CPT Workout Plans

Exercise Progressions and Regressions: How To's of Scaling Movement

Ken Miller
Ken Miller |
“You need good form,” or “technique is everything” are just a couple of the staple statements you hear fitness professionals and strength coaches say. This is what personal trainers are known and hired for, making sure that the client is using good ...
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CPT Personal Trainer Marketing

Creating a Customer Persona for Your Fitness Business: Reaching the Avatar

Josh Elsesser
Josh Elsesser |
Running a fitness business is a unique venture. Whether it’s a personal training company, a fitness studio, boot camp or a full-service gym, there are aspects to running a business in the fitness industry that are specific to the fitness industry. Some ...
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CPT Fitness Weight Loss

New Year’s Resolutions: If Not Weight Loss, Then What?

Amanda Boyer, MS, RDN, CD, NASM-CPT |
Twenty nineteen is upon us and New Year’s resolutions are on many people’s mind. It is common that goals are oriented around body shape or weight loss, which we have found can sometimes cause more harm than good. If you want to practice from a Health At ...
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CPT

Hip Impingement Unhinged: Mobilizing the Hamstrings and Pelvis

Kyle Stull
Kyle Stull |
Personal trainers will likely encounter a client with hip impingement as a training concern. Improve your client’s hip mobility with these stretching and strengthening techniques, plus cueing advice for pelvic positioning.
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CES CPT

The Problem with the Hamstring Problem

Kyle Stull
Kyle Stull |
Hamstrings are arguably one of the most talked about muscle groups, as well as the most researched, stretched, and injured. While there is a wealth of information about hamstring injury prevention and treatment, hamstring injuries are still
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CPT Sports Performance

Deceleration Training: Better Brakes or Better Engine?

Ken Miller
Ken Miller |
You have to be able to start, stop and control the motion - that's why deceleration training is a vital component of fitness programming and any strength and conditioning program.
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CPT

Stronger: Post Breast Cancer Exercise

Scott Keppel |
While we’ve all heard that exercise is an important element of breast cancer prevention, it is also beneficial during and after treatment. Read more to see how this NASM Certified Personal Trainer was touched by a very special client on this family ...
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CPT Sports Performance Joint Health

Mobility and Stability: Joint Functions When We Move

Marty Miller, ATC, DHSC, NASM-CPT, CES, PES, Master Instructor |
Human movement is an amazing orchestra of muscle contractions controlled by the central nervous system to create joint actions to accomplish specific tasks. The motor tasks can be as simple as raising a glass of water or as dynamic as an explosive golf ...
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CPT Fitness

Your Mission Statement: What is it, why you need it, and how to create it.

Josh Elsesser
Josh Elsesser |
Why do you do what you do? Who are you trying to help? What specifically are you going to do to help them? These are some of the questions that you’ll need to answer to have a clear
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CPT Group Fitness Workout Plans

Embracing the Group Effect

Ingrid Owen |
As group fitness instructors (and hybrid trainers), we know that members join our facilities for various reasons, with the primary reason to improve their fitness and health. Clearly the simplicity of that motivation does not mean it's easy to meet or ...
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