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Breathing, Fitness and Everyday Life: Breath Work for Improved Health
We start breathing at birth. So we don’t think about it as much as we should. It’s something we do automatically. We can consciously control it, slow it down, speed
The 10 Most Powerful LinkedIn Branding and Social Selling Tips for Fitness Professionals
You love your customers and clients. Helping them reach their fitness and wellness goals is why you went into business. There is only one problem. You NEED more of them!
SAID Principle: How to use this method for optimal fitness program design
From the NESTA Personal Fitness Trainer Certification Performing various forms of resistance training augments the criteria for improving general and specific forms of strength. A well know criteria and principle
Helping Clients Change Behaviors, Using the Transtheoretical Model as a Strategy
From the NESTA Personal Fitness Trainer Certification Helping clients to change their problem behavior is always a great challenge. Many trainers have no or limited knowledge of useful methods or
Fitness Trainer Education Review: The Psychology of Injury
From the NESTA Personal Fitness Trainer Certification We all know by now that in appropriate quality and quantity can significantly contribute to physical and mental health. On the contrary, too
Fitness Trainer Education Review: Functional Assessment and Dysfunction
Assessments typically either receive high accolades, or are soundly denounced as unworthy of our professional time. The difficulty can be that the information gathered is often difficult to interpret. There
What Makes a Special Population for Personal Trainers and Fitness Instructors?
Excerpt From the NESTA Personal Fitness Trainer Certification There is a good chance that some of your clients will not be in a state of optimal health when you assess
Hallmarks of Aging Role of Glycation Part 8 – Stem Cell Exhausting
As we age, both chronologically and biologically, our regenerative capabilities tend to be less robust. As it is intuitive, one need not go into examples of this to any extent
How to Read Food Labels: What Nutrition Coaches Want You to Know
How to Read Food Labels and Know What You are Buying We have all done it – standing in the aisle while reading the back of a food jar to
Hallmarks of Aging Role of Glycation Part 7: Cellular Senescence
For those that have been keeping pace with my posts on the role of glycation in the processes that constitute the “hallmarks” of aging, you will note that there are
Building the New You One Brick at a Time 3 Ways to Create Goals that Stick
We are a whole week into 2015 and associated resolutions for the New Year. Perhaps you promised to drink less, eat healthier and work out more. If I were to
Hallmarks of Aging Role of Glycation Part 6: Deregulated Nutrient Sensing
by Nicholas Pokoluk Human cellular functions and lifecycles are very rigorously controlled. This control is carried out by intra and extracellular signals that effect proliferation, senescence and apoptosis. There are
