Most people work out to improve how their body looks, but we know that exercise and training can do much more than that. Exercise and training can make it easier to do everyday tasks that start to become more difficult as we age, like carrying a heavy bag of groceries up a flight of stairs […]
How Stress Influences the Brain and Your Immune System
For thousands of years, people believed that stress made you sick. Up until the nineteenth century, the idea that the passions and emotions were intimately linked to disease held weight, and people were told by their doctors to go to spas or seaside resorts when they were ill. Gradually these ideas lost favor as more […]
Importance of Conducting a Simple Training Assessments
What is an Assessment? An assessment is a tool used for either measuring an individual skill or mastery or to evaluate a participant’s biometrics (Blood Pressure or BP, body weight or BW, body fat or BF). It is the responsibility of the coach or trainer to administer any assessment using reliable testing methods that provide […]
Factors Affecting Flexibility and Joint Mobility
As a professional personal trainer or certified coach, it’s vital that you consider all factors affecting flexibility and joint mobility prior to designing a comprehensive performance training program. Joint structure and connective tissue play a significant role in a muscles ability to lengthen and in joint range of motion. Factors that cannot be changed such […]
Can You Combine Training and Coaching?
Do you classify yourself as a trainer or a coach? Or, are you both? Does it matter? Although there are different definitions of a “coach” and a “trainer” we have simplified it here for demonstration purposes. A trainer is someone who helps their clients reach their goals by providing scientifically-based principles and techniques to achieve a very specific […]