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Spotlight Trainer
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Brian Thompson
In the year 2000, I was awarded a full scholarship to play inside linebacker at Texas A&M University. My first season with the Aggies was filled with nothing but injuries and disappointments, but my dedication to the game never went away. I kept on saying to myself, “I will make it if I keep pushing through.” My college football career tragically ended when I broke my lower back while training for the 2001 Galleryfurniture.com Bowl.
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Ask the Trainer: Bulging Veins
- ISSA’s Patrick Gamboa on Bulging "Roadmap" Veins
Question: "Can anybody tell me why some people have bulging veins when they work out and others have no visible changes in their veins at all? All the pro-bodybuilders have huge veins that are always visible..."
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Helping Your Clients Adhere to a Lifelong Exercise Habit — Part 1 of 4
- Hervé Bensabat
Give your clients the gift of a lifetime. Teach them the true value of robust health. Impart the notion that physical activity is a lifelong endeavour, and inspire them to truly live the fitness lifestyle. It doesn't cost a dime. And it won't take you anymore time than you're already awarding them...
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Business Building Tips to Strengthen your Client Base
- Drew Stevens
Today’s fitness professional requires techniques that help to accentuate and differentiate from others, especially in our recent economic times. Potential clients will find numerous ways to avoid you. In a business culture where social networks proliferate, the only true network is that built between a client and trainer. Clients enjoy the candor and the knowledge that is shared from a professional. To this end, there are several methods that assist selling professionals.
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| SMART TRAINING, PERIOD...ization! |
- Cameron Baker
Can any of you remember a time when Russian athletics were dominating the world of Olympic and professional sports and their finest athletes seemed at times supernatural? For over three decades, Russian athletes spent the majority of their time standing on the winner’s podium gazing down on the rest of the world’s finest competitors and elite athletes. Yes, there were some Eastern Bloc women who resembled NFL linebackers, and that was not likely natural, but the true explanation is ultimately something called “periodization.”
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| Sales Prospecting for Personal Trainers |
- Jim Labadie
If you’re struggling to close sales as a personal trainer it may be because you’re missing a step. You may have missed the crucial step of “prospecting.” In other words, you may not be closing sales because the person you are meeting with is not really a viable prospective candidate for personal training. Or it may be because the prospect was unaware what was going to happen during your meeting.
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| Editor's Corner |
As we near the end of the first quarter of 2008, those New Year resolutions many of us made are now an unfortunate distant memory. While many of us have seen reports on the negative effect of yo-yo dieting, the consequences of yo-yo exercise may be also more significant than we had believed.
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