Posts Tagged ‘personal trainer’

Should You See An Exercise Physiologist, Physiotherapist, or Personal Trainer?

Monday, February 20th, 2023
Female Physiotherapist

If you’re looking to improve your physical fitness and overall health, you may be wondering whether you should see an exercise physiologist, physiotherapist, or personal trainer. Each of these health professionals can help you achieve your fitness goals, but they each have different areas of expertise. Here’s what to know when trying to decide where to seek help. 

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5 Must-Have Fitness Coach Skills

Thursday, December 1st, 2022
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When you’re looking to change the physical composition of your body, it can take years of hard work, determination, and discipline to get results. You have the people who enjoy the luxury of a naturally sculpted physique. But that sadly can’t be everyone. You might have to at least consult top-notch fitness coach skills to learn the basics of refining your physique.

If you’ve decided to start shaping your physical appearance, it is hard to know where to start and if in fact, you’re heading in the right direction. The results speak for themselves but getting good results is the hardest part. 

  1. Honesty – in all aspects of business and personal relations.
  2. Accuracy and Flexibility – programming for specific individuals to get maximum results.
  3. Organization – for both paperwork and digital resources.
  4. Qualifications – degree, license or certification, and experience
  5. People Skills – motivation, sales, articulation, and closure

So if you’re looking to make a difference for yourself it may be worth investing in a fitness coach. Knowing what to look for in one is yet another challenge. So let’s peel back on what should you look for specific to each of the skills listed above.

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Why You Should Have Personal Fitness Goals?

Thursday, October 20th, 2022
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The best time to stay fit is today. Human strength will deteriorate when becoming older. And now that you can still endure working out, better grab a fitness coach to get started. A coach will help you flesh out your personal fitness goals so you can get a head start on your healthy lifestyle. Most of the individuals who chose to exercise alone did not finish well due to a lack of accountability. You can have a glimpse of the attributes of a reliable fitness trainer in the rest of this post. 

One of the common reasons for failing fitness goals is setting unrealistic objectives. This won’t motivate a person to excel but will instead start to doubt their progress in the midst of training. Meeting a fitness goal should be a fun experience and if you feel exhausted, learn to take a pause. 

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How Can I Find the Best Personal Trainer?

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022
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With the holidays here and the new year coming, everyone is going to be focused on getting in shape for the new year. But not everyone knows how to go about making it happen. Personal trainers can be considered the most valuable tool in building your body and helping you get to the best shape of your life. If this interests you or you are already a fitness enthusiast or even a person who does not particularly enjoy working out but wants to do so for reasons beyond simply wanting to look good, here are some tips to help you find the best personal trainer for you.

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How to Find An Effective Muscle-Building Workout on YouTube

Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
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YouTube is a great resource for free workout videos that anyone with a steady internet connection can use. Of course, it is important to know how to tell whether a video is more likely to help or hurt your workout routine. Below are some red and green flags to look for when trying to find an effective muscle-building workout on YouTube. You could obviously read some of the reviews to gauge the popularity and success, but these tips will help you formulate an initial first impression.

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How You Can Be the BEST Personal Trainer

Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
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A career in the fitness industry as the very best personal trainer is incredibly rewarding for a number of reasons. You not only help others to realize their fitness goals, but you play a part in the health and wellness of each of your clients, and work to help them build better habits that can lead to them living longer, healthier, and happier lives. 

Ready to get started in the industry? Read on to discover how to begin a career as a fitness instructor no matter where you currently are on your own journey. 

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Use Social Media to Boost Your Fitness Business

Friday, November 19th, 2021
Use Social Media to Boost Your Fitness Business

Are you wondering how social media can effectively boost your fitness business? If yes, you have to make sure you get noticed while promoting your fitness business through social media platforms. You have to take care of specific facts and trends when attempting to take your fitness business to the next level.        

You can apply several techniques to boost your brand promotion through social media techniques in a short time frame. Do not make your path any more difficult than it needs to be while taking your fitness business and online presence in the right direction. 

Here are some helpful tips to do just that.

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5 Tips to Help Run a New Gym

Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
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When the modern lifestyle is jam-packed with work, family time, a social life, and more, it can be difficult to fit exercise into a busy schedule, but this is where gyms fulfill a very serious need. It can be difficult for busy individuals to get a good workout in from home, and a shiny new gym could be just the answer they’re looking for. Here are some tips to help you run a new gym successfully using expert knowledge, relevant experience, customer relationships, and organization.

