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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.
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Do your motivational messages incorporate the latest evidence-based practices on how to support behavioral change in your more sedentary clients?
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High-intensity interval training prevents impairments in glucose tolerance, among other negative effects, from a short period of sleep restriction.
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Vigorous exercise may lessen food cravings and counteract mood impairments resulting from multiple nights of short or fragmented sleep.
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Chances are you’re using eccentric training to improve muscular strength and power, and build lean mass. But are you measuring its effectiveness?
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Are you strength training with fixed-rest intervals between sets, or do you use self-selected rest intervals?
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Many 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.
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A review study highlights another opportunity for fit pros: helping women reduce feelings of extreme tiredness in the postpartum period.
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Supporting a healthy immune system is particularly important during the pandemic, and exercise is one way to boost health.
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This 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.
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Key strategies for making human connections with clients to help fitness professionals during this “new normal” and beyond.
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A great opportunity exists for health and wellness coaches ready to embrace the online/virtual environment through telemedicine and online coaching.
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Whether 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.
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Dr. Barry McGlumphy notes that “many of the techniques used with professional football players can be applied to most physically active people.”
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The American Heart Association has published interim CPR guidelines to help rescuers treat victims of cardiac arrest with suspected or confirmed COVID-19.
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Researchers found that not performing repetitions to failure may be more effective at increasing muscle size and endurance in untrained individuals.
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Some people with darker skin tones have experienced inaccurate heart rate readings when using HR monitors.
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In 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.
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Do you include gait analysis in your assessments to help you craft the perfect program? A new technology may simplify the process.
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Are 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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