Going back to the basics with your training can improve your client’s results. Strong foundations are essential for fitness. Especially when working with beginners, keep…
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Eric Su – Personal Trainer Spotlight
Eric is a passionate personal trainer with over 15 years of experience that provides health and fitness solutions for people seeking motivation, education, and inspiration.…
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Proper Form for a Lat Pulldown
Exercise Name & Target Muscle Group The Lat Pulldown is a surprisingly complex exercise that involves far more than the latissimus dorsi muscle. The predominant…
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Keeping Personal Training Clients On Your Schedule
Keeping clients on your schedule is easier said than done. Not everyone will mesh with you. Not everyone will make fitness a priority even if…
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Assessing Cardiovascular Risk with Fitness Clients
Prioritizing and investigating clients’ health history according to recent research and recommendations to minimize risk and identify potential unknown risk factors is part of the…
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How to Study for Your Personal Trainer Certification Exam
Passing exams hasn’t always come easily to me. Yet, I recently studied and passed the NFPT Certified Personal Trainer Exam! I hit some roadblocks along…
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Fitness Programming – A 5D Approach
Most personal trainers cover 4 of the 5 dimensions of fitness programming – muscular strength, endurance, cardiorespiratory fitness, and flexibility. But, are rest days part of…
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Skinny Doesn’t Guarantee Healthy
“Can you help me to lose weight?” is what many females ask when first meeting with a fitness professional. In a world where we are…
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Understanding and Training Pectoralis Major
Knowing where pectoralis major is located, how it moves the surrounding bones, and what exercises strengthen it is essential for exercise programming. Pec major is a…
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The Balancing Act of a Certified Personal Trainer
Being balanced and teaching balance in life and in health is easier said than done. Here are some ideas on how to implement balanced practices…
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Clean Bulk Your Way to More Muscle Mass
It’s common for people to want to put on mass (bulk) and also tone the body. How do we help our clients achieve both these…
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Weight Lifting for Weight Loss
Female clients can use weight lifting to their advantage when wanting to lose weight. I generally don’t encourage a client’s main fitness goal to be “weight…
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