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What skills you need as a personal trainer in 2019?
A personal trainer can work with people of any age. They can specialise in one or all of the following: Strength conditioning, Cardiovascular exercise, The physiology of muscles (including stretching), Leading group fitness classes, Motivation, and Physical fitness. These skills can all be learned through a specialised certification programme which…
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What personal training course should you consider?
Congratulations! You’ve take the first step to becoming a world-class personal trainer by deciding that you want to study personal training. Making the decision that you want to pursue fitness as your career, and ditch the nine-to-five slog of being cooped up in an office and behind the desk, is…
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Are you cut out to be a personal trainer?
Being a personal trainer is not like any other job. It’s a calling as opposed to just a regular nine-to-five job. The hours are long. You’ll need to get up at insanely early hours of the morning to be able to help a client who wants to train at 5.30am…
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What a personal trainer needs to know about first aid
Popular first aid related questions among personal trainers are: Do I need to be qualified in first aid? Can I work in the fitness industry without a first aid qualification? Because there’s some confusion over the answers to these questions, we’ve created a guide to first aid for personal trainers.…
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What it takes to be South Africa’s top personal trainer
Being a top personal trainer in South Africa (SA) is an extremely sought-after profession. Not only do they earn a lot of money and can, effectively, write their own pay checks they can work when it suits them. However, enjoying the perks of being a personal trainer – and being…
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What Is a Cardio-Respiratory Fitness Assessment?
A cardio-respiratory fitness assessment involves determining how efficiently an athlete’s cardio-respiratory system functions and is a good indicator of how physically fit they are. This assessment is all about endurance, or how well your heart, lungs and muscles work in conjunction while exercising over a specific time period. Let’s take…
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Common Muscle Injuries a Personal Trainer Needs to Know About
Muscle injuries are all too common in gyms and on sports pitches across the planet. Every single athlete has had to deal with their fair share of these, and they almost always set an athlete back due to recovery time. Luckily, if personal trainers are able to identify muscle injuries…
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How to Know When a Personal Training Client Has Reached Their Limits
If you’re a personal trainer, you’re more than likely also a highly motivated and motivational person. We are often of the impression that if we can bust through the pain barriers, our personal training clients can too. Unfortunately, not all clients are made equal. They have varying motivational levels, varying…
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How do you do Chaturanga Dandasana in yoga?
The word Chaturanga means four-limb-staff-pose, which is a low plank. When correctly done in this yoga pose the body should resemble a rod or staff with the spine in one straight line. You have to be like a coffee table, low and sturdy. Imagine balancing teacups on different parts of…
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How Do You Carry Out a Fitness Assessment?
Performing a fitness assessment as a personal trainer is a critical first step when starting out with a new client. This involves a series of exercises and assessments to ascertain a client’s overall health and physical status. The longer the time since a client has engaged in physical activity, the…
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How to do a cable crunch
This is an extremely effective exercise for your abs – but only if you’re doing it correctly. Here’s how to make sure you are. Essentially, you want to work the rectus abdominis (that sought-after six pack). To execute a cable crunch correctly, you need to consider the following three things.…
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