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The First Month Always Sucks
Every new fitness program sucks--at first. Getting into the groove of a new routine or starting a training regimen for the first time are rarely, if ever, easy. That’s why most people quit before they get the results...
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Hybrid Training for Beginners
What Every Personal Trainer Should Know about Working with Beginner Clients
As a trainer it's often simpler training more advanced athletes. Not necessarily easier, but simpler.Â
Beginners have very different challenges and mental barriers to getting in shape than people who are already fit....
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How to Get Your Clients to Really Stick to Their Diets
You've given your client a new diet plan.
You worked hard to make sure it was based on the best scientific principles.
It's worked for many of your other clients.
But for whatever reason, this person just can't seem...
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Nick Cheadle on the Diet and Exercise Principles Every Trainer Should Know
You've heard flexible dieting works well, but you've also heard other trainers get fantastic results with meal planning.
You know that your clients will have to eat at restaurants sometimes, but you're not sure what...
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The Smart Person’s Guide to Fat Loss
It's been said that the world doesn't have a weight loss problem, it has a weight maintenance problem.Â
Most poeple can and do lose some weight in their lives. It's keeping it off that's the hard part.Â
In this...
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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Staying in Shape and Avoiding Burnout
Your schedule is packed from the time you wake up until you go to bed.Â
Your client's lives are often the same way.Â
As a trainer, you basically live the life of an entrepreneur, even if you don't feel that way....
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The Beginner’s Guide to Tricking: How to Become a Backyard Gymnast in Your Spare Time
Imagine if you took much of the structure and most of the rules away from gymnastics.Â
You'd be left with a sport called "tricking."
Tricking combines elements of free-running, parkour and acrobatics to create a...
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I'm a Woman and I'm Worried Lifting Weights Will Make Me Bulky
You've got a client who's thinking about lifting weights.Â
She's excited to start, but she's also concerned that lifting will make her add too much muscle.Â
She doesn't want to look like the guys she sees at her gym,...
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What Supplements are Worth Taking to Stay Healthy?
Most supplements are worthless.
There's either no evidence they work, or good evidence that they don't work.
But that doesn't mean they're all bad.Â
In some cases, it might be hard to get certain nutrients from food...
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How to Help Clients Build the Confidence to Change
"Learned helplessness" is a state where someone has tried and failed enough times, that they basically expect to keep failing no matter what.
As a personal trainer, you'll have clients who never seem to be able to...
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Should Everyone Try to Lose Fat the Same Way?
On the surface, losing fat is simple.
You eat fewer calories than you burn, eat enough protein, and lift weights.Â
But how you implement those principles can be confusing.
Should you carefully track your macronutrient...
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