Skills/Tools for Personal Trainers
Sleep Loss? Vigorous Exercise May Reduce Cravings
Vigorous exercise may lessen food cravings and counteract mood impairments resulting from multiple nights of short or fragmented sleep.
Eccentric Training Lacks Uniform Strategies
Chances are you’re using eccentric training to improve muscular strength and power, and build lean mass. But are you measuring its effectiveness?
Fixed-Rest Intervals Versus Self-Selected Rest
Are you strength training with fixed-rest intervals between sets, or do you use self-selected rest intervals?
Fit Pros and the Healthcare Continuum
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.
Fit Pros Can Help Women With Postpartum Fatigue
A review study highlights another opportunity for fit pros: helping women reduce feelings of extreme tiredness in the postpartum period.
Safely Exercising During the Pandemic
Supporting a healthy immune system is particularly important during the pandemic, and exercise is one way to boost health.
Resistance Training for Runners Has Arrived
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.
The Power of Connection in the Age of Social Distancing
Key strategies for making human connections with clients to help fitness professionals during this “new normal” and beyond.
How to Succeed at Online Health Coaching
A great opportunity exists for health and wellness coaches ready to embrace the online/virtual environment through telemedicine and online coaching.
Help Clients Return to Training Safely, Smartly
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.
Create Customized Fitness Programs Inspired by Pro Athletes
Dr. Barry McGlumphy notes that “many of the techniques used with professional football players can be applied to most physically active people.”
CPR Modifications in a Pandemic
The American Heart Association has published interim CPR guidelines to help rescuers treat victims of cardiac arrest with suspected or confirmed COVID-19.
Not Training to Muscle Failure May Enhance Muscle Endurance
Researchers found that not performing repetitions to failure may be more effective at increasing muscle size and endurance in untrained individuals.
Wearables That Monitor Heart Rate Now Colorblind
Some people with darker skin tones have experienced inaccurate heart rate readings when using HR monitors.
Weight Bias in the Health and Fitness Industry
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.
Gait Analysis in Your Shoe
Do you include gait analysis in your assessments to help you craft the perfect program? A new technology may simplify the process.
July 2020 Question of the Month: Streaming Programs
Are you or any of your facility’s trainers offering streaming programs?
Fast-Tempo Music Motivates During Exercise
Keep refreshing your up-tempo playlists. Fast-tempo music increases overall exercise tolerance and reduces neuromuscular fatigue, according to a study reported in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (2019; doi:10.1519/JSC.0000000000003417).
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.
Dominant Leg May Have More Endurance
New research shows that single-leg cycling drills may be a valuable way to address dominant/nondominant leg differences. University of Calgary researchers in Canada investigated aerobic performance in relation to leg dominance.
