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What Are The Ideal Rest Intervals For Specific Training Goals?
Ideal rest is a vital component of exercise, not only between training sessions but also between sets during a workout. Following the completion of a…
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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
All professionals, at some point in their careers, question their individual talents, intelligence, and abilities. Personal trainers are no exception. It takes time to build…
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Fostering Empathy to Elevate the Fitness Client’s Experience
I always start the semester by engaging my personal training students in a discussion that prompts them to answer this question: “what does effective personal…
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The Reality and Daily Struggles of Successful Weight Loss
As the rates of overweight and obesity continue to rise in the United States, an increasing number of people are in need of effective, long-term…
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The Importance of Networking in the Fitness Industry: What Personal Trainers Should Do
Networking is a valuable tool in any business, such as tech, salesforce, education, and especially so in personal training. Merriam-Webster defines networking as “the cultivation…
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Big Strides and Little Leaps: Progress Comes In Many Degrees
As personal trainers, we know the value of exercise. Health improves, stamina builds and strength increases. We live it, push it and profess our claims.…
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Isometrics: Immovable Forces Toward Strength and Growth
Personal training is not always about how much weight a client can lift. Sometimes lifting no weight at all can challenge a client in new…
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Fitness Branding: Considerations for Creating a Strong Brand
Whether you are building a new company, trying to promote your personal brand, or want to re-evaluate the fitness business you’ve had for years, being…
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IT Band Syndrome: It’s Not Your IT Band!
Whether your clients have complained about it being tight or you’ve experienced it firsthand, the IT band is searched popularly on YouTube and commonly among…
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The Curtsy Lunge: How to do it and why you should
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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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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