochondria play a huge role in our energy levels and our metabolic functions. Can we help clients make the most of these cells’ power? As…
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The Sitting Solution: Body Hacks to Keep You Loose While Stuck Inside
It’s a quarantine conundrum…as the body adapts to staying at home, how do we avoid the deleterious effects of our home behaviors? We all know…
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Calisthenics: Bodyweight Workout for Home Fitness Clients
Change and uncertainty can be extremely unsettling. When life falls out of its natural rhythm and we don’t know when it will return, it’s hard…
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Isometric Towel Workout
There are three different types of muscular contractions: concentric (shortening of the muscle), eccentric (lengthening of the muscle) and isometric (muscle doesn’t change length and…
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Trying Tai Chi: A Novel Approach to Staying Active at Home
With all that’s going on courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic and measures like quarantine and fitness facility closures to ‘flatten the curve’ or slow its…
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Carb Timing and Type: Talking to Personal Training Clients about Carbohydrate Fueling
The timing of nutrient intake ranks as one of the most hotly debated issues in fitness. Whether one exercises in a fasted state or post-fueling,…
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