Heart rate and blood pressure offer powerful clues to clients’ fitness progress.

The world’s leading education conference for personal trainers comes to the Pacific Northwest for the first time May 2–5, 2013, in Seattle.

Continuing education quizzes: Get up to 4 CECs quickly with quizzes from this issue.

Client Success Story: An emphasis on nutrition and technique prepares this client for the long run.

Fitness Entrepreneur: Perfect your pitch to earn a chance to appear on the small screen.

Senior Fitness: Why “senior fitness” is dead, and why every exercise needs to match what older clients can do, not how long they have lived.

“What is the best way to ‘fire’ a client? Under what circumstances would you do this?”

The latest in nutrition news and science.

Nutrition: What You Should Know About Cleanses and Juice Fasts.

Skills and Drills: Help push participants past self-imposed boundaries.

Ebb: Try these challenging stretches with participants who are ready to up the ante.

Class Take-Out: Simplify moves, and challenge the cardiovascular system.

Buzz: Make this year an active one with classes that fuse fun concepts.

Wellness news and research from around the world.

Inner IDEA: A strategy for enhancing clients’ physiological and psychological state.

IDEA FitnessConnect: Get on the inside track with this enhancement to IDEA FitnessConnect.

Research: What your clients need to know about “carb availability.”

Bridging the Gap: Interview Subject: Barbara A. Brehm-Curtis, EdD, shares thoughts on how fitness professionals can put healthy behaviors like eating well and exercising regularly within clients’ grasp.