Health Coaching: How the Profession, Impact and Opportunities Grew in 2015

In the midst of a country with changing priorities, including increased emphasis on prevention and wellness, and a greater understanding that the old ...

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5 Ways to Turn Your Passion Into A Career

Love what you do, and you’ll never work a day in your life. Sure, there are practicalities to consider, but if you start from a place of passion...

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Lessons Learned From Last Year’s New Year Resolution Mistakes

The approach of the New Year is a great opportunity to reflect on this past year. What happened over the past 12 months? Did you make New Year’s...

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5 Yoga Poses to Do Before You Go To Sleep

Yoga has a way of calming the nervous system. Through deep breathing, long stretches and relaxing postures, yoga can help induce a good night’s ...

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Christmas Morning Workout

Kettlebells swing, are you lifting? In the gym the lights are flickering. A beautiful sight, We’re happy tonight, Sweating in a winter wonde...

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Health Benefits of Resistant Starch

When you hear the word “starch,” what are the first thoughts that come to mind? Carbs. Glucose. Blood sugar spikes. High insulin levels. ...

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Why You Should Focus on Adding Healthy Habits to Your Life in the New Year

Every year, people all over the world resolve to overcome unhealthy habits by taking away certain elements from their lives. They vow to avoid dessert...

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An Updated Strategy to Teaching Active Agers: 5 Practical Tips for Health and Fitness Pros

One of the most rapidly growing fitness populations across the globe is the active aging market. In fact, fitness programs for older adults are includ...

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A Review of the Healthcare System in 2015

While 2014 saw the full rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and healthcare reform, the implementation and testing of many of the ACA provisions b...

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Keep Your Long-Term Clients Motivated with These 3 Steps

Being able to motivate your long-term clients is an important aspect of being a successful health and fitness professional. Here are three steps to ke...

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Relaxation-promoting Restorative Yoga Routine

Restorative yoga is a gentle form of yoga that involves holding positions for longer periods of time. This type of yoga uses props to support the body...

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4 Nutrition Trends to Look Out For in 2016

As registered dietitians, one of our favorite things about the end of the year is getting to see the forecasted nutrition trends for the next year. We...

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Get Stronger Calves with These 5 Exercises

The calves make up the entire space of the posterior lower leg and are used for important everyday activities like walking, running and jumping. Effec...

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How to Improve Grip Strength

Whether a movement involves lifting, carrying, throwing or swinging, the hands are the first point of contact with any object or weight that is held. ...

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The Importance of Healthy Fats

If you’re wondering about fat and its place in your diet, you’re not alone. Each year the International Food Information Council Foundatio...

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10 Fitness Trends to Look Out For in 2016

As we get ready to put 2015 in the review mirror, it is important to take a look ahead and try to identify growing fitness trends that we might be see...

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10 Daily Habits That Can Cause Muscular Imbalances

Have you ever had a client complain of soreness on only one side of her body? Or had someone blame his workout for an injury? Exercise and sport are b...

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8 Things We Learned About Health and Fitness in 2015

Given today’s hectic lifestyles, it can be a challenge to keep up with all the new discoveries related to exercise, fitness and health. To help ...

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Your 2015 Fitness Tech Holiday Gift Guide

With the 2015 holiday season upon us, you may be searching for that perfect fitness tech gift for your loved ones. Whether they are triathletes, weeke...

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15-minute Cardio Workout Using Nontraditional Equipment

For many people, travel is a necessary component of life. Whether it’s for work, vacation or visiting family for the upcoming holiday season, yo...

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Add These 3 Healthy, Creative Recipes to Your Thanksgiving Day Menu

A typical Thanksgiving meal contains more than 3,000 calories, but you don’t have to break the calorie bank to enjoy your favorite fall foods. H...

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7 Tips for Having Your Best Thanksgiving Ever

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How to Use Drop Sets to Improve Muscle Definition

While some clients hire personal trainers to help them lose weight or increase muscle mass, many are focused on developing sculpted, well-defined musc...

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Nutrient Dense vs. Calorically Dense Food

Have you ever been told to eat “nutrient-rich” or “nutrient-dense” foods? Or to stay away from foods that have “empty ca...

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15-minute Core Workout Using Nontraditional Equipment

Whether you or your clients travel every week or once a year, being away from home shouldn’t stop anyone from working toward personal fitness go...

