Professional Development & Client Interaction

  • April 22, 2023

    Likeability, Trust, & Rapport: Keys to Client / Trainer Success
    Personal training as an industry continues to grow and evolve beyond the physical benefits as we recognize the mental health components. What we see is
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  • April 12, 2023

    7 Study Tips for NASM’s Personal Trainer Certification
    Here are 7 tips that you can utilize to set yourself up for success while studying for the National Academy of Sports Medicine Certified Personal
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  • March 11, 2022

    How does the TFM Course Make You Better at Programming?
    Recovery is an essential tool and separates elite trainers from average. The TFM course includes the best practices from Fascial Stretch Therapy, Muscle Activation Techniques,
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  • January 18, 2022

    TFM – An Intro to Therapeutic Fascial Mobility
    Therapeutic Fascial Mobility (TFM) is a tool we can use as trainers to impact the state of a client’s nervous system, improve flexibility and add
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  • November 24, 2021

    Beyond the Session – Client Support
    Although I have only been in the fitness industry for about two years, it is evident that client needs are constantly evolving. Although client needs
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  • August 27, 2021

    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
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  • August 27, 2021

    Squat Variations for New Clients: by Courtney Parson
    Our clients know how to sit on a chair. They do it every day. No matter their age, their lifestyle, their occupation, your clients squat.
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  • June 18, 2021

    The BCPTI Practicum – a Review
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  • June 3, 2021

    Tools and Lenses – an Instructor Spotlight by Dr. Benjamin J. Stevens
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  • April 29, 2021

    Learning from a Pandemic
    We are THRILLED to be welcoming a new instructor to the team – BCPTI graduate Kim Tasin! She completed our program in 2019 and has
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  • March 30, 2021

    Reflecting On A Pandemic Year – Josh
    As I reflect and write this article, it has been a full 365 days since COVID-based restrictions shut doors in most communities. Initially, it was a fearful
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  • December 30, 2020

    Bridging the Pain Gap
    The fitness industry has done an excellent job of teaching fitness professionals about the role of muscles, joints and the nervous system in movement. We’ve
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