Mind-Body
The Nature Prescription
It’s easy to feel stressed, distracted, or even disconnected with today’s uncertainties and fast-paced society. But there’s one powerful solution that doesn’t cost anything and is right outside your door:…
Time Spent Outdoors Boosts Health, Fitness, and Well-Being
In an increasingly digital and fast-paced world, the call of the wild is more than poetic—it’s essential to human health. Emerging research shows that spending time outdoors is a profoundly…
A Comprehensive Approach to Lasting Wellness through Holistic Health
In today’s fast-paced world, many individuals seek more than just physical fitness—they crave complete well-being. Holistic health offers a transformative approach that integrates the mind, body, and spirit, helping people…
Integrating Exercise into Clinical Mental Health Care
In recent years, the role of exercise in mental health treatment has gained significant attention. Beyond its physical benefits, regular physical activity is now recognized as a valuable component in…
Exercise and Its Impact on Mental Well-Being
The Impact of Exercise on Mental Well-Being Exercise is widely known for its physical benefits, but its impact on mental well-being is just as significant. Whether it’s a brisk walk,…
Benefits of Athletic Brain Endurance Training
We’ve all experienced mental fatigue—that feeling when you’re too tired to pay attention or make decisions. Mental fatigue can lead to increased accident risks and poor choices. Elite athletes practiced…
Athletes Have Better Working Memory
Better sports performance is consistently linked with superior working memory performance, according to findings published in Memory. Researchers from University of Jyvaskyla, in Jyväskylä, Finland, conducted a meta-analysis of 21…
How Long to Form a New Habit?
New exercisers face the challenge of sticking with a new activity program. Personal trainers are all too familiar with clients who quit when they don’t experience fast, visible results. Sharing…
Holistic Approaches to Health: Combining Physical Training with Mental Well-being for Optimal Client Results
Holistic health is an increasingly popular and effective approach to fitness and wellness, especially as we come to understand the complex connections between the body and mind. Health and fitness…
Mental Training and Endurance Performance
Three weeks of mental training among untrained exercisers improved endurance exercise performance by 10% over those that did not receive mental training, as reported in the European Journal of Applied Physiology.
Pilates Training Is a Game-Changer
Strong evidence shows that Pilates training is an effective conditioning method for healthy individuals, particularly those wanting to increase core stability. Furthermore, Pilates can be a game-changer for athletes. Benefits…
Meditation Basics
What Is Meditation? Meditation is an approach to training the mind, similar to the way fitness is an approach to training the body. Someone with no knowledge of fitness tools…
Exercise Boosts Neuroplasticity, Helping Depression
In studying physical activity’s effect on depression, researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany found that exercise simultaneously lifts mood and boosts neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to change. It is neuroplasticity that…
Tai Chi Is Good for Older Adults
Why tai chi? These Chinese movement patterns have been around for centuries. In recent years, study after study has proven their benefits—particularly for older exercisers—yet most fitness professionals seem to…
Self-Care Tips for Summer
The past couple years have been a long haul for you and your clients, and now is a great time to review some self-care tips. Enjoy the summer with these…
Mind-Body Pool Fitness
Fitness innovators have been creating mind-body pool fitness offerings, with programs like paddleboard yoga and aquatic Pilates.
Kids Thrive in Nature
It turns out that playing in nature positively affects physical and mental development in children, according to a recent studies.
High-Quality Evidence for Tai Chi’s Benefits
Tai chi has proved to be a safe, effective and enjoyable training method for overall health improvement among adults with numerous chronic conditions.
Who Benefits Most From Visualization Training?
Do you have clients who seem to be able to deeply imagine how a movement would feel in the body? If you do, kinesthetic imagery training may help them improve their sports skills. New research shows that golfers who could imagine the physical feeling of putting while visualizing the action improved their subsequent ability to putt more accurately.
Chair Yoga Improves Quality of Life for Adults With Dementia
Dementia, the fifth-leading cause of death for Americans over 65, affected 5 million American adults in 2014, with numbers growing annually. Psychotropic drugs are often prescribed as therapy, but side effects include dizziness and a higher risk of falls. In the United States, polypharmacy is also an issue for this age group, with more than 44% of men and over 57% of women currently taking five or more medications. Ironically, a side effect of polypharmacy is cognitive impairment.