June, 2005

Successful Cuing for Pilates

Tailor your cues to your clients' preferred methods of learning.

If You Want to Start Working With a New Type of Client, How Do You Educate Yourself About the Population?

Meditation Lowers High Blood Pressure Risk

Tai Chi Improves Balance and Confidence in Older Adults

Employee Benefits Hold Steady

Circle of Support

Patty Jones teams with a life coach to ensure that her clients get a personal training program that spells success.

Family Play Circuit

When clients use their kids as part of the "no time to exercise" excuse, point them toward a local playground.

Surviving a Job Termination

You're fired! Learn how to pick up the pieces and move on.

Beating the Credit Card Blues

Learn how to use credit cards so they work for-rather than against-you.

Spinach and Chicken Salad with Mango

The Size-Sensitive Schedule

Create accessible and achievable classes that welcome overweight participants to your program.

Lactate-Not Guilty as Charged

Sample Class: Buoyant Intervals

Show larger adults how much fun movement can be with this water fitness class.

Demystifying Syndrome X

Why insulin resistance causes metabolic disturbances that can ultimately increase the risk for heart disease and diabetes and how you help.

Standing Strong

Help older adults reduce their risk of falls with a strategically designed balance and strength training program.

Cooking Healthy Fast Food

Want Bigger Classes?

Change your attitude, language and choreography to include plus-size participants.

How to Calculate Calories Expended

Optimize client workouts by using the ACSM metabolic equations to determine exercise intensity and caloric expenditure.

With a Down Dog Here and A Down Dog There, Kids Enjoy Yoga and Meditation at Daycare

American Yoga Market Is $2.95 Billion Strong and Growing

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Ankle Joint

Anatomy, common injuries and postrehab strategies.

Calling All Role Models

Three instructors talk about experiencing the industry in a larger body.

Training Clients With Neuromuscular Disorders

A step-by-step approach.

Yoga Improves Sleep

Keeping Hunger at Bay

How to ward off those real and imaginary pangs of hunger.

For the People

Proposed federal legislation could help you Inspire the World to Fitness.

Substantial Services

Don't shy away from original ideas for larger people.

The Ankle Joint