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The Best Time for Your Clients To Workout at the Gym

By Keleigh Hall|December 23rd, 2021|Advice to Personal Trainers, Client Relationships|

Helping clients decide when they can train with you to best reach the goals and fit their lifestyle can be tricky. While there are physiological [...]

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Helping Fitness Clients Shift Their Mindset

By Erin Nitschke|November 24th, 2021|Client Relationships, Health Behaviors and Psychology|

The holiday season is fast approaching, and we are entering a time where fitness clients experience extreme “overeaters’ remorse”. With an abundance of food and [...]

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Motivating Yourself Along With Your Clients: Two Sides of The Same Coin

By Keleigh Hall|November 10th, 2021|Client Relationships, Health Behaviors and Psychology|

A large part of being a coach/personal trainer is keeping your clients motivated, but motivating yourself to remain a vigilant and inspiring trainer is just [...]

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Energy Vampires: How to Handle Clients That Drain Your Life Force

By Michele Rogers|October 27th, 2021|Client Relationships, Personal Training Business|

A career in personal training is no doubt far more challenging than most ever expect it to be, and one of the biggest reasons for [...]

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Motivational Messaging: Five Things Fitness Professionals Should Probably Stop Saying

By Kellen Nyemb|October 14th, 2021|Client Relationships, Health Behaviors and Psychology|

As trainers, we are constantly looking for ways to encourage and motivate our clients, and one of the most common ways we do this is [...]

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The Difference Between Pain and Discomfort

By Kellen Nyemb|September 6th, 2021|Client Relationships, Injury Prevention and Treatment|

“That hurts!” We’ve likely all heard our clients express some experience of pain or discomfort. They might say an exercise hurts, or that it is [...]

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Real-Life Skills Transfer to Personal Training

By Cathleen Kronemer|August 27th, 2021|Advice to Personal Trainers, Client Relationships, Personal Training Business|

Transferable skills refer to those actions that we can apply across various industries and roles. Whether we acquire these skills from working in another gym, [...]

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Soft Skills Every Personal Trainer Needs

By Erin Nitschke|August 16th, 2021|Client Relationships, Personal Training Business|

All personal trainers must possess a solid foundational knowledge of exercise science, biomechanics, exercise physiology, anatomy, safety, and program design. But what about those less [...]

  • CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS

8 Valuable Fitness Client Relationship Builders

By Erin Nitschke|July 21st, 2021|Client Relationships|

Even if a health and fitness professional knows the science inside and out, it means very little if that professional is unable to build solid, [...]

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Redirecting Non-compliant Clients

By Cathleen Kronemer|June 8th, 2021|Client Relationships, Gym Etiquette 101|

To a large extent, our daily lineup of clients often dictates our frame of mind. While we strive to uphold professionalism and treat each person [...]

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