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The Cooper Institute now offers a free online tool for youth fitness, The FitnessGram Playground, to improve kids’ physical fitness and mental well-being.
Read MoreDo your motivational messages incorporate the latest evidence-based practices on how to support behavioral change in your more sedentary clients?
Read MoreHigh-intensity interval training prevents impairments in glucose tolerance, among other negative effects, from a short period of sleep restriction.
Read MoreVigorous exercise may lessen food cravings and counteract mood impairments resulting from multiple nights of short or fragmented sleep.
Read MoreChances are you’re using eccentric training to improve muscular strength and power, and build lean mass. But are you measuring its effectiveness?
Read MoreAre you strength training with fixed-rest intervals between sets, or do you use self-selected rest intervals?
Read MoreMany fit pros are evaluating how to update their revenue models in light of the pandemic. Experts agree a good pathway is to emphasize how training promotes health.
Read MoreA review study highlights another opportunity for fit pros: helping women reduce feelings of extreme tiredness in the postpartum period.
Read MoreSupporting a healthy immune system is particularly important during the pandemic, and exercise is one way to boost health.
Read MoreThis column presents a research review of what science says about the known performance benefits of resistance training for runners and provides evidence-based suggestions for what types of resistance training programs work best for competitive runners.
Read MoreKey strategies for making human connections with clients to help fitness professionals during this “new normal” and beyond.
Read MoreA great opportunity exists for health and wellness coaches ready to embrace the online/virtual environment through telemedicine and online coaching.
Read MoreWhether it’s been a few weeks or a few months, personal trainers must update programs to fit clients’ current status, not their pre-coronavirus fitness levels.
Read MoreDr. Barry McGlumphy notes that “many of the techniques used with professional football players can be applied to most physically active people.”
Read MoreThe American Heart Association has published interim CPR guidelines to help rescuers treat victims of cardiac arrest with suspected or confirmed COVID-19.
Read MoreResearchers found that not performing repetitions to failure may be more effective at increasing muscle size and endurance in untrained individuals.
Read MoreSome people with darker skin tones have experienced inaccurate heart rate readings when using HR monitors.
Read MoreIn an industry that strives to help people improve health and fitness, there is still a significant amount of judgment and stigma toward people with obesity.
Read MoreDo you include gait analysis in your assessments to help you craft the perfect program? A new technology may simplify the process.
Read MoreAre you or any of your facility’s trainers offering streaming programs?
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IDEA Fitness Journal
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December 2019
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