Help Your Clients Stop Sabotaging Their Health and Fitness Goals Most fitness clients have loosely defined, but well-intended, fitness goals that they hope to reach by working with a personal trainer or nutrition coach. Often times, these goals are focused on losing weight, building muscle, increasing energy, or improving eating habits. Even the most concerted […]
DOMS – Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness
DOMS: Delayed Muscle Soreness “No pain no gain,” said the work out enthusiast doing repetitive bicep curls in the mirror. But what is pain or muscle soreness? A common misconception is the “No pain no gain” slogan, but what some might consider “muscle soreness” could be something even bigger. In this blog post we will […]
How to Start Functional Training at Home
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 […]