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From Successful Trainer to Gym Owner—9 Steps to Open Your First Facility: Part 3
October 29, 2018by David Crump, NSCA-CPT
In the final stage of the gym opening process everything starts to feel very real. Once a location has been chosen, the next steps are to negotiate and sign a lease, create an opening timeline, and plan the grand opening event for the facility.
Personal trainers Organization and Administration Professional Development
From Successful Trainer to Gym Owner—9 Steps to Open Your First Facility: Part 2
August 24, 2018by David Crump
Before opening a facility, fitness professionals should perform the proper due diligence of researching and obtaining all the required documents to legally operate in a given municipality, learn the different types of commercial property, and build an equipment list that is in alignment with their business model.
Personal trainers Organization and Administration Professional Development
Developing an Educational Culture
April 9, 2018by David S. Otey, CSCS, NSCA-CPT
Personal trainers and strength and conditioning coaches around the world are the frontline and display of any fitness facility. Common issues, such as sales techniques and member interaction/experience, can be qualities that are developed over time through employee education.
Personal trainers Organization and Administration
Top 5 Performance Enhancers for Fitness
May 7, 2018by Michael Bracko, EdD, CSCS
“Five basic training techniques have been producing great results for our clients,” says Mike Bracko in this session from the 2015 NSCA Personal Trainers Conference. Learn how you can help your clients add these five easy performance enhancers to their lives.
Personal trainers Exercise Technique Program design
5 Researched Ways to Become a Fat Burning Beast
August 27, 2018by Michael A. Nelson PhD, CSCS
Learn how to increase the body’s use of fat as a fuel without compromising the use of carbohydrates for higher-intensity training. Mike Nelson, PhD, explains how combining specific nutrition and exercise together affects the use of fat as a fuel, in this session from the NSCA’s 2017 Personal Trainers Conference.
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7 Secret Weapons for Fitness Professionals’ Sales Success
May 9, 2018by Robert Lewis Jr., MS, CSCS
The “7 Secret Weapons to Sales Success” were developed through interviewing some of the most successful personal trainers in the country, capturing the most relevant concepts from over a dozen sales books, and, most importantly, applying these concepts in the field with actual trainers. In this session from the 2015 NSCA Personal Trainers Conference, Robert Lewis Jr. empowers fitness professionals to take their career to new heights.
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Top 20 Mobility and Warm-Up Exercises
August 24, 2018by Nick Tumminello, NSCA-CPT
In this hands-on lecture from the NSCA's 2014 Personal Training Conference, Nick Tumminello demonstrates his Top 20 mobility and activation exercises and explains why they are in his toolbox. Nick talks about how it is important for trainers to sort through the hundreds of available exercises to better serve their clients.
Personal trainers Exercise Technique Program design
How to be an Evidence-Based Fitness Professional
May 20, 2019by Keith Chittenden, MS, CSCS,*D, TSAC-F,*D
This article describes how introduction of evidence-based practices requires today’s fitness professional to raise the bar of his or her education and analytical experience by actively and consistently using techniques of research in order to perform their job as a fitness professional.
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Sedentariness, Deconditioning, and Practical Considerations for Personal Trainers
January 28, 2019by Gary S. Stebbing, CSCS
This article summarizes current populations and descriptions of sedentariness and deconditioning, and offers practical considerations for personal trainers working with these behaviors.
Personal trainers Program design Client Consultation|Assessment
How Social Media Affects the Legal Rights of Employees
April 6, 2018by LeMar Moore
While social media can serve as an efficient business tool, it can also complicate the legal rights of the entrepreneurs who use them. This article focuses on three specific—and perhaps surprising—ways in which social media can alter the employment rights of fitness professionals and the gyms they work for.
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