Archive for November 2009
The Special Time Slot
Thousands of people with health conditions or chronic diseases do not know where to find exercise programs that meet their specific needs. Designing specialty programs for individuals with particular medical conditions is a potentially rewarding niche for both your members and your business. Your fitness facility has the opportunity to increase ancillary profits considerably through specialized programming.
Read MoreYoga Fundamentals: Pose by Pose
When teaching yoga, what are the fundamental, or central, themes to focus on, and among the numerous poses, which are the most important ones for your students to practice? In yoga, the following themes are essential:
Read MoreCreating Internships for Personal Trainers
Internship programs provide supervised practical experience for people wanting to gain hands-on knowledge in a specific area of the health and fitness industry. Designing and running your own internship program can be a rewarding experience for both you and your students.
Read MoreBalance Training for Seniors
One of the most challenging issues that affect older adults is instability and loss of balance. Improving balance is vital for improving the quality of this population’s workouts. Recognizing and enhancing the various components of balance provides the greatest chance for success.
Read MoreFunctional Training Defined
Movement may be the most unifying language in the world. And yet, while spoken languages—English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, etc.—have principles and rules that form and guide their respective semantic systems, the language of movement has not been categorized in this way . . . until now! The Gray Institute has taken upon itself the task of creating “functional nomenclature” that can accurately define and describe all movement.
Read MoreSample Class: 3, 2, 1, Dance!
So you think you can’t dance? You don’t need to be a professional dancer to teach a fun, heart-pumping, soul-soaring dance-based class.
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