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Boost Your Fitness Business This Holiday Season: How to Use ChatGPT to Keep Clients Engaged and Motivated
The holiday season is a unique challenge for fitness professionals. Clients’ routines are disrupted by travel, social gatherings, and holiday indulgences, which often leads to inconsistent training schedules and wavering motivation. On top of that, fitness pros themselves are juggling their own holiday responsibilities while trying to maintain business momentum. It’s easy for things to…
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Is Formal Education Essential for Success as a Personal Trainer?
Does education matter for personal trainers? That singular, burning question has been ever-present throughout my 30+ years in the fitness industry. After deciding to return to college to pursue a master’s degree, I quickly learned that writing a thesis was a requirement. Though I have many questions that remain unanswered when it comes to fitness,…
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Weekend Warriors Reap Benefits
New research shows benefits of one or two days a week of concentrated physical activity. Weekend warriors rejoice. Formerly, experts viewed weekend only training as less valuable than consistent exercise throughout the week. Harvard Medical School researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital recently found that a “weekend warrior” training pattern is equally effective at reducing disease…
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Rotational Power: Moving Beyond the Sagittal Plane
Many clients enthusiastically participate in rotational sports, such as golf, baseball, softball, tennis, pickleball, hockey, lacrosse, handball and volleyball. As fitness professionals, one major goal is to help our clients perform more fluidly in their selected sport activities, while also providing training that helps protect them from injury. However, a traditional strength training program, with…
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Yoga and Low Impact Exercise Helps Older Women with Incontinence
Incontinence is one of the most common health issues for women as they age. Yoga and low impact exercise for at least 12 weeks significantly reduced incontinence episodes, according to a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine (2024) Researchers from leading universities including University of California, San Francisco, and Stanford University, investigated whether yoga exercises…
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Exercise and Healthy Belly Fat
Long-time exercisers have healthier belly fat than new exercisers, in new study. Exercise benefits people even when they gain extra weight. Researchers from the University of Michigan wanted to evaluate whether exercise impacts fat tissue’s structure and function. In a study of 32 subjects with obesity, they examined the differences in belly fat tissue among…
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How Exercise Reduces Depression
Physical activity, particularly aerobic exercise, is known to reduce depressive symptoms, but how is not understood. Researchers from University College London reviewed multiple studies on depression, exercise, motivation, dopamine transmission, and inflammation. Study authors theorize that exercise’s anti-depressant effect comes from its tendency to reduce inflammation, improve dopamine transmission and boost exertion of effort—both physical…
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Exercise and Diet Can Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
More good news promotes the value of exercise. A recent 3-year-long study by University of Eastern Finland researchers focused specifically on men with a high genetic risk of type 2 diabetes. Investigators tracked nearly 1,000 men between 50 to 75 years in either a health-promoting lifestyle group or a control group. The prevalence of type…
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Unexpected Gifts: How Helping Others Live Healthier Lives Shapes our Own
The fitness industry it’s electrifying, deeply connected, and constantly evolving. It’s a force of transformation, empowerment, and connection — unlike any other profession. Those who work within it are bound by shared passion and purpose, kindred spirits united by the desire to make a real impact on people’s lives. We “get” each other because, at…
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High Intensity Training and Appetite Suppression
Vigorous exercise suppresses hunger more than moderate exercise for healthy adult men and women, according to a small study described in Journal of the Endocrine Society (2024). Among a group of healthy men and women in their mid-thirties, scientists measured ghrelin levels and perception of appetite after no exercise, moderate- and high-intensity exercise. Ghrelin is…
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Pre-Natal Exercise May Protect a Child Against Asthma
New research provides even more reasons to motivate mothers to exercise during pregnancy. For the first time, scientists show a link between maternal exercise and nearly half the likelihood of a child developing asthma, when the pregnant mother exercises at least three times a week. This discovery was independent of other maternal and environmental factors.…
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Children’s Fitness Levels and Teen Brain Fitness and Mental Health
Higher levels of motor and aerobic fitness in childhood are linked with better cognitive performance and mental health in adolescence, as reported in Sports Medicine (2024). Researchers from University of Eastern Finland conducted a longitudinal study with 241 boys and girls beginning from the ages of six to 9 years old over an 8-year follow-up…
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Strategies for Starting a Personal Training Business
Today’s fitness industry is being shaped in many ways by entrepreneurs, whether it’s boutique business owners or pros who built a thriving career training clients online coming out of the pandemic. The opportunities are endless for people seeking to craft their own businesses, reach new audiences and serve their communities (even if that community is…
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Health and Fitness Benefits of Performing Aerobic and Resistance Training
You need both aerobic and resistance exercise. But can doing both in one workout cancel out the benefits? Learn the best way to combine them!
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Moms Supporting Moms
In celebration of Mother’s Day 2024, Desi Bartlett, a finalist for the 2023 IDEA® Fitness Awards and a contributing author of the IDEA Fitness Journal, revisits her experience inspiring a prenatal client turned friend through yoga. Reflecting on her 2020 article “A Pregnant Pause,” Desi recalls her clients’ success story in light of the rising…
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Sustaining Behavioral Change
Behavioral change is hard because humans are complicated. Co-creating change with clients requires that you honor how complex behavior can be while also recognizing the efforts required to repattern a lifestyle.
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How is Inflation Impacting Fitness?
How is inflation impacting your clients’ fitness and wellness budgets? Are people tightening their belts not because they’ve lost weight, but because they have fewer dollars to spend at the gym? A survey asked these questions and more to find out how Americans are budgeting for their self-care. Inflation and Fitness In April, 2022, StyleSeat,…
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Newest Fitness Technology Trends
Fitness technology has increasingly become a key element of program design for many personal trainers—we’ve come a long way since pedometers! It seems step trackers and smartwatches were just the beginning; now the industry is blossoming with sweat sensors, skin patches, smart clothing and even contact lenses. What can fitness professionals look forward to in the wearable fit tech space?
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Heart Health, Super Bowl Sunday & Valentine’s Day
Heart disease is a leading cause of death in the United States, claiming the lives of more than 650,000 people per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Sadly, it is a mostly preventable lifestyle disease that is needlessly damaging too many lives.
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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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