During the coldest months of the year, personal trainers need to keep a focus on managing their business performance, especially if their business is outdoors!. Read on to find out more.
Strength training for women over 50
“It’s as critical to your health as mammograms and annual doctor visits.” – Holly Perkins, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist What is strength training? Strength training (also called resistance training or weight training) involves applying resistance to muscular contraction to build your muscle strength and endurance, using free weights, weight machines, resistance bands or even…
Personal Trainers: How to Motivate Your Clients
As a personal trainer, training a client is the easy part. Knowing your anatomy, exercise technique and instruction will become second nature after a while. The hard part is trying to figure out how to motivate your clients to show up to training, then being able to motivate them throughout their workout. There is no black…
The benefits of good sleep for exercise and fitness
You don’t grow in the gym; you grow in recovery. You also get faster, leaner and stronger whilst you recover, so it is perfectly reasonable to prioritise recovery in a training program. And recovery doesn’t mean simply drinking a protein shake, it means rest, and there is no better way to rest than to sleep. Numerous studies…
Common Myths vs Realities of being a Personal Trainer
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…
Personal Training for different personality types
A big part of being a Personal Trainer is connecting with your clients, and believe it or not, each and every client has their own unique personality. It is up to you, the PT, to adapt your approach to get the most out of your clients and to develop the PT/client relationship. Here is a…
Introducing medicine balls into a personal training program
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.
What do Kettlebell Exercises Add to a Fitness Program?
Successful personal trainers always have one thing in common – they are always wanting to go above and beyond for their clients.
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