Small Changes to Traditional Exercises Can Yield Big Benefits

How many exercises do you know? Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands? It’s a good thing you do, because most clients like variety in their workout routin...

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Total-body Circuit Featuring the Plyometric Box

Plyometric boxes, or plyoboxes, have become a mainstay in many health clubs and offer endless possibilities for varying your workouts while building e...

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Built to Move

ACE Advocacy and Outreach   The built environment is a term that we often take for granted, but what does it really mean? And how does it aff...

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4 Exercises for Stronger Arms

When you hear the term “strong arms,” you probably think of lean, defined, muscular arms. However, hypertrophy (large muscles) and strengt...

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Strong Body, Strong Mind

ACE Advocacy and Outreach   May is National Mental Health Month, a time to bring awareness to an issue that is often surrounded by misconcept...

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5 Things to Know About METs

Have you ever seen the term MET on a piece of exercise equipment and wondered what it meant? MET stands for metabolic equivalent, which is one way tha...

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Genetics or Lifestyle: Which Matters More for Men's Health?

“The years sure have been kind to you!” I heard from an old friend from my high school days when I encountered him recently. “Nah, l...

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Gut Bacteria and Health

It’s funny how often we hear the expression "go with your gut" when trying to make a big decision. Our "gut instinct" is our intuition—a v...

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Top 10 Mistakes People Make in the Gym

I applaud every person who puts on workout gear and gets his or her butt to the gym! After all, with so many other obligations competing for our time,...

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Top Strategies for Optimal Recovery Between Workouts

You make your health and fitness a priority. You schedule your week around your workouts or favorite fitness classes, and rarely does a day goes by th...

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The Pilates Ball Core-strengthening Workout

The is an effective training tool because it promotes core stabilization by adding resistance, which forces exercisers to activate their pelvic floor ...

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7 Things to Think About Before Making the Move Into Fitness Club Management

Approving time cards, finding substitute instructors, maintaining a staffing schedule, holding regular meetings with staff and responding to member fe...

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5 Chair Exercises for Older Adults

The aging process can be challenging, particularly for those dealing with health and medical issues such as loss of (or deteriorating) hearing and vis...

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Movement is Beautiful: How Exercise Can Make You More Creative

I’ve been doing two things for the majority of my life—exercising and performing in the arts. But it wasn’t until about nine years a...

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How to Create an Inclusive Group Fitness Environment

Group fitness is, for some, the best part of the day. They look forward to lacing up their sneakers and completing an inspiring workout. For others, g...

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How to Train a Client with Chronic Injuries

Training a client with a chronic injury is no small task. This is especially true if a client is injured and the injury has gone undiagnosed and, as a...

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5 Ab Exercises: No Crunches, No Equipment!

We know that performing crunches, which involves flexion of the spine, is one way to fire the rectus abdominis, but when designing abdominal sequences...

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Get Moving May

If there is one thing that exercise professionals and health coaches are passionate about, it’s physical activity. Movement has the potential t...

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