What to Expect When You’re Expecting to take a CPT exam
To some, becoming a Certified Personal Trainer sounds like it’s a breeze. Trainers workout frequently, maintain excellent health, and all of their friends ask them for fitness advice. How hard could it possibly be? For others, becoming an exercise professional sounds difficult and intimidating. They can’t imagine memorizing the names of so many muscles and […]
What to Expect When You’re Expecting to take a CPT exam
To some, becoming a Certified Personal Trainer sounds like it’s a breeze. Trainers workout frequently, maintain excellent health, and all of their friends ask them for fitness advice. How hard could it possibly be? For others, becoming an exercise professional sounds difficult and intimidating. They can’t imagine memorizing the names of so many muscles and […]
How to Create Fitness Photos and Graphics for Social Media
Follow these guidelines to attract new personal training clients with your social media photos and graphics. Start with good photos, create a uniform look and design with purpose. As an amateur graphic designer and photographer, I have frequently pondered how to create content that would help me produce photos and designs that best represent the […]
How to Improve Body Image
As a personal trainer, it’s likely that each day you hear some of your clients make negative comments about their bodies. You may even have a difficult time finding kind words to say about your own body. As a health professional, and trusted individual to your clients, it’s important to keep your ears open for […]
Time-Saving Tech for Personal Trainers
You may think that your hours spent planning your social media posts, developing detailed exercise programming, and answering phone calls from potential clients is productive time, but there is likely a lot of wasted time spent in all of those processes. A few minutes shaved off of your office work and phone calls can be directly […]
New Year, New View of Yourself
Kick off New Year’s fitness goals for yourself and clients with a healthy body image in mind. Many people set new years goals like, “I’m going to lose 20 pounds, I’m going to get six pack abs, I’m going to fit into a Size 2 etc.” While setting goals that lead to better physical health aren’t […]
Habit Trackers – Health and Fitness Tracking for Pesonal Training Clients
While it is tempting to set super-sized goals for the New Year, what your personal training clients might need most is to set habit-oriented goals to give them a super-sized lifestyle. When it comes to developing a lifestyle behavior change like regular exercising and a consistently balanced diet, habits must become established. Habit tracking could […]
Eliminating Barriers for Clients Who Say They Don’t Have Time For Fitness
At some point, almost every client may use the excuse “I don’t have time for exercise,” and every fitness professional should be prepared to handle this common barrier to health behaviors. It’s probably true that some clients have busier lives than others, work longer shifts, have more responsibilities outside of work, etc., but we are […]
Combating Fitness Clients’ Negative Self-Talk
Our fitness clients frequently have negative thoughts about body image, performance, or even self-worth that may often manifest in negative words spoken. As personal trainers, we should be prepared to respond to the client with compassion and skillfully guide them towards a more positive mindset and increased confidence. What is Negative Self-Talk? We have a […]
Sun Smarts: How Personal Trainers Can Help Protect Summer Skin
Trainers and clients alike enjoy taking advantage of the sunny summer months and taking their workouts outdoors. Before you grab your running shoes, and rubber tires, consider grabbing a few skin cancer preventing items as well. What is skin cancer? Before you lather up with sunscreen it’s important to know what skin cancer is and […]