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November 5, 2025
Why Your 20s Workout Doesn’t Work Anymore (and the Simple Tweak That Will)
Let’s be honest. As we get older, our priorities and responsibilities change. The way we approached fitness in our 20s usually doesn’t stick in our -
October 27, 2025
Trainerize: The Future of Personal Training
The fitness industry is infamous for its notoriously quick pace of innovation. Jazzercise took the industry by storm in the ’80s; Richard Simmons caught the -
August 20, 2025
Lost in Translation: Coaching & Cueing
Communication is one of the more challenging aspects that people struggle with. The best thing about fitness is the unique language that develops through it. -
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 -
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 -
July 8, 2025
The Warm Up Mindset: Rethinking Preparation, Not Reinventing It
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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