Skills/Tools for Personal Trainers
Low-Frequency Bass Increases Activity
A new study found that movement increased by up to 11.8% when concert goers heard low-frequency bass music.
Understanding Women’s Menstrual Cycle and Needs
A study of women’s soccer clubs in Europe shows that coaches lack education around the menstrual cycle, hormonal contraception and pregnancy.
Designing Exercise Programs With Clients
New research suggests that participants should help with adapting and designing exercise programs to their own preferences.
Benefits of Eccentric Exercise
A study found that eccentric exercise movements are the most effective at increasing muscle strength and size.
Programming for Exercise and Medications
Here’s a look at common medication groups, and recommendations for programming for exercise and medications.
Degrees of Functional Abilities, Demystified
The Hierarchy of Functional Aging model includes eight categories of functional abilities to help you assess and training clients.
Coaching Clients Based on Attachment Styles
Understanding attachment styles can provide a window into client motivation and challenges—and offer strategies to encourage success.
Fit Tech Data for Coaching Success
Wearables and the fit tech data they produce have become an opportunity to deepen the client and fitness professional relationship.
Influencing Childhood Activity
Researchers studied influences over children to lead physically active lives, since childhood activity results in better health as an adult.
Guided Self-Help for Childhood Obesity
A new program led to significant reductions in childhood obesity in a primarily Latino community with a prevalence of 38% childhood obesity.
Hitting Daily Activity Goals for Results
When it comes to hitting training goals, daily activity may be more important than meeting a weekly total minute goal.
Evoke Your Client’s Intrinsic Motivation
Help your clients discover their intrinsic motivation through “change talk” in motivational interviewing and achieve their health goals.
Exercise for Fat Loss
Female clients who aren’t getting results with food planning, may need a customized approach involving more exercise for fat loss.
Leisure Activities and Exercise for Older Adults
Research shows that doing different recreational and exercise activities is linked with as much as a 13% lower death risk for older adults.
Types of Exercise and Memory
Planning a workout to help improve mental performance may be possible as scientists tease out the effect of types of exercise on memory.
Walking Faster, Not Farther
10,000 steps a day may reduce disease risks, but research shows that walking faster may provide even more benefits than step volume alone.
More Effective Triceps Exercise
What’s the best triceps exercise? The major muscle of the triceps grows more when working in the overhead position.
Grit in Sports Training
Sports participation is linked with developing life skills that may improve success and build resilience, known as “grit” in sports training.
Vibration Foam Rolling vs. Static Stretching
Vibration foam rolling (VFR) reduces muscle stiffness and increases joint range of motion more effectively than static stretching (SS).
Breast Cancer Survivors Benefit From Strength Training
Researchers in evaluated the benefits of endurance, resistance, or combined endurance and resistance training for breast cancer survivors.