Sports Performance

Speed, Agility and Quickness: SAQ for You

Ken Miller
Ken Miller |
Speed, agility, and quickness (SAQ) training is too often associated with sports, strength and conditioning, and other physically demanding activities. Upon closer observation, we realize we have missed the everyday events and activities that can greatly ...
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CES Sports Performance

Golfer’s Elbow vs. Tennis Elbow

National Academy of Sports Medicine
National Academy of Sports Medicine |
Introduction When individuals think about sports-related injuries, many of the injuries are associated with football, baseball, and basketball and usually to the regions of the ankle, knee, low-back, or shoulder.
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Fitness Assessments

Kinetic Chain Assessments Streamlined

Geoff Lecovin |
Corrective exercise - as an exercise discipline - uses a systematic process that involves identifying neuromusculoskeletal dysfunction, developing a plan of action and integrating a corrective strategy. This process requires knowledge and application of ...
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CPT Personal Trainer Marketing

Creating Your WOW: Factors for Building Your Brand

Fabio Comana
Fabio Comana |
You strive to acquire new customers and retain existing customers. Don’t let your efforts go to waste. Discover how you can create WOW experiences that will turn your customers into your very own loyal brand ambassadors. Read on for more, and try our ...
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CPT

Trainers Hiring Trainers?! Yes, We Do That!

Stacey Penney
Stacey Penney |
By Stacey Penney,MS, NASM-CPT, CES, PES, FNS Personal trainers need motivation to exercise, too. By working with another trainer, they can polish their instructional techniques and attain their own fitness goals.
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Fitness Nutrition

Whole Grains and Nutrition: There's More Than Meets The Eye!

Stacey Penney
Stacey Penney |
What’s all the interest in grains? Dietary guidelines recommend that at least half of the grains we eat are whole grains. Whole grains, gluten-free, enriched, refined, and pseudo-grains, what does it all mean to your diet and health? Here we’ll take a ...
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Sports Performance stretching

HOW IMPORTANT IS FLEXIBILITY FOR BASEBALL?

National Academy of Sports Medicine
National Academy of Sports Medicine |
How Important is Flexibility for Baseball? Whether it’s the majors, minors or recreational leagues, as Stretching Coaches know, flexibility is an important yet sometimes overlooked and unstructured aspect of baseball training. See how a well-planned ...
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CPT

Coaching-The Future of Training

Fabio Comana
Fabio Comana |
Coaching has become the buzzword in the personal training industry. See how behavior coaching can enhance a client’s potential for success, while also enhancing the relevance and value of the services fitness professionals provide. We’ll even share tools ...
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CES Group Fitness

THE VOICE OF POSTURE

Claudia Friedlander, DMus, NASM-CPT |
As a voice teacher, I was drawn to fitness to develop a sports-specific training protocol for singers. Corrective exercise techniques are often just as important as vocalises for helping my students to become the best singers they can be. Excellent ...
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Nutrition

Vitamin D- The Sunshine Vitamin

Geoff Lecovin |
Vitamin D, also known as the “sunshine vitamin,” was identified in the 17th century by Dr. Daniel Whistler and Professor Francis Glisson when they discovered the causative factors of rickets.
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