Giving Back Through Fitness I love customer-focused events like customer appreciation or for-charity events. They have the desired effect of making me feel…well, appreciated. But…
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How To Do Pull Ups: A Basic Demo for the Most Fundamental Bodyweight Strength
How to do Pull Ups A pull up is a compound pull exercise that works a large number of muscles in your back, shoulders, and…
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Trainer Tribulations: Apparently Clients Are Not The Only Ones Facing Challenges!
When deciding upon a career path, somewhere between the ages of 17 and 22, we tend to gravitate toward one that reflects not only our…
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The Best Marketing Strategy For You
Flyers posted around town are wasteful if no one’s looking at them. Business cards get lost under the car seat and networking events make many people…
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Personal Trainer Spotlight: Carol Michaels
This month’s Trainer Spotlight is Carol Michaels. Carol is a nationally recognized, highly educated cancer exercise specialist and consultant and has been a fitness professional…
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Latissimus Dorsi is a Core Muscle
Latissimus Dorsi is often thought of as a back/shoulder muscle, but it has a major role in trunk movement. When training the core, it’s essential…
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How to Set Your Sights on Training Visually Impaired Clients
It would be a fallacious expection to believe you’ll only ever encounter non-disabled clientele in your career in the fitness industry. One possibility is being…
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Where Are the Jobs for Personal Trainers? Part 2
Where Are the Jobs Pt. 1 covered three places that just might be flying under the radar when personal trainers go out on the hunt…
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Failure to Plan is a Plan for Failure
In our home over the past few months, schedules seem to be dictated by football. Even though our favorite season, college basketball time, is already…
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Safely Exercising Through Pregnancy
So exciting!!! Getting pregnant is one of those life changing events that will impact your daily life. Since it is such a big deal, it…
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Forward Thinkers Train Backward
As a personal trainer, the skill of aiming a bow and arrow toward a target has never been on my radar… not even in the…
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Where Are the Jobs for Personal Trainers? Pt. 3
This is the third post in the Jobs trilogy. Posts one and two covered six places between them where personal trainers can go in search…
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