6 Tips and Exercises for Overweight Clients

    Chances are at some point in your professional personal training career you are going to encounter the opportunity to work with an overweight or obese client. If you are seasoned personal trainer or a newbie to personal training, you may find these tips for training overweight clients helpful!

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    7 Keys to Being a Successful Personal Trainer

    You may define a successful personal trainer as getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame, and/or getting the correct or desired result of an attempt. Whatever your personal definition, below we have provided 7 simple keys to help you be a successful personal trainer by any standard.

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    Permanent Weight Loss Revealed

     

    Permanent Weight Loss Revealed

    By Will Brink

    Most people who read my articles and e-books know me as a science guy who likes to quote studies and apply research to everyday problems such as permanent weight loss, bodybuilding, and other health/fitness related topics. However, sometimes you have to step back from the

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    AFPA Fitness, Trainer, Nutrition & Wellness News

    AFPA Fitness, Trainer, Nutrition & Wellness News this week addresses ways to reboot your fitness resolutions, AFPA conference updates, workout apps, weight gain and stress, how to turn your smart phone into a fitness tracker and so much more. Check it out!

    6 real ways to reboot your fitness

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    5 Tips To Successfully Market Yourself As A Personal Trainer

    5 Tips To Successfully Market Yourself As A Personal Trainer

    As a newly Certified Personal Trainer we want your business to be profitable and successful. Here is a short list of ideas to help you get more clients, retain those personal trainer clients you already have and grow & promote your personal trainer business.

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    Sprint Triathlon

    If you’ve got the guts for a triathlon -- but not enough hours to train -- try a shorter version. A sprint triathlon is a half-mile swim, 12-mile bike ride, and 3-mile run. This is half the distance of an Olympic triathlon and less than a quarter of the distance

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    The Best Health & Fitness Blogs

    Blogging: Everybody's doing it. Read on to discover 60 of the best Health & Fitness Blogs from around the Web to help you stay motivated, and stay fit, healthy and happy all year long!

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    1. Fit-Bottomed Girls
    The Fit-Bottomed Girls offer advice on fitness and nutrition for

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    Why Your BMI Doesn't Tell the Whole Story

    How well do BMI, waist size, and other measurements gauge obesity?

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    Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

    You may have heard of BMI -- body mass index. It's based on your height and weight, and it's widely used to say who's obese, who's overweight (but not obese), who's at

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    13 Things Sure To Slow Down Your Metabolism

    Every cell in your body plays a role in energy metabolism -- the process of turning the food you eat into energy that keeps your heart beating, lungs pumping, and muscles moving. The faster your basal metabolic rate, the more calories you burn. And just like there are ways to

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