As a health and fitness professional, it is vital that you are prepared for any eventuality when working with your clients. Whether you are in the gym, running the city streets or performing jumping jacks in the local park, you just never know what could happen at any given moment. Accidents can and do occur. Should someone fall and fracture their leg, or collapse with the symptoms of a heart attack, an ambulance should, of course, be called.
How To Help Your Clients Build Good Habits
For Personal Trainers, understanding how to motivate your clients and assist them in building good habits will go a long way to helping them achieve their goals. Learn more about habits and motivation and how to practice good habits in your everyday life.
The Rise of Female Personal Trainers
The fitness industry has seen enormous growth and transition over the years, with an increased emphasis on personal training. There has been a significant rise in the number of female personal trainers (PTs) entering the industry.
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Should you use Drop Sets?
In terms of incorporating into your exercise regime, some literature on drop sets compares them to what we’ll term straight sets ie 10 reps, 2-3 minutes rest period between 3 to 4 sets
Setting Non-Performance Based Goals
WHY NON-PERFORMANCE / COMPOSITION-BASED GOALS ARE IMPORTANT TOO!
Having measurable outcomes can be a useful tool to help keep clients motivated about their exercise programs, especially when their numbers are moving in the desired direction. Still, we all know that things sometimes don’t go quite as planned.
Why You Should Have Variety in Your PT Sessions
It’s only natural to assume therefore that in order for our clients to succeed, the training we provide must include a variety of training methods, techniques and varying equipment to ensure that they are not only achieving their own health and fitness goals, but also enjoying their workouts.
The Impact of Alcohol on Exercise and Health
Alcohol can reduce the health benefits of exercise, affect performance and recovery. Our body is always going through muscle protein synthesis by either building new proteins or breaking down proteins for muscle repair. With resistance exercise we stimulate muscle protein synthesis, which causes our body to repair and super compensate so we gain muscle.
The importance of setting fitness goals
Why fitness goals are important:
✔ Keep you on track
✔ Make working out efficient
✔ Help you progress quickly
✔ Help you notice progress
✔ Keep you motivated
Benefits of Pistol Squats
Firstly, it looks awesome. Pulling out a pistol squat in the gym makes people look over and wish they could do it. But that aside, pistol squats have so many benefits that most other leg exercises just can’t compete with.