Trainers and clients alike enjoy taking advantage of the sunny summer months and taking their workouts outdoors. Before you grab your running shoes, and rubber…
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How to Choose a Fitness Business Management Software
From Acuity Scheduling to Zenfit, there are hundreds of – literally from A-Z – fitness software platforms and apps that allow fitness professionals to manage…
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Training the Personal Trainer: Can We Walk the Walk?
Despite our best efforts as personal trainers to try to see an experience through the client’s eyes, we often are unable to fully accomplish this…
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Melissa Rohlfs–Personal Trainer Spotlight
Why did you decide to become a health and life coach? I got my fitness nutrition specialist from NFPT a few years ago and was…
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PRP Therapy: An Approach to Healing Pain and Injuries
When pain is great enough to impact exercise habits or even activities of daily life, clients may pursue medical interventions and burgeoning therapies to help…
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BFR Training: How it Works and How to Use it With Fitness Clients
If you are immersed in the world of fitness, chances are you have already heard of, or seen, or researched blood flow restriction (BFR) straps…
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The Overhead Squat: The Best Movement Assessment to Expose Muscle Imbalances
Most personal training clients arrive with muscle imbalances that need to be corrected in order to make gains and prevent injury. The most skillful of…
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Interpreting Signs of Overhead Squat Assessment: Lower Extremity Dysfunction
After getting familiar with performing an overhead squat assessment (OHSA) and noting any signs of imbalance or dysfunction, you’ll have to know what to do…
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How to Perform an Overhead Barbell Press
Execution of a standing overhead barbell press may appear to be a simple movement, but technique is often difficult to nail down due to muscle…
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Gender Bias In Trainer Selection: Helping Clients Make The Right Choice
Whether we want it to or not, gender preference often plays a role when choosing a personal trainer. Unfortunately, this can come at the expense…
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How To Do Bodyweight Dips
Performing bodyweight dips requires mastering your entire bodyweight just like its distant cousins the chin-up and the pull-up. Dips also require extensive shoulder mobility to…
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Soleus Strains: How To Recognize, Prevent and Treat
The soleus is one of the three powerful muscles of the calf that lies behind the gastrocnemius, and runs from the Achilles tendon to behind,…
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