Welcome to this month’s edition of “Social Media for Fitness Professionals”! Each month, I bring you three of the latest developments in the world of online social media, explain what each new development means for you as a fitness professional, and tell you how to take advantage of ...read more

Recently I was asked to give some advice on how to train clients who can’t seem to stay self-motivated. This always becomes a problem this time of year as people start to detour from their new year’s resolutions. After all, anyone can do something for a few weeks when ...read more

If you lived through the 90s, you probably enjoyed a sarcastic chuckle from that 7-minute abs skit in the movie There’s Something About Mary:

Jokes are one thing. It gets a lot more serious when you, as a fitness professional, see books and DVDs promising fast results in only 7 minutes ...read more

Ask any fitness professional and they will tell you that nutrition is an important component of a complete fitness program. Nutrition is also the one aspect of their program that our clients have to face without us, and is a service that we have to refer out unless we are ...read more

Starting out in fitness, my original intent was to work as a personal trainer. However, early on I became aware of the emerging profession of strength and conditioning coaching. Since I had played college football and had always been interested in sports, it seemed like the perfect job for ...read more