AFPA Health and Fitness Blog

Does your client lead a sedentary lifestyle?

You think you’ve got it: the perfect blend of strength training exercises that’ll help your client achieve their dream body.

Does your client complain of an ‘overall feeling of collapse and weakness’ in their cores? Is your client getting increasingly self-conscious about their rounded, protruding belly ‘pooch’ – and desperate for your help in getting rid of it?

Motivational interviewing is a powerful tool to support clients in being active leaders of their own health and wellness journey. 

The process of designing a client’s fitness program can feel a little like building with Legos.

Craft individualized workout program, check. Walk your client through every movement to ensure proper lifting form and technique; check.

The postpartum recovery period comes with its own set of physical changes.

Client injury. Also synonymous with the word “nightmare” when you’re a certified personal trainer, especially when the said injury is sustained as a direct result of your training program.

Ideal body weight, also called lean body weight, is a family of indexes that have been used for almost 150 years. It is used in emergency settings, and its use has been reinforced during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

A woman’s abdomen expands significantly over the course of the 40 weeks of pregnancy—it stretches and widens to make space for a growing baby, the placenta, and the fluids that will nourish and carry the baby to term.