Best Practices
Mid-Life Nutrition
As a fitness professional, you understand the profound role movement plays in health, longevity, and quality of life. But when it comes to aging well, exercise is only half the…
Invest in Yourself: A Roadmap to Professional Growth for Fitness Pros
As fitness professionals, we’re experts at helping others invest in themselves. We create growth plans, set milestones, and celebrate our clients’ achievements. But do you have an intentional growth strategy…
A Game Changing Partnership for Fitness Pros and Club Operators
Combining IDEA’s extensive experience in offering education, resources and community support for fitness professionals with CoverMe’s cutting-edge technology, this new strategic partnership is transforming how fitness professionals find job opportunities…
Should More Cities Increase Taxes on Sugary Drinks?
One way to stem the flow of sweetened drinks appears to simply make them more costly by increasing taxes on sugary drinks.
Cybersecurity Tips and Strategies
Outsmart the scammers with these risk management tools and techniques that will help you improve your cybersecurity.
Nutrition Coaching Made Easy!
A nutrition coaching certification is an entry pass to many rewarding opportunities in helping people get healthy by opening a wide range of career paths that target different audiences like…
Cooking Course Can Improve Wellness
A study found people who participated in a 7-week healthy cooking course using a mobile food kitchen reported better mental health.
Nutrition Programming: Increase Brand Awareness & Revenue
How do fitness professionals ethically and legally teach clients in desperate need of nutritional support to maximize optimal health and why should we add nutrition coaching to our businesses?
Food Apps Reduce Junk Food Intake
Perhaps a few taps on a smartphone with food apps can help people zap some unhealthy foods from their diets, says a study.
Smartphones and Poor Eating Habits
Is there a link between smartphones and poor eating habits? Teens who spend more than 2 hours/day on their phones are less likely to eat fruits and veggies.
How to Help Someone Who Is Grieving
Sooner or later, most of us lose someone we care about, and since the start of the pandemic, loss has visited more of us than ever. The pain can be…
The Copycat Diet
It appears we are more likely to follow the food habits we see portrayed most often on social media sites, according to research.
The Art and Science of Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting (IF) can be defined as an eating pattern with periods of little to no energy intake interspersed with periods of normal energy intake, adhered to on a repeating basis.
July 2020 Question of the Month: Are Apps a Weight Loss Winner?
For clients whose primary health focus is to shed a few pounds, perhaps directing them toward a wellness-oriented app could help them nail this goal.
Mobile Apps Aid Weight Loss
Mobile phones are a cozy home for apps with a range of functions, from calling for a ride to recording diet and exercise histories.
Do It for the ‘Gram
Instagram’s billion active monthly users and 500 million active weekly users demand your attention. If you’re doing any marketing for your gym or fitness studio, it’s a platform you can’t afford to ignore.
But, being strong on the 'gram doesn’t have to dominate your time.
Excellent Customer Service in the Digital Age
What has changed with customer service in the last decade, and certainly in the last five years? The intersection of customer service and technology. Nowadays, clients interact more with devices, apps and platforms than they do with a live person. In many instances, these online interactions make for rapid, efficient service.
Virtual Group Fitness Classes
Exercising in front of a television, computer screen or mobile device is nothing new. Since the advent of VHS tapes, fitness programs have offered users an opportunity to get their sweat on whenever they choose in the comfort of their home. Over the past several years, however, fitness facilities have leveraged new technology to offer virtual classes on-site in hopes of luring exercisers out of their living rooms and into the group exercise room.
November 2019 Question of the Month: Is Social Media a Nutritional Black Hole?
Nutrition advice from social media “experts” is best viewed with a huge grain of Himalayan pink salt, says new research presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity. British researchers at the University of Glasgow recently combed through popular U.K. nutrition and weight loss blogs to determine how much of the advice being dished out was trustworthy. The social media influencers were graded on transparency, nutritional soundness and use of research-backed references.