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Alzheimer’s Disease: How Exercise and Sleep Can Protect the Brain

Exercise produces brain-protective chemicals, and the right type of exercise produces a large bonus of those chemicals. With the population skewing ol...

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ACE Performance Series: Speed Workout

There’s more to speed training than just running fast. These exercises, which feature equipment from SKLZ, are both fun and effective for warm...

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3 Secrets to Forming New Healthy Habits

When working with clients who are trying to change behaviors, the goal is to help them identify and integrate new, healthier behaviors into their dail...

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15-minute Lower-body Workout Using Nontraditional Equipment

For many people, travel is a necessary component of life. Whether it’s for work, vacation or visiting family for the upcoming holiday season, yo...

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ACE Performance Series: Power Workout

Power training is not only essential for athletes—it’s a great way to maintain mobility and stability throughout the body, and make ever...

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6 Standing Ab Exercises

Why should you be doing standing abdominal exercises? By changing the position in which you perform an exercise, you change the way your body moves an...

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Tips for Clients Who Want to Start a Weight Loss Program

According to Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009–2010, more than two out of every three adults in the United St...

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15-Minute Upper-Body Workout Using Nontraditional Equipment

For many people, travel is a necessary component of life. Whether it’s for work, vacation or visiting family for the upcoming holiday season, yo...

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Motivation Techniques for Your Hard-to-motivate Clients

It can be a challenge to break through motivational barriers in clients who need our help the most—those struggling with obesity and its health ...

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Slow-twitch vs. Fast-twitch Muscle Fibers

If you watch sports on TV, at some point you’ve probably heard a commentator talk about an athlete having explosive or powerful muscles. For exa...

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ACE Performance Series: Agility Work

Agility training isn’t just for athletes. After all, everyday life requires us to change directions and be able to maintain balance and contro...

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Halloween Workout: 7 Spooky Moves to Scare Off Weight Gain

For those who like to dress up and enjoy the revelry, Halloween can be one of the most fun holiday events of the year. The challenge is that Halloween...

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How Healthy Habits Can Make Your Life Easier

“Habit” is one of those unfortunate words that, through frequency of use, become exclusively associated with negatives. Like the word &ldq...

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Walk the Talk! A Fitness Professional’s Guide to Developing Walking Programs

ACE strongly supports Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action on Walking and Walkable Communities as part of our mission and commi...

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Food Swaps for Increased Energy

Who wouldn’t more energy these days? You, your clients and just about every other person in America would be our guess. Whether it’s your ...

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Does Fasted Cardio Provide Significant Benefits?

As a personal trainer, you provide your clients with realistic, evidence-based health and fitness advice, and help them navigate through the countless...

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7 TRX Plank Variations for a Stronger Core

The word “core” is thrown around so often in today’s movement classes, it’s almost lost all meaning. The core doesn’t me...

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3 Healthy Vegetarian Recipes

October is Vegetarian Awareness Month. If you’ve been looking for a reason to incorporate more plant-based foods into your meal plans, there&rsq...

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Ask Yourself These Five Questions to Achieve Greater Mindfulness

The human brain is a most amazing thing. When we focus, set out to do something and take action, our brains can lead us to accomplish amazing feats&md...

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5 Exercises to Improve Wrist Mobility

For many people, working at a computer or typing on a tablet at phone is how we spend a majority of our day. This can lead to several biomechanical is...

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A Trainer’s Must-have Equipment List

Whether you’re a newly certified trainer or a seasoned trainer who is considering going solo, you’ll need a few pieces of fitness equipmen...

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5 Speed Cord Band Drills

A speed cord is a versatile tool for applying resistance to traditional strength and plyometric exercises. These bands increase intensity and improve ...

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Things to Consider Before Becoming a Personal Trainer

On a scale of 1 to 10, how comfortable are you with uncertainty and variability in your income? This will be especially relevant in the early days of ...

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Strengthen Your Ankles with These 4 Stability and Mobility Exercises

The ankle is a complex hinge joint that is primarily defined by the shin bone (tibia) and its meeting with the talus bone on top of the foot. There ar...

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6 Reaction Drills to Enhance Cognitive Processing

Reaction drills are a great way to have fun while also enhancing cognitive processing (thinking) and cognitive operation (remembering). Cognitive proc...

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