Fitness Hub

It’s an exciting time, getting your qualifications. You’ve posted your Certificate on Instagram, and are pumped to start your new career and take on the fitness world. First things first, you’ll probably want a nice job to help you get paid for your new skills and gain some good quality experience from more experienced personal trainers.

As a fitness course provider, it is vital that we are keeping up to date with the latest industry trends. One of the more popular trends over the last decade has been the introduction of suspension training. Suspension training is considered a resistance based training method involving a system of ropes, straps and handles to allow the user to work against their own bodyweight.

Myth: Being a Personal Trainer keeps you fit Reality: A good Personal Trainer will observe their client from all angles while they exercise in order to correct technique. This is close to impossible to do while we are exercising ourselves, so most of the time we are at work we are standing, kneeling or crouching in order to help our clients get the most out of their exercises – not working out!

To help you set, maintain and achieve these goals, you’ll need to follow these 5 simple rules: Set goals that will motivate you When setting a goal, that goal should be important to you, for personal reasons, and potentially something that you’ve wanted to achieve for a while. For example, perhaps for a while now, you’ve thought…

Successful personal trainers have one thing in common – they are always wanting to go above and beyond for their clients. Working within an ever-changing and evolving industry, personal trainers need to keep abreast of new and innovative fitness techniques to ensure they are providing their clients with the most comprehensive advice and guidance available.

Not to be confused with the softer exercise or Swiss ball, medicine balls can be used by a range of clients with different fitness goals.

Reality: A good Personal Trainer will observe their client from all angles while they exercise in order to correct technique. This is close to impossible to do while we are exercising ourselves, so most of the time we are at work we are standing, kneeling or crouching in order to help our clients get the most out of their exercises – not working out! Fitting in our own workouts around a busy schedule is just as difficult for us as it is for the general public (so we can relate to the struggle!) – although knowing how to program exercises ourselves and having access to equipment does help.