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Teaching the Lunge Exercise: Muscles Worked and Tips on Form to Common Errors...
TEACHING A CLIENT HOW TO DO LUNGES When teaching the lunge exercise, identify the muscles worked, demonstrate the whole movement yourself, and detail the exercise by breaking it down in parts....
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25 Exercises to Improve Balance and Coordination
START BEGINNERS WORKING ON BALANCE STABILIZATION Simple Do-Anywhere Balance Exercises Fun balance exercises for beginners but I also use these drills to warm up and get loose ;). Single leg balance....
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Stretching Chest, Back and Shoulders: Seated Shoulder Flexor Depressor...
Look like a familiar yoga pose? This seated pose is a stretch for the chest, shoulders and biceps. The lats and muscles of the mid back will also enjoy a slight stretching sensation. You don’t have to...
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How To Avoid Knee Injuries – 10 Tips Every Trainer Needs to Know
Know the following strategies for avoiding injuries and practice them with your clients. Listen to knee pain! Listen to every twinge. Don’t perform activities or exercises that cause knee pain or knee...
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The Transverse Abdominis Muscle Contracts to Pull Belly Button Into Spine
You’ve heard of the rectus abdominis muscle – you have two of them running down either side of your abdomen and if you stay fit enough to see them, they look like a pack of 6 or 8 muscles. Well...
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What You Need to Know About Exercise and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory disease, both painful and debilitating. Though not a degenerative joint disease like osteoarthritis, joint pain and disability are severe. Not as common as...
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Muscles of the Respiratory System
Respiratory System Function and Major Players. The respiratory system and pulmonary system are one and the same. Operation oxygen in, carbon dioxide out. Muscles in and around the chest cavity...
View ArticleRICE: Basic First Aid Strategy for All Injuries
RICE is an Appropriate Response to Acute and Chronic Injuries Rest — Ice — Compression — Elevation REST. Depending on the severity of the injury, recommendation for rest could vary from modified...
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Protect Your Back. Avoid Unsupported Forward Flexion of the Lumbar Spine....
You’ve seen them at the gym – the colorful foam blocks primarily used in yoga and Pilates. A foam block can help less flexible clients avoid unsupported forward flexion. What is unsupported forward...
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Stairs Workout for a High Intensity Interval Workout You Don’t Need to Time
I lead a quick stairs workout at noon today that burned 425 calories in just under 30 minutes. After a light warm up to get the legs loose we hit the stairwell and climbed to the top – 10 flights –...
View ArticleBeginner Resistance Training Session for Novice Client
Planning a personal training session for a beginner client? A basic resistance training workout for a beginner or novice client would look something like what I’ve outlined below. It’s a total body...
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Two Types of Muscle Soreness: Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) and Acute...
There are two types of muscle discomfort. Ok ok, muscle pain. Delayed onset muscles soreness (DOMS) and Acute muscle soreness Know why your muscles are sore. Your muscles aren’t broken. Acute muscle...
View ArticleWaist to Hip Ratio – What’s a Good Number and What Classifies Obesity
The waist-to-hip ratio meausres obesity. If you’re tracking your body composition using the waist to hip ratio, focus your attention on getting your numbers below the numbers listed below. Younger...
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Kickstand Fitness Tip of the Day: 5 Tips on How to Overcome an Excercise Plateau
CHANGE IS GOOD! Some clients reach a point where further increases in strength become difficult and progress seems to halt. It’s called a plateau. Try the following five strategies for overcoming...
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Three Exercises that Work Your Posture Muscles
The mid-trapezius and rhomboid muscles are posture muscles. It is critical for the rhomboid and mid traps to have adequate muscle endurance in order to maintain good posture – and so few of us do! The...
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12 Benefits of Muscular Fitness – Find Your Reason to Strength Train
It’s Not Just Your Muscles That Are Getting Stronger 1. Get stronger bones. Increase your bone density with weight bearing activity and don’t stress about snapping them. Brittle bones don’t hold up in...
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Physiologic Training Consideration for Youth: Keep Kids at 10 Seconds for...
Physiologic Training Consideration for Kids: Intensive anaerobic exercise exceeding 10 seconds is not well tolerated. Why? Glycolytic enzymes are lower in kids than adults. So… So they can’t produce...
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Physiologic Training Consideration for Youth: Limit Exercise in Hot Humid...
Physiologic Training Consideration for Kids: Children do not tolerate exercise in hot, humid environments well. Why? Kids have higher submaximal oxygen demands and a lower absolute sweating rate when...
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Killer Ab Routine – Bicycle Break Down Exercise
Upgrade Your Bicycle. Bicycles are an effective abdominal exercise worthy of baking into any challenging ab workout routine. The rectus abdominis and oblique muscles contract to crunch and extend your...
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Physiologic Training Consideration for Youth: Exercise Progression for Youth...
If you are considering training young adults or allowing children to participate in your group fitness classes, it’s important to know the basic exercise guidelines for training youth. Exercise...
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