How To Combat Decision Fatigue Using Simple Criteria
How many times during a day, week, month, or year, do you make decisions for your fitness business? The fitness industry is a fast-moving one and the future of fitness keeps evolving. Or better yet, how many seconds, minutes, hours, days, and weeks do you spend pondering opportunities attempting to make an optimal business decision? […]
Ashlyn Knox–NFPT Personal Trainer Spotlight
Meet Ashlyn Knox, a third-year full-time student at The University of Texas at Austin, where she is studying Business Management and Exercise Science. Like most of our trainers, Ash is passionate about helping others reach their full potential–and why she loves being an NFPT certified personal trainer. Ashlyn spends a lot of her time as […]
Scope of Practice for the Fitness Professional: Massage Therapy
It’s not uncommon for fitness clients to request massages or trigger point release from their personal trainers. Personal trainers have a thorough understanding of the muscular system and, as a result, clients assume they can provide this service. However, personal trainers need to be mindful of their stated scope of practice and refer clients to […]
Trainer Spotlight: Rashidi Gibson
NFPT: Tell us about yourself as it relates to personal training. When did you get started in personal training and why? Beginning in early childhood I became exposed to the importance of health and fitness because my step father taught martial arts, participated in gymnastics, worked part time for SWAT and was the Chief of […]
How to Make New Year Goals a Reality
Setting goals of any kind during the start of a new year is exciting, but creating a plan for success and following through is a whole different beast. Consider these tools and methods for behavior change when helping clients follow through on their New Year goals. Expectations vs. Reality Hopefully, before you’ve even set out […]
How to Conduct a Quality Personal Training Consultation
The beginning of the year brings a flood of new gym enthusiasts, which means trainers are up to their ears in new member consultations. This provides the opportunity for trainers to evaluate themselves and think critically about how they execute a consultation. What’s working and what isn’t? How sure are you that you are conducting […]
Legal and Ethical Scope of Practice for Personal Trainers: A Primer on Professional Conduct
With the lines of health and fitness professionals, including certified personal trainers, being continually blurred with all the cross-over, synergy, and holistic education programs/niches available, it can be quite difficult to discern what is within a personal trainer’s legal and ethical scope of practice with regard to their business. For those who hold multiple certifications, […]
How to Convert a New Member Consultation to a Paying Client
New member consultations are an opportunity to work with a population that will benefit tremendously from a trainer’s expertise that might have otherwise missed out. If the consultation is approached in the right manner it won’t be a waste of time for the trainer; it can actually translate into a lot more business! A majority […]
Patrick Silva, DC–NFPT Personal Trainer Spotlight
This month’s Personal Trainer Spotlight showcases one of our own blog authors known for such riveting articles as Teens Growing Horns and 3 Best Shoulder Warm-ups. Dr. Patrick is a sports chiropractor practicing in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, and I thought it would be grand to highlight a health professional who became a certified personal […]
Workout Hangover? Blame Training, Not Alcohol
Have clients ever complained of experiencing unusual and daunting exhaustion after several intense sessions at the gym? In addition to a cascade of other physiological processes, he or she may have fallen victim to an all-too-common “workout hangover.” Overtraining = Workout Hangover What does a “workout hangover” feel like? Not totally unlike the more commonly […]