Although exercise is essential for good health, high blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels can undermine or even cancel out the benefits of aerobic exercise.…
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Body Awareness: Active Hands
The quality of training sessions considerably rises when the client begins to think about how they’re moving rather than just doing it. Teaching body awareness…
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Pandemic Protection: COVID-19 Liability Waivers for Fitness Professionals
As fitness professionals, our training and predilections guide us to place a high value on clients’ overall health. We strive to navigate the safest and…
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Fitness Age Gauges for Older Clients
Medicare-aged folks comprise a notable and possibly growing segment of our personal training clientele. Their calendar years may or may not reflect “gym or fitness…
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Turning Client Objections into Opportunities
As fit pros, we’ve all read the part in the NFPT Personal Trainer manual that advises us on how to overcome client objections, right? If…
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Client Fitness Assessments: Charge or Not?
Approaches to fitness assessments are as varied as the individual assessments themselves. Every health and fitness professional will likely have their own approach to conducting…
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What Fitness Pros Can Learn From Economics
As a trainer turned-behavioral economics-major, I’ve become increasingly aware of how economics applies to everything we do in the industry—and it can have a significant…
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Circuits, Combos, and Complexes: 3 Cs to Boost Clients’ Progress
Circuits, combos, and complexes, known as “the 3 C’s of metabolic training”, can be easily integrated into clients’ traditional workout programs. Learn more about these…
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Seven Tips to Reduce Swelling After Running a Marathon
There’s no denying that the fitness prep for a marathon is challenging. However, often it’s the aftereffects of a race that catch up with a…
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Gain a Brand New Client Base with These Personal Training Marketing Tips
The well-being and wellness industries have seen notable growth in the course of recent years, making the personal training profession rewarding and profitable one. Be…
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Lower Leg Joint Anatomy
Many fitness enthusiasts in the course of their fitness journey eventually end up cursing everything from knees to toes. These bones, joints, and other tissues,…
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Fitness Trails
Fitness trails have become a mainstay for personal training exercise programming. I’ll be the first to admit I used to make fun of fitness trails.…
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