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5 Ways to Fill Your Fitness Classes

Monday, October 11th, 2021
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Are you looking for ways to fill your group exercise classes? Maybe you are a new instructor or perhaps you just aren’t finding as many clients as you would like for your fitness classes. It can be a challenge to get people to join if you don’t know the best ways to approach the situation. Check out these suggestions and see how you can make it easier to increase your bookings. 

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Top 5 Social Media Platforms for the Fitness Industry

Tuesday, September 14th, 2021

As the importance of social media is growing with online customer satisfaction, becoming a health and fitness instructor and showing the positive side of your profile is much needed. We need to examine the potential impact of each of the best social media platforms for the fitness industry in order to make the most of our time and effort.

Remember, if you provide quality posts to your followers and customers it will eventually boost your reputation and help your business grow. When your profile attracts new customers, it is six times more than marketing to existing customers.

Social media is free of cost and gives opportunities to everybody to grow their business through it. Therefore you must keep boosting your client base, and to gain more knowledge about your business, nurture relations with existing trainees.

According to Google’s consumer barometer, 68 percent use social media actively. It will be foolish not to reach these mass audiences, even if you just got into social media.

Here are 5 top social media platforms through which you can share ideas and knowledge with fitness freaks around the world. As well as grow your business with digital marketing.

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Why You Might Need a Health Expert To Reach Your Fitness Goals

Saturday, November 21st, 2020
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In the health and wellness world, it might seem easy enough to hit your medical goals with a regular workout and a solid diet. For many in the United States, that may work. However, depending on your hormones, stamina, metabolism, and other factors, achieving weight loss might not be as simple as you once believed.

Whether you’re looking to achieve weight gain through muscle mass or you want to simply improve your overall health, sometimes you simply need an added push. Even if you don’t want to become a bodybuilder, you might want to connect with a health expert so you can achieve your medical goals without any unwanted side effects.

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Tips & Tricks: Langley Personal Training and Personal Fitness Advice From a Certified Trainer

Sunday, January 26th, 2020
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It’s the new year and many folks have fallen out of sync with their resolutions and fitness goals because they don’t know what to do. One of the easiest ways to figure out what to do is to hire a professional for advice. There are thousands of personal trainers around the world, but rather than write a generic personal training post, our foreign correspondent has set up camp and chat with some personal trainers in Langley, British Columbia to get advice for fitness newbies, and provide some tips and tricks for selecting the right expert to help you get fit.

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Should You Be a Personal Trainer?

Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
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If you exercise regularly, then congratulations: You’re already doing better than the majority of Americans. One study found that less than one-fourth of us are moving around enough. If you’re already leading an active lifestyle, then there’s a good chance that you’ve at least thought about working as a personal trainer.

If you like to exercise, it’s tempting to think that’s all you need. After all, if you’re good at working out, maybe you should use your talents to help other people become fitness experts. It’s a nice idea, but it’s usually not that simple. Here are three questions you should answer when deciding whether or not being a personal trainer is the right call.

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How to Choose the Right Personal Training Certification Program

Wednesday, August 1st, 2018

How to be a Personal Trainer

Female PT
* Don’t miss part 1: How to Get a Degree in Exercise Science

* Don’t miss part 2: How to Get a Degree in Physiology

* Don’t miss part 3: How to Get a Degree in Kinesiology

If you enjoy trying all different kinds of physical fitness and you like to keep your own body in peak condition, then perhaps you’re interested in finding a career that allows you to engage in physical activity and impart your knowledge of fitness to others.

Getting Certified in PT

As a certified personal trainer, you can not only meet these professional goals, but you can also put your outgoing personality, communication skills, and motivational strategies to good use by helping others to realize their true potential and meet their fitness goals through targeted training programs.

But before you can get started transforming your clients one physique at a time, you need to obtain the proper certification to practice. If you want to find the one that best suits your personal and professional goals, there are a few things you should consider before you choose.

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Nutrition and Fitness Go Hand in Hand

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

circuit trainingWhen Fitness is the #1 Goal

If you truly want to become fit, there is more to it than just jogging or doing a few sit up every day. As a matter of fact, the food you eat can also cause you not to be fit. The best way to do this is to hire a personal trainer than will help you get a handle on your diet and what you need to know about nutrition in order to become healthier and fit while losing weight or just toning your body.

A personal trainer will not only help you learn about nutrition, but will start you on a fitness program that will fit your own personal goals. Some people without specialized diet requirements may need to hire a personal nutritionist as well, but many trainers, as I personally did, also receive certifications in sports nutrition and other nutritional disciplines in order to offer the most effective diet advice possible and in some cases even write personalized nutrition plans.

