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  • August 11, 2025

    Finding Your Fitness: A Guide for Life
    View this post on Instagram A post shared by BC Personal Training Institute (@bcpti) The journey of fitness often starts with grand ambitions; a new
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  • August 1, 2025

    Why Every Trainer Should Know the 1.5 Stance
    Great coaching isn’t about flashy exercises; it’s about knowing when to use the right variation. The 1.5 stance might not look fancy, but it’s one
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    July 8, 2025

    The Warm Up Mindset: Rethinking Preparation, Not Reinventing It
    One of the biggest challenges in fitness is sorting through all the information to find what actually works. We hear we should warm up, but
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  • October 30, 2024

    Decoding Deadlift Variations: What’s Better?
    The pursuit of optimization has instilled a curiosity for asking, “What is the best…” The best answer for us is…it depends. Context matters when giving
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  • August 27, 2024

    Building & Maintaining Your Business as a New Personal Trainer
    You got through the 1st major hurdle got yourself certified as a personal trainer. The next step is to become successful, but that begs the
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  • August 19, 2024

    Why NASM is the RIGHT Personal Training Certification
    You get the itch to help others through a career in fitness. You start to do your research only to feel overwhelmed with the information
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  • July 29, 2024

    Training CORE beyond Abs: Front to Back
    Here we have a guest blog post by Samson Back, one of Semiahmoo Fitness World’s finest trainer is giving us insight into understanding training core.
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  • July 10, 2024

    What’s Next? Beyond Personal Training Certification and CECs
    You took that step and got your personal training certification. Now you’re wondering what’s next? One of the greatest benefits of personal training is the
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  • June 26, 2024

    Overcoming Imposter Syndrome as a Personal Trainer
    Do you ever feel like a fraud or an imposter? Imposter syndrome is a common experience, often amplified by not understanding its origins. For many
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