Home Improvement
ISSA's Jack Barnathan Outlines What You Need to Bring Your Workout Home
Home gyms are a growing trend and more people are looking to work out without leaving the house. Before investing in your own h ..
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Shoulder Injuries
At some point in their careers, most powerlifters will experience some form of shoulder pain or injury. Most lifters think of shoulder pain and injury as a normal part of the lifting experience. Still ..
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Improve Muscle Balance and Stability for Increased Performance – Part 1
What is Muscle Balance?
This concept, unfortunately, is the most underemphasized aspect of many fitness programs everywhere. What is muscle balance really? How do you test it? What the heck does it h ..
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Obesity. Who’s to Blame?
We've all heard the message. Lean bodies produced by sound nutrition, cardiovascular exercise and resistance training will reduce the risks of cancer, stroke, heart disease and type II diabetes. Now, ..
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Goooaaalll!
ISSA's Adrian Hutber Encourages Goal Setting This Time, and Every Time, of Year.
With the New Year now upon us, we at the ISSA believe that this is an excellent time to work on resolutions that touch ..
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Hip Stretching and Strengthening Exercises
The hip is made up of over seventeen muscles. The gluteals are comprised of the buttocks and the inner thighs or the adductor muscles. They add the legs back to the body. The adductors pull the leg to ..
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The Price of Training
How Much Should You Pay to Train Your Clients at a Gym?
This issue, we are going to address a question that nearly all new fitness professionals have to face: How does an independent contractor effec ..
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Functional Core Training – Part 3
Core Assessment
This is an area that brings up differing opinions within the fitness and physical therapy worlds, as some trainers such as Clark believe that the use of standing postural assessments ..
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Youth Strength Band Training – Part 1
By Christina Chapan
Part 1
This is a series about using strength bands in your workout. When working with children, bands and balls are a great alternative to weight workouts. Strength bands are ine ..
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Functional Core Training – Part 2
The Concepts of Core Stabilization
The core can be defined as the lumbo-pelvic-hip complex: there are 29 muscles that have attachments within this area. The importance of the core is to maintain the ..
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