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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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Loaded Movement 101
Studying biological and morphological behaviors reveals key basic adaptations inherent in the human body. Namely, changing postures and taking on external loads are critical to our health and survival.
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Social Media Cheat Sheet
If your social media strategy is making you feel exhausted, you’re not alone. Knowing how to market yourself is critical.
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Look up from Lockdown
The lockdown created a new space to explore, and there’s less good news, good news and great news trending among fitness consumers amid the pandemic roller coaster. Personal trainers, group fitness instructors and fitness entrepreneurs are ready to meet movement-hungry people wherever they are on the path to health, wellness and happiness.
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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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Posture Correction for Static Damage
The word posture tends to evoke the image of a schoolgirl standing perfectly erect with a book on her head. More accurately, static posture refers to the way in which a person holds his or her body or assumes certain positions, such as sitting, standing or sleeping. The cumulative effect of the time spent in certain positions can lead to prolonged static-posture damage to both the musculoskeletal and myofascial systems of the body.
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New Council Offers Louder Voice for California Fitness Professionals
“Health is essential.” This was one of many key remarks made during a press conference to announce the re-opening of California fitness facilities.
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Functional Training for Gardeners
Gardening is an endurance activity whose moves are best primed through a good functional training program. Record numbers of new gardeners make this a prime opportunity to market special programming for the gardening enthusiasts in your community.
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Frozen Shoulder? Identify Dysfunction
Our clients work hard to develop shoulders that are aesthetically pleasing, and learning how to spot shoulder impingement and other dysfunction is an integral part of the big somatic “picture.”
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Walking Speed: A Predictor of Functional Health
Slow walking speed has been linked to a greater risk of mortality in older adults, while brisk walking has been linked to better health.
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Diaphragmatic Breathing & Neck Pain
Everyone from elite athletes to average clients can benefit from learning more about breathing or reprogramming the way they breathe. More specifically, by teaching them techniques that emphasize diaphragmatic breathing, you will help them meet their exercise goals.
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Exercise and Inflammation
As fitness professionals, we know that exercise can help boost the body’s immune system. But did you know that physical activity can actually produce an inflammatory response, leading to chronic inflammation? And when a body becomes chronically inflamed, a host of negative and potentially injurious conditions can result.
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