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Hydration Matters: The Missing Link in Muscle Growth
As fitness professionals, we know the important role proper hydration plays in athletic performance. Water, a critical component in sustaining life itself, serves many vital purposes in nearly every function of the human body. However, many of us fail to recognize how…
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Exerkines: The Role of Exercise-Induced Signaling Molecules and Their Health Benefits
In 2000, scientists first discovered that muscle contractions release exercise-associated signaling molecules. Since then, many other such molecules have risen to the forefront of research. Exerkines, defined as signaling molecules released in response to acute/chronic exercise,…
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HRV-Based Coaching Concepts
Heart rate variability, or HRV, refers to the millisecond-level variation between individual heartbeats. Though subtle, each variation reflects the heart’s ability to respond to everyday situations. In this article, we will come to understand why HRV ranks among the body’s most…
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When Sleep Changes the Session
A client arrives for a planned strength session after a short night and asks whether training is still worthwhile. The temptation is to answer with a rule: push through, reduce everything, or send them home. Sleep loss and exercise performance, however, deserve a more careful…
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Soreness Is Feedback, Not a Growth Score
A client completes a new lower-body session and spends the next two days negotiating the stairs. Another completes a familiar session, feels relatively comfortable afterward, and wonders whether the workout was demanding enough. For personal trainers, delayed-onset muscle…
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The Art of Pranayama: Breathing Techniques for Health and Well-Being
Long before it evolved into a popular workout format, yoga served as a means to heal the body from within. The word “yoga” means “to yoke”, or unite, the body, mind and spirit. In the world of yoga practices, pranayama in Sanskrit loosely translates to control of breath, with…
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A Busy Week Still Deserves a Training Plan
Busy clients do not need to earn our permission to train for less than an hour. They need us to help them use the time they actually have. As personal trainers, we should be able to distinguish someone who needs a more demanding program from someone whose existing program has…
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Strength Training for Busy Adults
Time-efficient strength training begins with a programming question: what does this client need to accomplish with the time they can reliably protect? After exploring exercise snacks in the first article, we now turn to structured resistance training. Brief opportunities to move…
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Exercise Snacks During the Workday
Spend a day on Instagram, and you’ll no doubt encounter the term “exercise snacks.” Despite some leading practitioners, clinicians, and researchers extolling their many benefits, exercise snacks raise an appealing question: can a client accomplish something worthwhile in the…
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Recovery is Part of the Workout: Why More Isn’t Always Better
“I’m not sore, I didn’t work hard enough” “I need to add more weight” “No days off” We hear versions of this all the time. Progress is often associated with doing more: more weight, more volume, more sessions, more intensity. And while progressive overload is essential for…