Celebrating Non-scale Victories with Clients

Historically and socially, the barometer for “success” related to health and fitness has been the number on the scale. Many individuals, including our...

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Planning the Perfect Fitness Week

As a health and exercise professional, you most likely work with your clients one to three times per week. This creates the opportunity for your clien...

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Tips for Training Senior Athletes

Baby boomers who once fueled the growth of the fitness industry in their younger years are now gravitating toward fitness-related activities, includin...

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Keep Your Clients and Participants Motivated Throughout the Holiday Season

With increased family obligations, traveling, shopping and stress, the holidays can be a difficult time to maintain a consistent workout schedule. As ...

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7 Reasons to Start a Career in Personal Training

  If you're interested in starting a rewarding career in fitness, check out the ACE Personal Trainer Certification. ...

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Balancing Act: How to Incorporate Balance Work Into Your Training Sessions

Balance, which is often overlooked and undertrained, is necessary for all functional movements and essential for the prevention of falls and fall-rela...

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5 Keystone Nutrition Habits to Encourage Your Clients to Adapt

When it comes to discussing behavior change and nutrition with your clients, it is outside of your scope of practice as a health and exercise professi...

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Six Things to Know About Modern Knee Replacement Surgery

Few things can derail your health and fitness goals faster than pain—and knee pain is one of the most common complaints. From sharp, stabbing pain to ...

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The Power of Motion

What if you possessed a power to increase your overall potential, extend your longevity and help prevent disease? The extraordinary thing is, that yo...

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Working with Older Adults with Alzheimer’s Disease

As a health and exercise professional who works with older adults, you may encounter clients who suffer from dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is the fift...

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Cardio Workouts: How to Use Watts to Keep Your Clients Motivated and Engaged

Cardiorespiratory training is an essential element to achieving top physical health, but not everyone enjoys doing it. This creates a challenge for he...

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Exercise Tips for BIG Gains Without Pain

Imagine explaining to your great-great-great-great-grandparents what the biggest health threat to the industrialized world currently is: “We have too ...

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Power Training for Active Agers

Beginning at age 40, muscle mass begins to diminish. This corresponds to a progressive loss in muscle strength. Unfortunately, power ebbs at an even f...

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Six Ways to Help Active Agers Stay Forever Fit

Creating a sense of community is key when connecting to active agers in group fitness classes. These participants want to be challenged while having a...

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Exercise Considerations for Clients With Total Joint Replacement

One of the most common chronic conditions among people over the age of 50 is osteoarthritis, which is a progressive degenerative condition that worsen...

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5 Things to Know About Exercise for Your Fascia

The first personal trainers were typically bodybuilders who were hired to help clients develop large, well-defined muscles. For this reason, many trad...

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Working with Breast Cancer Survivors: Program Design and Beyond

Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in women, which means it is likely that you will have clients who are breast cancer survivors....

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Getting in Shape for Winter Sports

Winter is coming. No, this is not a reference to HBO’s hit show Game of Thrones, but is a simple reality of the calendar. It may seem like we were jus...

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Heavy Tire Workout

Lifting heavy tires has long been a staple of Strongman training and competitions, and it’s recently made its way to a number of fitness facilities an...

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Strongman Exercises That Work Great for Fitness Clients

Most people think strongman exercises are just about extreme heavy lifting, which isn’t surprising given the types of exercises associated with ...

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Pre & Postnatal Running: What You Need to Know

Runners are a different breed. There is a mindset and intention that runners possess that makes the distance something longed for, something to settle...

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A Foam Roller…Workout?

Foam rollers are everywhere, so why not use them for everything? While they are typically considered a warm-up and/or recovery tool, you might be surp...

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Low-back Rehab Exercises: Stuart McGill’s “Big Three"

Thirty-one million Americans will experience back pain at any given time, according to the American Chiropractic Association, with disc bulges and her...

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Progressions and Regressions: What Do They Look Like?

Clients come in all shapes and sizes, with a wide range of abilities and goals. For this reason, understanding how to progress and regress specific ex...

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5 Ways to Build a Strong Coach-Client Bond

You’re knowledgeable and eager to coach your clients as they work toward a healthier lifestyle. Based on your hard-earned certification and know...

