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Your Client Stopped Getting Good Results. Now What?

A five-step plan to help every client succeed (even the toughest ones).

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The Number-One Skill Your Clients Need to Succeed

Self-regulation gives them the tools to change their behaviors, even when you’re not there to remind them.

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A Fitness Pro’s Guide to Sexual Harassment

With the industry’s first high-profile incident, it’s long past time to discuss exactly where the lines are between acceptable and unacceptable actions and remarks.

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How to Make Sure You Aren’t One of the Bad Trainers Ruining Our Profession

Fitness pros have to stop abusing the power they have over their clients. Here are better ways to serve those clients, and improve the industry in the process.

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How to Explain Weight Fluctuations to Your Clients

When a client freaks out over three pounds she gained overnight, or celebrates five pounds she lost for no obvious reason, use this handy guide to help make sense of it.

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What Do You Do with a Client Who Wants Too Much, Too Soon?

The highly motivated client presents a challenge we’re rarely prepared for. Here’s how to help that client succeed before burnout or injury derail your program.

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A Letter to My Younger Self: Five Lessons from 10 Years of Personal Training

How do you handle a toxic client? Avoid burnout? Get the right kind of attention? After 17,000 coaching hours, here’s what one trainer wishes he could’ve known when he started out.

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How to Help a Client Who Wants to Gain Weight

It’s not just the opposite of losing weight. To build solid muscle, you need a solid plan, a lot of patience, and occasional reminders to be careful what you wish for.

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10 Tips for Training Clients in Recovery

Advice and affirmations that work for most clients may have the opposite effect on a recovering alcoholic or addict. Here’s what you need to understand, from someone who’s been there.

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What Are the Rules for Training Older Clients?

Are there exercises you should never do? Equipment you should never use? Here’s how to sort through conflicting views to find the best training practices for your clients.

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