Most of us, at some point in our careers, will have had a client that’s experienced persistent, niggling tendon pain. The patellar tendon that flares on the stairs, the Achilles that is stiff for the first ten minutes of every run, the shoulder that complains on the overhead press. The…
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Most of us have a client whose blood pressure sits a little higher than they would like. Maybe their GP has had a quiet word. Maybe they are on medication and want to do something themselves alongside it. The usual advice is to walk more and eat better, which is…
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Ask five trainers how long a client should hold a static stretch and you will get five different answers. Ten seconds. Thirty. A minute. As long as it takes. The advice gets handed down between coaches and gym classes without much interrogation, and the underlying research has moved on a…
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Every PT has had the experience of a client signs up motivated, trains brilliantly for three or four weeks and then quietly drifts away. They don’t cancel, they don’t complain, they just stop showing up. By month two the Tuesday slot you held for them belongs to someone else and…
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Mix Strength and Cardio Without Losing You will have had this conversation more than once. A client wants to be stronger but also wants to run a half marathon, or wants to keep cycling at the weekend but also wants to build noticeable muscle, or wants to do CrossFit two…
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Walk into most gyms at 6am and you’ll spot a group of clients in their forties and fifties who’ve been showing up diligently for years. Many of them have been told, somewhere along the way, that this is the life stage where yoga, Pilates or low-impact cardio should take centre…
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Most of us can build a solid programme and write a nutrition plan that makes sense for the client sitting in front of us. The harder question, and the one that comes up more and more the longer you coach, is what do you do when that client knows exactly…
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For years, conversations about heart health in fitness have leaned heavily towards cardio workouts. Step counts, heart rate zones, weekly mileage & aerobic capacity are all terms you will have heard when discussing the cardiovascular system. Strength training on the other hand, often sits to one side, framed as something…
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Getting people to start exercising is rarely the hardest part of the job. Getting them to keep going is where most us as fitness professionals feel the strain. Clients sign up with good intentions. They want to feel better, move better and see progress. Then life intervenes. Energy dips. Confidence…
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Choosing a career in health and fitness can be exciting and rewarding. Many people ask if personal training makes sense as a professional path. This article walks through what personal trainers do, how the industry looks in the UK, what trainers can expect to earn and where this career can…
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