Offering Cooking Demonstrations for Fitness Clients
Hands-on experience in prepping healthy and balanced meals is beneficial for your personal training clients and business. Expand your community by inviting others from your client’s network to the cooking demo. Boost results in the gym by having a more far-reaching impact on what is happening outside your sessions. And, have fun connecting with clients […]
Are Sports Drinks Necessary for Fitness Clients?
Sports drinks are popular training aides, but they may not be the best form of hydration for general recreational activities. Why do so many individuals think these drinks are the best option? Mostly, smart marketing and savvy promotional efforts by the manufacturers increase the appeal (Orru et al., 2018). Whether to drink water or sports […]
Discerning Disordered Eating from Eating Disorders
Encountering a personal training client with disordered eating, which can be distinct from clinical eating disorders, is highly probable at some point in the fitness professional’s career. Fad diets, low caloric intake, and a general preoccupation or obsession with food and body weight are common in American culture and, more specifically, in the health and […]
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Exercise Fatigue– What Personal Trainers Need to Know
Because the symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), can be exacerbated by exertion, there are key points every personal trainer can keep in mind in order to better serve clients who may be sufferers. Some of our clients may experience abnormal fatigue as excess baggage, thereby impacting their capacity and capability to […]
Making Workout Program Adjustments When Your Client is Fatigued
Adaptability is a necessary skill for fitness professionals allowing personal trainers to make on-the-spot program adjustments when a client enters a session feeling tired or fatigued. Here’s how you can manage those last-minute changes when your client is feeling less than 100%. Setting the Tone for the Session It’s best practice to begin a session […]
Making Workout Program Adjustments When Your Client is Bored
As helpful as routine is to an organized day and even more important it is to an exercise program, what can you do if your client is bored with “the usual” approach and clearly needs a change of pace? Here are some ideas you can implement in your personal training programming efforts to help your […]
Making Workout Program Adjustments When Your Client is Injured
How do you proceed when a client enters a session with a minor injury? As personal trainers, we hope and expect our clients will adapt to the programs we uniquely design for them. Still, it’s equally important to remain adaptable and flexible in our approach to personal training. We are, after all, in the people […]
Boosting Your Confidence in the First Year as a Personal Trainer
It can be intimidating starting a new career and especially the first year of being a certified personal trainer. It may be helpful to take some steps to ensure you embark on your new path with assurance and confidence. You’ve successfully passed the exam and are technically ready to start building your business. However, there’s […]
What To Do When Fitness Clients’ Goals Aren’t Met
Setting goals is a necessary first step in the process of personal growth and achievement, and certainly integral to programming for personal training clients. But what happens when goals aren’t met? Is it possible to still make progress? The short answer is – yes! The trick is taking thoughtful action to get your clients (and […]
Things You Didn’t Know About Becoming a Personal Trainer
Despite the commonly held perception that personal trainers are just rep-counters or vain meatheads, being a fitness professional requires abundant knowledge, grit, dedication, and professionalism. Those considering entering this field would do well to hear what seasoned fit pros think the path to becoming a successful personal trainer looks like. Some of the steps an […]