5 Reasons Walking is the Best Exercise During Pregnancy

Pregnancy causes many changes in the female body, including weight gain and hormone shifts that can affect energy, mood and appetite. But here’s...

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Tackling the Inactivity Epidemic

ACE Advocacy and Outreach   While a majority of the conversation around getting people moving has been focused on obesity, there has been a s...

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Why Group Fitness Instructors Can Benefit From a Health Coach Education

As a group fitness instructor, you positively impact the participants in your classes by helping them stay motivated to exercise. If you’ve been...

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How to Maximize Efficiency of Workout Time

Delivering time-efficient, highly effective fitness programs is essential to creating a successful career as a personal trainer or health coach. Usin...

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Nutrition Scope of Practice – What You Can Do as a Personal Trainer

The topic of nutrition is somewhat of a slippery slope in the fitness world. The greatest challenge is not always a lack of knowledge on the personal ...

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Targeting 4 Dimensions of Health in your Group Fitness Class

Exercise has the ability to impact more than just physical health. But as group fitness instructors, we often engineer our classes with only this aspe...

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15 Things You Didn't Know About Fruit

You probably think you know everything you need to know about fruit, but here are 15 facts about this delicious food group that just might surprise yo...

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5 Ways to Start the New Year With a Healthier Mindset

It's a New Year, which is the time for new beginnings. Every New Year, clients commit to becoming healthier and making lifestyle changes. Some do this...

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5 Food Trends That Will Dominate in 2017

Say hello to purple coconuts and goodbye to macros! An analysis of food trends for 2017 reveal that overall, consumers want real food, including purp...

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7 Exercises for the Bride to Be

If only we all had a typical bride’s motivation to get in shape. All eyes on her, photographs that last a lifetime and a deeply felt desire to l...

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Your Career Roadmap as a Personal Trainer: Where Are You Now?

In my first year as a health and fitness professional, I went to the big conferences to see my favorite fit pros speak. I desperately wanted to be abl...

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Cardio Before or After Lifting?

Which comes first: shampoo or conditioner? Easy. It's always shampoo. If only exercise were that simple. No matter how good we get at understanding ex...

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Four Questions for Discovering Your Clients’ Real Resolutions

As a health and fitness professional, you know what the New Year entails: resolutions. Your gym or studio becomes busier and new clients seek your gui...

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One Weight Workout Series: The Barbell

To help you and your clients save time and maximize the efficiency of their workouts, we present the One Weight Workout series, with each workout feat...

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6 Ways to Retrain Yourself for a Healthier New Year

The New Year is like springtime for healthy habits. They get to awake from hibernation and frolic in the sun for a little bit. Unfortunately, they oft...

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