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Spotlight Trainer
of the Month
Joe Virga
Prior to becoming a personal trainer, I worked as a trader on Wall Street for 11 years. At one point, I just didn’t want to deal with all the stress anymore and decided that it was time to live out my true calling. At the time, as a stress relief, I joined CKO Kickboxing. I immediately fell in love with the workout. I had trained myself for the past 10 years and always -since I was a little boy and my dad would tell me about all the old time body builders – had a love for fitness.
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Overcoming the Tendency to Procrastinate
- ISSA's Patrick Gamboa Gets to the Bottom of Procrastination
Question: "What do you say to someone who always says 'Next month I'll start working out ...next month ...next month' etc.?"
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Helping Your Clients Adhere to a Lifelong Exercise Habit — Part 3 of 4
- Hervé Bensabat
So far we have concentrated primarily on ways of integrating physical activity into our approach as fitness trainers, but what about the structured exercise training program itself? Are there program-related factors that can influence adherence and the establishment of a lifelong habit?
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Girls on the Run in Chicago
- Christina Chapan
Children today are bombarded with more choices for recreation than every before. The age of technology not only brings convenience but also an opportunity for a sedentary lifestyle. Parents often struggle to keep their children active and physically fit. It is difficult to find a way to motivate especially preteen girls to have a healthy lifestyle. This challenge increases as children grow up and enter their adolescent years.
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Obesity: Top Three Concerns
- Geoffrey B. Miller
The top three concerns for working with the obese population are a caloric balance, screening/identification, teatment or lifestyle modification
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| Disability: Youth Overview — Part 4 of 5 |
- Christina Chapan
Last month we talked about motor skill differences with children. This month we will discuss various mental disabilities.
- Mental Disabilities
- Down's Syndrome
- Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Moderate Mental Impairment
- Severe Mental Impairment
- Profound Mental Impairment
- Rhett’s Syndrome
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| The Protein Predicament |
- Cameron Baker
The debate over protein requirements for both athletes and the generally active public is well documented and continues to be a highly combustible topic in the realm of health, fitness, athletics, and nutrition...Both sides of the argument claim that the other is extreme in their recommendations and both allege to have “science” backing up their claims.
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| Six Things to do After Closing the Personal Training Sale |
- Jim Labadie
Most personal trainers want to do one thing as soon as someone hands them money for personal training: Run! They’re so afraid of their new client changing their mind that they’d do just about anything to get the heck out of there. But as you’ll discover in this brief article, there is much left to do once the sale has been closed and money has exchanged hands.
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