by Bill McDonald, Carlsbad, California Personal Training For years and years there has been astigmatism that women should stay away from weight training or resistance training. The concern has been that training with weights would jeopardize a woman’s chances of having a feminine physique. The myth although unfounded is understandable. If you look at the [...]
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How to Communicate the Need for Physical Activity to Older Adults
November 23rd, 2011
admin By Brian Danley; Cupertino, California Personal Training. As a fitness training professional, it will undoubtedly be an increasingly challenging task to attract adults who are 50 years of age or older as clients. This age group is particularly skeptical and oftentimes cynical about fitness and health advertising and services. So how does a professional personal [...]
How to Start Your Exercise Routine
May 20th, 2011
admin Dave Nevue serves personal training clients in Palmer, Massachusetts. Everyone wants immediate results. There is no one workout that will work for everyone; no magic pill and no magic diet. Everyone has a different body type and a proper workout should be designed for that body type, including the stress levels in a person’s life, [...]
Unlocking Your Human Potential
May 20th, 2011
admin John is a certified personal trainer, serving personal training clients in Schenectady, New York 12303. For more information, you can contact John by reviewing his Personal Trainer Central profile page. Unlocking Your Human Potential People often mistakenly equate desire with motivation. But having the desire to reach a goal does not instantaneously provide you with [...]
To Achieve Your Fitness Goals You Must First Create the Habit
February 9th, 2011
admin By Robert Moffett; ISSA Certified Personal Trainer; Ocala, Florida Personal Trainer. It’s now the time of year when companies explode with convincing claims of new and improved ways to quickly lose weight and gain muscle. They range from diet pills to exercise video’s guaranteeing miraculous results. The reality is, we all want to have the [...]
So You Want To Sculpt Your Body?
October 28th, 2010
admin By Martin Mark; Personal Training Professional; Pompano Beach, Florida. ‘Physique Heaven’ Really Can Be Yours So, you want to sculpt your body…..that could be anything from losing a few pounds and gaining some muscle, to becoming a competitive fitness model. Good for you, what ever your goals are it is far better to do something [...]
Know Yourself. Control Yourself. Be Yourself.
September 3rd, 2010
admin By Gabrielle LeBlanc; Personal Training and Sports Conditioning; New Orleans Personal Trainer. Overtime humans have lost the sense of their nature. They’ve become so caught up in the media and how everyone else wants them to be, and lost who they truly are. Believe it or not, we are not our careers, partners, friends, kids, [...]
Microperiodization of Speed, Strength, and Muscle; The Ultimate Bench Workout
September 3rd, 2010
admin By Justin Negrete; Madison, Wisconsin Personal Trainer. We all know in order to get strong you need to lift heavy weights. This type of lower repetition, heavy weight sets can increase myofibrillated hypertrophy, which makes muscle more dense . We have also heard of a method popularized by powerlifters in which you lift lighter weights [...]
Why Do Older Adults Fall Down?
August 4th, 2010
admin By James Lanza; Northridge, CA Personal Training. I wrote an article a while back about balance. How we lose it as we get older. Because of the loss of muscle tissue we pretty much spend our adult life as if we were living inside of a pinball machine. We bang into the furniture, we bump [...]
Study Finds Older Adults Can Live Better Through Exercise
August 4th, 2010
admin By Brian Danley; Cupertino, California Personal Training. The Effect Of Exercise Training On Performance Of Activities Of Daily Living In Older Adults. Exercise training programs improve the cognitive and physical performance of the activities of daily living (ADLs) in older adults. This article reviews two studies which support the concept that the efficacy of a [...]






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