Seizure Safety: Exercise and the Epileptic Client
Exercise can benefit the epileptic client. Over 2.5 million Americans are currently living with epilepsy and need exercise just like everyone else. Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by frequent seizures, believed to originate from abnormal spurts of electrical activity in the brain. While the majority of cases have unknown etiology, epilepsy can be brought on […]
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 […]
Shay Vasudeva – Personal Trainer Spotlight
Shay has been in the fitness industry for over 10 years as a trainer, teacher, speaker, and writer. She is actively involved at the college level as both a student and educator. Shay shares her multifaceted fitness career journey and wisdom with the NFPT community in this personal trainer spotlight. Why did you choose NFPT? […]
Join Your Clients’ Fitness Journey and Yield Better Results
Personal trainers who become more involved in client workouts, initiate post-workout engagements and solicit honest feedback may find those clients achieve fitness goals more easily. Your clients’ fitness journey is one they embarked on with you; staying a part of the process in various ways will surely yield them better results. One of the main […]
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 […]
3 Ways the New Tax Law Affects Personal Trainers
Calculating and paying taxes as a personal trainer is both expensive and complicated – and even more so after the passing of the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act in December 2017. In this article, we explore three major ways that this new tax law affects you as an entrepreneurial personal trainer. 1. You may get […]
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 […]
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 […]
Six Success Tips for Your First Year in the Fitness Industry
The first year in a new career venture is – as expected – intimidating and filled with uncertainty, and starting out in the fitness industry is no exception. Success, regardless of how well prepared an individual is, will not happen swiftly but there are steps you can take to ensure that you will not only […]
How To Handle Embarrassing Client Moments
We’ve all been there–your client does something he or she finds embarrassing and you must handle the moment with grace and aplomb. If you are caught off guard in such situations you could make the interaction even more uncomfortable, or potentially even lose your client, by reacting without thinking or failing to react at all. […]