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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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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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Functional Fitness For Active Boomers
Be among the first to learn 3 targeted functional fitness fundamentals for crafting training sessions your over-50 clients will love.
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Arthritis and Exercise
Arthritis is a major health concern. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 23% of all adults in the U.S., more than 54 million people, have arthritis. As a fitness professional, you can make a difference. Both the CDC and the Arthritis Foundation (arthritis.org) agree that exercise is an important tool in arthritis pain management and prevention.
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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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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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