Category: Women
Kids Can Beat Social Anxiety and Build Confidence with Personal Training What is social anxiety? Social anxiety is a perception that there is something embarrassing and deficient about us, and, unless we work hard to conceal or hide it, it will be revealed and we will be judged or rejected for it. Ellen Hendriksen, PhD defines social anxiety as “self-consciousness on steroids”. We look in the [...]
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Strength Training Helps Women Against PCOS, Osteoporosis & Menopause & For Overall Health There’s no reason why everybody shouldn’t strength train! The American College of Sports Medicine doesn’t differentiate between sexes in their strength training recommendation. ACSM and CDC recommendations state that: “Every adult should perform activities that maintain or increase muscular strength and endurance for a minimum of two days per week.” The following is an excerpt [...]
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Benefits of A Personal Trainer for Injury Rehabilitation When someone has an injury, their physical therapist devises a treatment plan which can include working with a personal trainer to help them properly follow through with the physical therapist's exercise recommendations. Personal trainer develops the exercise plan for client and with careful supervision and proper physical assistance ensures that the client is exercising correctly [...]
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How should women train in the gym? Even after almost a decade of practice as a fitness professional, one common phenomenon I still see in the gyms is the avoidance of ‘genuine’ weight training by women. By genuine I mean structured weight training focused on compound movements and progressive overloading. The dogma that still prevails around is that lifting heavy will make [...]
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