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Successful training programs address weaknesses head on. They are sometimes uncomfortable for the person being trained, but the potential gains are worth the investment.

At the end of the day, you’re just talking to people. You give instructions, you demonstrate exercises, you listen, you laugh, you guide with body language, you give verbal cues, you give some high-fives and then you go home. A great personal trainer is a great communicator.

There are many routes to becoming a fitness trainer. One route is to not be certified in anything and just wing it. The other is to get certified and then start training people. Then you could also go on and get a college degree in Exercise Science.

Usually this is the problem of a man who wants to build muscle but doesn’t…

The average person loses muscle mass with age. There are many reasons for this and in looking at each of those reasons, we can take small but deliberate steps to counter each of them. Everyone ages so this applies to you too.

You can look at whatever projection model you want on the fitness industry. Some say it is going down, some say we’ve hardly seen the start of it. My answer to this question is no. Personally, I have all the job security I could ever want. Here is my statement on the profession as a whole and why this role will always be of use to society.

You’ve worked out. You’re feeling it after a day or so and the next workout (for one reason or another) has you doing more work on that same muscle group. Should you do it?

If you’re a fitness trainer, you’ve run into this problem before. I was overwhelmed the…

I never would have done this if I didn’t work at a gym. I was just starting out as a trainer and was in touch with a small group of mountaineers. They invited me, I accepted. This is my story.

Rock climbing takes an odd sort of strength. I spent a lot of time at…