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How do age and education affect physical activity? Think about how you’ve been influenced by these things and how that’s affected your physical activity. When you think about our own [...]

  As a personal trainer fortunately, fairly simple motivational interviewing communication strategies can be effective in helping client’s feel supported, understood, and comfortable in [...]

Have you ever been in a conversation with a client thinking you knew exactly where it was going? Instead of listening did you launch into giving a bunch of information only to find out that was [...]

On Monday I talked about the psychological benefits of exercise. As a personal trainer it’s important that you understand these because besides losing weight and getting stronger these are [...]

Supporting people who are new to exercise is not as much about the exercise as it is the relationship, the support and how you communicate with your client. Part of that relationship, support and [...]

Addiction and the brain Compulsive behaviors like compulsive shopping, pathological lying, shoplifting, gambling, overeating, over exercising or obsessions with sex can be trigger by genetic [...]

Motivation is the direction and intensity with which someone does something. If athletes and exercisers don’t have direction and intensity than the intention to follow through won’t [...]

Make mental training an implicit part of your program. Mental training if used has always been in addition to physical training; an explicit part of being an athlete or an exerciser. In my work I [...]