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Does the caloric equation really add up?
Does the caloric equation stand up to scrutiny or is it a bit of a sham?
Personal Training Clients for Progress
When you're Personal Training, how do you make sure a client is going to progress? What strategies consistently work?
Delivering the 'personal training experience'
In Personal Training it's not what you do, but how you do it
It's Not the Eating... It's How We're Eating
Personal Trainer and tutor Amanda Phillips brings you a personal account of one of the most common yet overlooked nutritional issues holding PT clients back from great results today.
Why "Less is More" During Exercise Instruction
In this article I'm going to show you the most simple, client friendly and in my opinion, best method of getting your new personal training clients underway with resistance training exercises.
Super Sets in Personal Training - Part 3
In the final part of this 3 part blog Steve talks about super-setting and managing intensity, 3 areas where trainers often go wrong and his final thoughts on how you can make the most of super-setting. Check it out...
Super Sets in Personal Training - Part 2
In Part 2 of this 3 part blog Steve covers how to apply super sets to your PT clients, exercise selection, exercise ordering and compares two workouts side by side. Check it out...
Super Sets in Personal Training - Part 1
A while ago we were asked to discuss super sets and give a bit of a breakdown of their value and possible use. Part 1 of a 3 part blog here...
Poll Results: Which is the Best Workout for Fat Loss?
We asked PT's all over the world the ever burning question: which is the best workout for fat loss? Final poll results here - check it out.
Top ten ways to improve training consistency in clients
These are ten of the easiest ways to increase training consistency for any client - you can implement all of them within a few hours in your business helping your clients immensely
The one thing that makes all the difference
For a big shift in the number of Personal Training clients you produce results for focus on this one thing
Which exercise provides the biggest loads to the gluteals
Presuming your client could complete each of these movements well, which is the best compound exercise to strengthen the gluteals?
Essential Guidelines When Providing Nutritional Advice to Personal Training Clients
How do you make something simple really really complicated? The short answer is; include nutrition in the topic! Nutrition is relatively simple topic, but crikey has it been made into a confusing muddle of misinformation. Who benefits from all the confusion - it’s more likely to be the fast food giants or the publishers of the latest fad diet book or TV show, than your personal training clients.
The Best Way to Instruct Resistance Training Exercises to your Personal Training Clients - The Fundamentals
Your personal training clients only achieve great results when they actually exercise, they'll achieve nothing (other than boredom and frustration) if they have to spend the majority of their personal training session(s) listening to you providing '101 technique do's and don’ts for every single exercise you instruct. And you know what? The more time you're talking the more time your client will be wondering 'what am I paying this personal trainer for?'
The Power of Routines
You can easily build a life that others would literally kill to have. But will your Personal Training Business help you live the way you want? I've been sucking up oxygen on this planet for just over 40 years, the last 20 I've been in and around Personal Training Businesses or Education for almost 40 hours a week. That's roughly 40,000 hours. And, gulp, I only worked out the power of routines a few months ago! I reckon I could have achieved at least twice as much (fun and results) with my time if I'd have learned this sooner. But hey, I'm going to forgive myself and as therapy - tell you what I've discovered.