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Graduate Harvey Slater: Weight Management Consultant

During the last 30+ years, we’ve certified over 130,000 professionals. Meet one of our featured grads, Harvey Slater, an AFPA Certified Holistic Nutritionist & AFPA Certified Weight Management Consultant, who shifted careers from being a chef to building his own private nutrition practice. How did you originally become interested in health and wellness? I have a […]

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How Nutrients Affect Mood and Behavior

The first article in this series on food and mood explains the chemical basis for how food affects our mood. In this article, we’ll talk more about specific foods and eating habits that affect your mood and the burgeoning field of Nutritional Psychology. What is Nutritional Psychology?

AFPA Graduate Spotlight: Andrew Schuth, Personal Trainer

During the last 30 years, we’ve certified over 130,000 professionals. Meet our featured grad, Andrew Schuth, an AFPA Personal Trainer, who’s been certified with us for 10+ years and has used his certification to build a successful group fitness and personal training business.

What is Intuitive Eating?

New diets are continuously emerging onto the health and wellness scene. The latest and greatest, however, is not so much a diet but more of a non-diet and a lifestyle choice. This most recent trend to show up has, in actuality, been around for decades but thanks to social media, wellness experts and influencers turning […]

How to Name Your Nutrition Coaching Business for Real Results

We’ve mentioned before that your website functions as the digital waiting room for your nutrition coaching business. Following that analogy, your business name is the front door. Before your potential clients enter the waiting room to get more acquainted, your business name greets them and tells them who you are, what you do, and how […]

5 Best Personal Trainer Books to Round Out Your Career

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published July 2017 and has recently been updated and revised for accuracy and comprehensiveness. Taking the fast road to being a knowledgeable and successful personal trainer is not as hard as you may think. A trick that the most well-known trainers have adopted is quite simple. It’s reading.  Reading […]