Personal Training Certification is NOT a Scam

I don’t normally vent online, but okay, for this topic, I’ll make an exception. I came across an article titled…”Certification is a Scam”. That’s what ‘they’ said. Who are ‘they’ you ask?? Let’s face it, usually, ‘they’ are people with some kind of an agenda or something to sell. In the case of personal trainer […]

Starve a Cold or Feed a Fever??

which is? is this a myth?

Senior Role Models

http://www.orionsportstiming.com/results/TheATL20KRelayand10K20KOverall2015.html WILLIAM MORRELL…After all the years of patience, many miles training, intense interval speed work, and nutrition disciplines; a Record Time for the 20K (at 64 years old). Thank you for all your encouragement & support. Thank you. We are getting some pretty strong press from this one. I have talked to Runners World about […]

Online Personal Trainer Certification

is that legit?

Best Ways to Prepare for the NFPT Personal Trainer Exam

We have a lot of serious personal trainer talent coming our way. Unfortunately, sometimes it is only potential talent because it is not being put to use. Why?? Because of that annoying nag of self-doubt called test anxiety! We get it, it’s been a long time since you’ve taken a test, but the worst of it is […]

U.S. Adults Getting Wider around the Middle

The paunch. The front porch. The beer belly. Call it what you will, but the rate of occurrence of abdominal obesity in U.S. adults appears to have grown significantly in the first decade or so of the turn of the century.

Use Your Step Counter App

Do you have one of those nifty step counter apps? Do you pay attention to it? Do you set a daily goal? If not, maybe you should.

Endurance – not just a benefit of good cardio

Endurance is a theme for life…a theme for us all. For personal trainers, you know what endurance means when it comes to cardiovascular fitness. When an individual is well conditioned to maximally use his or her fuel delivery and oxygen providing systems, in other words, having the ‘capacity to last or to withstand’, then you […]

NFPT Trainer and Expedition Hiker: follow his journey on the Appalachian Trail

Coming in January 2016, NFPT will, for the first time, feature one of our own Certified Personal Trainers whose sport is Expedition Hiking. We will follow his personal life journey that led him to fitness and ultimately to hiking. We will share his training regime for his next big adventure and then follow him on […]

Club Paparazzi: Expecting vs. Respecting Privacy in the Gym

*It was bound to happen. A snapshot in time, taken in the most private of moments (in the club locker room..the shower no less!) and it’s shared with the world in the most shameful way possible, to ridicule and belittle. And, to make matters worse, this victim’s photo is distributed by someone who has over […]