In the majority of cases, you will need to start out slow both with diet and exercise, especially if you have not exercised or followed a health eating plan in a very long time. The good news is that you can choose a private, semi-private or group training session so you can train along with a friend and not feel so alone. On the other hand, if you want to work alone with a trainer that can also be accomplished.

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Benefits of Becoming a Fitness Instructor

Tuesday, January 26th, 2016

Become a Gym Instructor, Enjoy a Fitness Boost

You’re fit as a fiddle, bulkier than Hulk Hogan in his prime, and a better cook than Gordon Ramsay – don’t you want to share your knowledge with the world?

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Private gyms are attracting more members than ever, partly thanks to a proliferation of budget deals and a newfound respect for a healthy lifestyle. Many folks the world over have recently become fitness fanatics and it’s pushing the demand for private gym instructors to a record high.

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How Long Does It Take to Become a Certified Personal Trainer?

Thursday, September 5th, 2013

The Personal Training Attitude

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Becoming a personal trainer is something that only a select few are suited for. For one thing, it’s not enough to simply enjoy physical fitness yourself, although that is certainly a prerequisite if you want a career you love. You will need to exhibit specific strengths (pardon the pun) in order to excel in such a field.

You’ll definitely have to be committed to keeping yourself in shape; after all, who wants to listen to a personal trainer that isn’t fit? That’s like trusting a driving instructor that’s never been behind the wheel of a car. However, you also need to have the right disposition. If people want to be barked at and ordered around, they’ll join a boot camp class.

It’s the job of a personal trainer to motivate, not command. You need to be patient and nurturing and employ excellent communication skills. And above all, you have to be passionate about helping others become the best version of themselves. But you also need a fair amount of training under your own belt before you can train others if you don’t want to push them too far or cause undue physical harm. As a result, it may take you a little time to become a personal trainer.

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How to Get a College Degree in Kinesiology

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

How to be a Personal Trainer

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Chapter 3: A Degree in Kinesiology

* Don’t miss part 1: How to Get a Degree in Exercise Science

* Don’t miss part 2: How to Get a Degree in Physiology

Kinesiology is ostensibly the study of human movement, but there’s a lot more to it than looking at variations in gait or the way people tilt their heads. In fact, kinesiology, as a science, tends to be far more concerned with how an in-depth knowledge of movement, including the interdependent roles of physiology, psychology, and body mechanics, pertains to the study of human health, including applications for physical therapy, rehabilitation, and orthopedics, just to name a few areas of potential benefit.

So why might someone be interested in obtaining such a degree? And how can you go about getting one that is the most likely to net you your dream job?

Here are a few pointers to help you obtain the degree in kinesiology that’s right for you.

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How to Get a College Degree in Physiology

Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

How to be a Personal Trainer

Female Physiology

Chapter 2: A Degree in Physiology

* Don’t miss part 1: How to Get a Degree in Exercise Science

If you’ve ever wondered just what it is that makes humans function the way they do, what keeps our bodies and minds up and running, then you might take a shine to the academic field of physiology, which is basically the study of living systems.

Human physiology, in particular, focuses on the physical, mechanical, biological, and chemical makeup of the human body, including cells, organs, and the body as a whole. You might think this sounds an awful lot like anatomy, and truly the two fields are closely related in that they both study the human body.

Whereas anatomy is largely concerned with the form of the human body, including how all the parts are laid out and interconnected, physiology is more interested in the function of these parts and how they work together in a living organism. Most medical fields require the study of both, but if you’re a lot more interested in the function than the form of humans, a degree in physiology is what you’re looking for.

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Why Personal Trainers Should Have Liability Insurance

Friday, January 25th, 2013

Sexy Personal TrainersAll kinds of businesses carry liability insurance as a way to protect themselves from lawsuits should a client slip on a wet floor or fall off a chair in the meeting room, for example. Whenever a client is on your property you are liable for their health and safety, so should they suffer some kind of accident or injury while in your care (so to speak) you could find yourself on the hook for medical bills and other expenses.

Of course, there are other types of liability as well, concerning the products a business manufactures, how they are promoted, copyrights, and so on. But when you’re a personal trainer, the main type of liability you’ll likely be concerned with is the physical variety.

But how does liability insurance apply when you don’t operate out of your own business location?

Does the average personal trainer really need to pay for this type of insurance?

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