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Mindfulness + Step Tracking Boosts Motivation
Research reveals impact of brief mindfulness training on exercise motivation. Adding a few mindful moments at the end of your next training session may be a simple way to strengthen client motivation. In a study reported in Mental Health and Physical Activity (2025; doi: 10.1016/j.mhpa.2025.100680), University of Bath researchers enrolled 109 adults, provided them with…
The Psychology of Seasonal Motivation
September is often described as the “second January” in the fitness world, bringing a wave of renewed motivation. Behavioral scientists have identified this as the “fresh start effect”. These are moments in time that feel like natural opportunities to reset habits. Transitions such as the start of a new season, school year, or month can…
Health Coaching: Behavior Change Strategies
We need to look at ourselves as change agents and implement the following behavior change strategies to help our clients.
Self-Selected Music and Exercise Motivation
Fitness pros appreciate music’s power to motivate clients to enjoy training and to work harder. Trainers and facility owners alike are challenged by how to select the right music to achieve the highest levels of client satisfaction.
Influencing Childhood Activity
Researchers studied influences over children to lead physically active lives, since childhood activity results in better health as an adult.
Evoke Your Client’s Intrinsic Motivation
Help your clients discover their intrinsic motivation through “change talk” in motivational interviewing and achieve their health goals.
Text Messaging Can Boost Daily Walking
Sending frequent text messaging about walking can increase the recipient’s daily steps, according to a study.
Mental Imagery and Running
A new mental imagery technique, “functional imagery training,” may help self-described “nonrunners” complete their first ultra-marathon.
Fitness and Health Motivation on the Rise
Fitness professionals can take advantage of a newly discovered health and fitness motivation as facilities begin reopening.
Motivating Older Athletes
How do you motivate older athletes? Researchers conducted a qualitative study to understand what motivates older male and female triathletes.
Addressing Exercise Barriers
To assist clients in adhering to exercise routines, fitness pros need to have a system to help clients overcome exercise barriers.
WHO’s New Message on Physical Activity
Do your motivational messages incorporate the latest evidence-based practices on how to support behavioral change in your more sedentary clients?
Motivational Interviewing: Talking Their Way to Health
Do you want to be a wrestler or a dancer?
This question stands at the center of motivational interviewing (MI), which emerged more than three decades ago to assist people in making difficult changes like overcoming addiction. Health coaches can use MI to help people stop harmful behaviors and start helpful ones. Consider a likely scenario:
Behavior Change: What the Research Tells Us
Behavior change psychology has immense value to personal trainers and other fitness pros looking to motivate their clients.
What Is Mindset Training? A Primer
Michael Mantell, PhD, has spent the past 40 years urging people to change their minds to improve their bodies, using mindset training.
“I worked with an obese, gay male client, who finally came to realize that he’d been [too] humiliated to go to a gym because his mindset was, ‘People will laugh at me. I look horrible naked. I can’t ever have a lover because I can’t stand how I look, so how will anyone else?
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