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Safe and Effective Outdoor Workouts
Exercising outdoors offers numerous benefits, including fresh air, varied terrain, and exposure to natural light. However, outdoor workouts also present unique challenges and risks. As a fitness professional, it’s crucial to guide your clients in safely navigating these challenges to optimize their exercise experience. This article provides comprehensive guidelines to ensure safe and effective outdoor…
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Outdoor Gait Training and Shin Splints
Many exercisers enjoy treadmill running, but often suffer from shin splints. Outdoor gait training and home exercises significantly reduced pain for subjects in a 4-week study conducted by University of Virginia researchers. Gait training exercises reduced ground contact time, increased cadence, and decreased stride lengths. For home conditioning, participants did single-leg squats and lateral step…
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Black History in Our National Parks
Our national parks have a history of segregation–but a future of inclusion for all.
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Forest Bathing or Urban Parks?
Forest bathing in an actual forest, in contrast to walking in an urban park, provides superior health benefits, according to a report.
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Risks of Exercising in the Heat
Experts caution about risks that can occur when exercising in the heat, particularly for those with preexisting cardiovascular conditions.
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Personal Trainers Ready to Inspire the World to Fitness®
People Need to Exercise Again, and IDEA Personal Trainers are Ready San Diego – February 14, 2022 – Even if people exercised on their own during the past 2 years, it’s not the same as working one-on-one with a personal trainer. Positive health results matter more than ever, and that’s exactly what IDEA Health & Fitness…
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Fitness Trackers and Clients
Fitness trackers aren’t new. Remember when you first strapped on a heart rate monitor and synched it with your watch or cardio machine?
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Hiking: It’s For Everyone!
Telling a person to “take a hike,” used to be a bit of an insult, but sending someone on a trek is really more of a favor. Besides having physical benefits, hiking improves mental health by fostering a relationship with nature. Research shows that spending time among trees and the great outdoors reduces blood pressure, lowers cortisol and adrenaline levels, and amps up the immune system (Mitten 2016).
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Applying Learning Theories to Personal Training
Updated on November 2, 2021 Successful personal trainers are effective teachers and know how to apply learning theories. While personal training in part involves changing the body, teaching is the art of changing the brain—not physically rewiring it, but arranging information and experiences to stimulate learning. Learning involves a change in behavior and alters thinking…
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Health Benefits of Green Exercise
the proliferation of “green exercise” programming resulting from mandated gym closures during COVID-19 has been striking and, by many, welcomed. Like so many of the adaptations that have evolved during this era of pivots, exercising outside is likely here to stay and will give gym owners, fitness entrepreneurs and clients alike more options for creative programming moving forward. Fit pros can use these ideas to keep green exercise sessions fun, safe and productive.
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How To Create a Workout Community
As we return to the group exercise studio, it’s good to remember how a workout community not only brings us together, but helps us thrive.
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Virtual Training Assessments
Virtual personal training isn’t new, but the business aspect is growing, thanks to increased demand and improved technology across the board.
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Fitness Class as Experience
Is your fitness class just a class, or is it an experience? People are ready to move and are seeking experiences that engage them on an emotional level.
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Making Outdoor Fitness Work
Businesses are realizing that outdoor fitness is the ideal way to keep patrons engaged, so we gathered some tips to help you adapt.
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Green Exercise and Urban Settings
A study showed that outdoor exercise can bring about physiological and psychological relaxation in urban environments as well as forest settings.
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Prepare Clients for the Hiking Trail
Some of your clients may be hiking to keep active, and you can support them with a targeted program that considers the specific skills needed to progress.
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Safety Tips for Outdoor Group Exercise
The following tips from the San Francisco Department of Public Health will help fitness professionals take training outside to promote health and safety.
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