Career Development Ideas for Personal Fitness Trainers Being a professional in the fitness industry means you are part of an exciting and dynamic field of study. As professionals, we are fortunate to witness new techniques, learn new theories, and develop new practices at a rapid pace. Career development for a personal fitness trainer doesn’t have […]
Do You Need a Deload Week?
If you train day in and day out, week after week, month after month, so on and so forth you may notice that you will find yourself hitting a serious plateau or even worse, losing strength and decreasing performance. Oftentimes fatigue will mask your true fitness level and prevent you from making progress, even though […]
Determining Levels and Progression in Metabolic Conditioning
Determining Levels and Progression It is essential, as a trainer, that it is always kept in mind while training that there will be many different levels of clients to be trained. A trainer will be working with beginners, intermediate and advanced clients. Therefore, the approach used in training will need to be adjusted to each […]
Training Clients with Metabolic Abnormalities
Training Clients with Metabolic Abnormalities The causes and origins of metabolic abnormalities are not always known and cannot always be identified with a beginning point or distinguishing moment. Steps can only be taken to maintain immune system health through proper exercise and nutritional programming. The other 165 or so hours a week (there are 168 […]
The History of Exercise Psychology
The History of Exercise Psychology While we know that exercise psychology is derived from sport psychology, the field of sport psychology has also seen its own challenges on the path to acceptance within the domain of psychology. Currently, it has, at the very least, come to be viewed as a distinct science. Many trainers (and […]