Assessing Lumbar and Hamstring Dominance over Gluteal Engagement
Most trainers understand that many clients have "sleepy glutes" that need to be woken up and activated properly in order to perform basic exercises without [...]
Promoting a Growth Mindset: Helping Fitness Clients Achieve and Succeed
Most trainers have encountered a client who outwardly appeared to have all the ability and desire needed to achieve their personal goals and aspirations, yet [...]
Calculating a Client’s 1RM
Fitness professionals define muscular strength as the physical ability to generate force against an external load. The 1RM simply represents the maximum amount of force [...]
VO2 Max for Healthspan
Regardless of what a client's focus is for fitness, professional trainers can and should stress the importance of sustaining and building cardiorespiratory and cardiovascular capacity. [...]
Assessing Ankle Mobility
If assessing ankle mobility is not on your checklist of assessments to complete with a new or existing client, you might consider adding it [...]
Waist Circumference vs BMI: Helping Clients Measure Up
Educating our clients on how to improve health outcomes certainly falls under the purview of health and fitness coaching. With that, explaining the relevance of [...]
How Well Do Body Composition Scans Work?
Clients can prepare clean meals, hydrate sufficiently, and train properly, yet still find that truly positive results elude them. What other resources may prove useful? [...]
Assess Don’t Guess: Using Assessments to Support Client Coaching
As personal trainers we have a due diligence to keep our clients safe and injury-free in tandem with helping them reach their goals. Before your [...]
Functional Gait Assessment: a Performance Precursor and Disease Marker
Gait can be a four-letter word with unfortunate consequences if one's stride becomes disorderly or abnormal. Personal trainers who can perform a functional gait assessment [...]
Striding Right for Fitness and Health
Human strides truly are what made us who we were for Paleolithic hunting and gathering ways and means. Walking and motion still make us who [...]