How to Make a Good PT Profile Even Better
Your profile is your advert, so make sure it works well to promote you and what makes you great! We cover some options for you to improve your profile to attract the right people for you.
Signs you’re ready to get yourself a personal trainer!
Many people would like a personal trainer, someone to motivate them in their exercise goals and keep workouts interesting to avoid the monotony of the same old gym workout time and time again. However, most people don’t end up with one for a few reasons, but principally cost and unsure about how to find one that would work for them.
3 Psychology Techniques You Can Use To Get New Clients
No matter whether it’s personal training, or health and life coaching in general, it all comes down to influencing and changing behaviour. As a coach it’s your job to help people change so that they can help themselves.
6 Tips to Improve Your Fitness Training Program for Women
There are some differences between men and women that need to be kept in mind when you are a PT. The following are 6 tips every Personal Trainer should keep in mind when coaching women.
Love Island….light hearted but body shaming?
The people who make the show select people that are stereotypically ‘fit’, in every sense of the word. All the contestants could be considered attractive; with the guys all well toned with six packs and the ladies slim, toned with nice bums and breasts. There is a mixture of characters to go with the bodies, with many of them showing the naivety there age allows, that they bring out while walking around wearing very little and looking almost too brown from their sun tans.
The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
I doubt I’m the only one that reaches for the stats on my exercise tracking app as soon as I’ve finished a session to see how I’ve progressed, regressed or stayed the same since my last workout. It then goes deeper, as I look at sessions at the same time last year and shame myself that I am still not back to the level of fitness I was at then. Maybe it is just me.
Training Outdoors – Food For The Soul
Hоw mаnу оf us hаvе tаkеn a gуm mеmbеrѕhір and ѕіmрlу failed tо ѕtісk to thе rоutіnе? I know I have.
Exercising in a gym саn be demotivating and boring for thоѕе who lоvе оutdооrѕ, and therefore they find іt difficult tо stick tо thе rоutіnе ѕuggеѕtеd by gуm іnѕtruсtоrѕ.
Outdoors fіtnеѕѕ trаіnіng іѕ a good орtіоn to stay fit bу bаlаnсіng what уоu will nоrmаllу do іn a gуm with what уоu wоuld lіkе tо do outside.
Time to ditch BMI when tackling obesity?
This measure, which many of us will be familiar, uses weight and height to give a numerical value to state if someone is underweight, normal, overweight or obese. Even then, Keys suggested that that while the measure was not fully satisfactory, it was ‘at least as good as any other relative weight index as an indicator of relative obesity’. Despite these early reservations, it is still used as the principle method of diagnosing obesity.