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Leveraging Your Training Skills for the Senior Fitness Market
By Stacey Penney, MS, NASM-CPT, CES, PES,FNS Age is more than a number- it’s an opportunity to serve a growing population. Every day we are bombarded with statistics on seniors and baby boomers, and...
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Back to the Basics: Hypertrophy
Gains don’t happen overnight. It takes your muscles time to respond and adapt to stimuli. Discover the resistance training program variables that will develop the strength gains and growth you or your...
View ArticleBust Through Training Plateaus (and Boredom) with These Programming Swaps
Are your clients hitting a training plateau or getting bored with their workout? Are you getting bored using the same exercises? Try manipulating the training variables to bring in some fun factor...
View ArticleTai Chi for Seniors
While there may be disagreement about how long the Chinese have practiced the martial art of tai chi—2,500 years or 400?—there is little dispute that in its current form, it makes practitioners feel...
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Exercise Progressions: Are You Asking the Right Questions?
If you’re using the calendar to progress clients, it’s time to think about digging deeper into the how and why of progressions. Understanding the phases of learning and the neural continuum can help...
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Fitness Evaluations: Keeping Goals on Track
How are those goals coming along? Setting a goal is about making changes, looking at what is — in the here and now — and what we want it to be. Creating and committing to the path to get there is what...
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Programming for Progressive Core Training
Core training has become a staple of almost all conditioning programs. Whether it is for high-level athletes, the weekend warrior, or your average fitness enthusiast, “working the core” tends to get a...
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Strength Against Alzheimer’s
Exercise can improve the quality of life of those with Alzheimer’s disease—and even slow its progression. Here’s expert insight on motivating and managing clients with early onset and later stages....
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Use It or Lose It: Understanding Muscle Atrophy
As fitness professionals it is easy to keep our focus on the great things that occur from having a healthy and active lifestyle. We know so much about the benefits of exercise and get excited helping...
View ArticleLooking for a Sports Performance Edge? Add a Dose of Anticipation and...
Are you looking for that competitive edge? You might consider ways of stimulating your nervous system. The central governor model is based on the premise that the nervous system strives to maintain...
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