Reading Nutrition Labels: Guiding Personal Training Clients Through Recent Changes
Nutrition plays a pivotal role in achieving fitness goals, and understanding how to read a nutrition facts panel is a crucial skill for anyone on a fitness journey. As a personal trainer, empowering your clients with the knowledge to interpret these labels can contribute significantly to their overall well-being. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore […]
Reading Nutrition Labels: Guiding Personal Training Clients Through Recent Changes
Nutrition plays a pivotal role in achieving fitness goals, and understanding how to read a nutrition facts panel is a crucial skill for anyone on a fitness journey. As a personal trainer, empowering your clients with the knowledge to interpret these labels can contribute significantly to their overall well-being. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore […]
Avoiding the Commonly-Made Mistakes of New Trainers
Congratulations to all certified personal trainers! After proudly displaying the newly-minted certificate on the gym wall, eager new trainers feel completely prepared to take on the world of fitness, one client at a time. However, in the absence of ample experience, the best tool in anyone’s toolbox, personal trainers may fall prey to a number […]
15 Fitness Challenge Ideas
If you’re looking for fitness challenge ideas, start by knowing a good fitness challenge is one that has a clear starting and ending point with reliable tracking methods. It also needs to motivate the participants, so the challenge should be relevant, engaging, and general enough to get the maximum number of people to opt-in. Some […]
5 Career Options for Certified Personal Trainers
For many starting out or considering a career in personal training, the perception that career options are limited to box-gym coaching still persists despite opportunities for fitness professionals to spread their wings into a number of different areas and venues. Contrary to what many think, certified personal trainers are found in a variety of settings […]
5 Steps to Prepare to Become a Certified Personal Trainer
Congratulations! You took the first big step – you have decided to pursue a career in fitness and want to prepare to become a certified personal trainer. It can seem like an intimidating journey to some, but know that it is a journey more than worth taking. Be fully prepared so you will have a […]
A Personal Training Career–Is it really worth it?
Why choose a career in personal training? The easier question to answer is, why not a career in personal training? A career as a certified personal trainer opens more doors than you might imagine initially. If you’re wondering if a personal training career is right for you, or if it will lead you in a […]
Career Foundation and Development Ideas for Personal Trainers
Laying a solid foundation once becoming a certified personal trainer is an important step and how you continue to educate yourself and carve a path will steer your career. Preparing your thoughts regarding your career foundation and development as a personal trainer may make the difference between success and, well, not being so successful. Read […]
How To Prepare for a Personal Trainer Interview: Attire, Questions, and Practical Portion
Preparing for a personal trainer interview looks similar to interviewing for other types of professional jobs. You will be put under what feels like a microscope, asked to showcase your best attributes and acknowledge your weaknesses. It is also common practice to require those interviewing for a personal training or group fitness position to demonstrate […]
How To Prepare for a Personal Trainer Interview: Attire, Questions, and Practical Portion
Preparing for a personal trainer interview looks similar to interviewing for other types of professional jobs. You will be put under what feels like a microscope, asked to showcase your best attributes and acknowledge your weaknesses. It is also common practice to require those interviewing for a personal training or group fitness position to demonstrate […]