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4 Deadlift Variations to Spice Up Your Programming

You may have a favorite food, but no matter how much you love a particular flavor, you have to admit that, after a while, you want something different...

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4 Easy Yoga Flows to Include in Your Group Fitness Class

Did you know that many of the exercises you do regularly in your group fitness classes have their roots in traditional yoga practices? From lunges to ...

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Getting in Shape for Winter Sports

Winter is coming. No, this is not a reference to HBO’s hit show Game of Thrones, but is a simple reality of the calendar. It may seem like we were jus...

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Heavy Tire Workout

Lifting heavy tires has long been a staple of Strongman training and competitions, and it’s recently made its way to a number of fitness facilities an...

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Strongman Exercises That Work Great for Fitness Clients

Most people think strongman exercises are just about extreme heavy lifting, which isn’t surprising given the types of exercises associated with these ...

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Pre- and Postnatal Running: What You Need to Know

Runners are a different breed. There is a mindset and intention that runners possess that makes the distance something longed for, something to settle...

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A Foam Roller…Workout?

Foam rollers are everywhere, so why not use them for everything? While they are typically considered a warm-up and/or recovery tool, you might be surp...

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Low-back Rehab Exercises: Stuart McGill’s “Big Three"

Thirty-one million Americans will experience back pain at any given time, according to the American Chiropractic Association, with disc bulges and her...

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Progressions and Regressions: What Do They Look Like?

Clients come in all shapes and sizes, with a wide range of abilities and goals. For this reason, understanding how to progress and regress specific ex...

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5 Ways to Build a Strong Coach-Client Bond

You’re knowledgeable and eager to coach your clients as they work toward a healthier lifestyle. Based on your hard-earned certification and know...

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4 Deadlift Variations to Spice Up Your Programming

You may have a favorite food, but no matter how much you love a particular flavor, you have to admit that, after a while, you want something different...

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4 Easy Yoga Flows to Include in Your Group Fitness Class

Did you know that many of the exercises you do regularly in your group fitness classes have their roots in traditional yoga practices? From lunges to ...

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Poor, Fine, Good, Better, Best: A Guide to Processed Foods

What do bagged spinach, canned tuna, olive oil, granola bars and frozen burritos have in common? They all are processed foods. Yet, we have been inund...

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5 Tips for Staying Accountable to Health and Fitness Goals at Work

Sometimes the biggest pressure at work isn’t a looming deadline, a demanding client or an upcoming performance review. It’s the pressure to stick to y...

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3 Tips to Maximize Your Time in the Gym

To help your clients get the most out of their time in the gym, practice these three programming tips: Use foundation lifts. Use complex training....

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The Benefits of Unilateral Training

Unilateral exercises are single-leg or single-arm movements. The primary benefit of including unilateral exercises in your training programs is that t...

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Maximizing Motor Learning: Cues Matter

Do you tell your clients to “squeeze those glutes” or “tighten that core” during the execution of an exercise? These cueing te...

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How to Coach People With Specific Health Challenges

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, chronic diseases and conditions—such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and arthr...

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Navigating Program Design and the Client in Pain

Staying in your Lane We've all been there—stuck in the "fast lane" behind someone who's driving slowly. While the unwritten rules of the road may tol...

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Updates to Personal Trainer Certification Exam Content Outline

Here at ACE, we’re committed to ensuring our education and exams evolve with the health and fitness industry. Beginning July 1, 2018, a new Exam Conte...

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Address the Needs, Likes and Wants of Your Older Clients for Maximum Effectiveness

When you are training older clients, what is the ultimate outcome you are trying to achieve? Is it to be more "fit" or "healthy" or even "more functio...

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Client-centric Program Design With the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® Model

Today’s personal training clients are much more sophisticated in their expectations regarding health and fitness than they were in the past. The Inter...

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The Role of Fitness in Our Nation’s Safety

Americans have become more aware of health and wellness in the last several years and "healthy living" and "active lifestyles" have become ubiquitous ...

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Female Lumbo-Pelvic Complex 101

May is Women’s National Health Month and is a time to focus on many aspects of health, from women’s fitness to mental and emotional well-b...

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The Role of Technology in Health Coaching

A paintbrush in the hand of an accomplished artist will render a piece of art, while that same paintbrush in my hand will likely render a mess. The pa...

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