Skills/Tools for Personal Trainers
Machine-Based and Free-Weight Training for Functional Aging
Programming tips to help seniors age not just with grace but with strength through free-weight training and machine-based training.
Jump Roping for Runners
Attention avid runners who are game for something different: Consider adding jump roping to your weekly routine!
Strength Training for Overweight Youth
Here’s some good news about the benefits of strength training for kids: it reduces body fat in children coping with overweight and obesity.
Exercise and Health Coaching for Pregnancy
Research shows that combining regular health coaching with an activity tracker can help women in pregnancy increase daily steps.
Body-Weight HIIT Exercise
Combining these modes of training to create a body-weight HIIT exercise program has proven benefits we’ll explore below.
Glutes, Glutes and More Glutes!
This article discusses the role of the glutes in normal function, defines its architecture, and presents several training techniques.
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.
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.
Evoke Your Client’s Intrinsic Motivation
Help your clients discover their intrinsic motivation through “change talk” in motivational interviewing and achieve their health goals.
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.
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.