Motivational Interviewing for Personal Trainers: Understanding the Stages of Change

Personal trainers are always looking for new ways to motivate their clients and sometimes it can be a struggle. Motivational interviewing could offer a breakthrough, taking your professionalism as a coach to the next level. When you employ this set of techniques with your personal training clients, you can astutely identify where they fall within […]

5 Tips To Build and Promote an Effective Personal Trainer Website

It should be no surprise having a website for personal trainers is a must, especially if you want to train more clients. Even if you are on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or Snapchat, you need to have an effective personal trainer website. A website adds a level of legitimacy and can be a terrific way to […]

What to Do When Your Clients are on Vacation

How do you maintain a consistent income when clients are fluctuating on and off your schedule? At any given time during the year, you will have clients who are out of town. This could be over winter break, in the summer or even spring and fall if you personal train retired folks. The truth of […]

Anterior Tibialis Anatomy Function and Exercise

Identify the location of anterior tibialis and cue ankle and foot exercises more effectively with clients. I hope you are working your clients ankles and feet. The feet are the first part of the body to hit the ground and what happens at the feet doesn’t stay at the feet…it travels up! Anterior Tibialis Anatomy […]

Posterior Tibialis Anatomy Function and Exercise

Identify the location of posterior tibialis and cue ankle and foot exercises more effectively with clients. Hopefully, you are doing foot and ankle exercises with clients. If so, you are awesome! If not, it’s ok – there is always something new to learn. This knowledge supports the function of every exercise your clients do with […]

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 […]