Having been in the fitness industry for 20 years, he first owned a personal training studio that offered both personal training and small group training, and then he became a CrossFit affiliate in 2012.

By understanding a few solid principles fitness coaches can take the guesswork out of program design. Here are four ways you can begin to write better exercise programs today.

Inside the Strength Continuum, absolute strength training forms the foundation by which the other aspects of the Strength Continuum (strength speed, speed strength, and absolute speed) are honed and developed. Absolute strength training, as the name implies, helps develop athletes and clients ability to produce power by increasing their overall strength through load based and resistance training. The ability to produce power is a prerequisite for working within the other three aspects of the Strength Continuum. It’s worth noting, however, that this is primarily an athletic benefit of training absolute strength meant for competitive athletes. Most clients won’t need to touch or even train the other aspects of the Strength Continuum for daily life. So what do they get out of it?

After 10 years of working as a personal trainer, Bobby Scott knew there was a better way: A better way of helping clients with their health and fitness, and a better way to provide job satisfaction for the coach.

The word ‘resilient’ is often used to describe individuals who overcome tough situations with surprising grace. When applied to competitive fitness, we often think of elite athletes who bounce back from defeat or setback even stronger than they were before. However, the concept of how to become resilient is still widely misunderstood. Many believe it to be the byproduct of conscious decision making in the moment rather than a product of adherence to a specific lifestyle. In actuality, Those that we describe as ‘resilient’ become that way because their lifestyle and habits influence the way they manage stress and perceive the world around them.

“I have a sports science background, so coming from a rehab place where I wanted to fix people, it just wasn’t happening in a group class,” she said of her experience owning and running a CrossFit gym in Pennsylvania. 

The fitness coaching industry is massive and very competitive. Very few are able to be able to work full time as a professional coach, even fewer can make a decent living doing it. Those that are able to earn a living working their passion can be universally identified by five unique qualities that guarantee their long term success.

The better question though is what “should” you expect to make depending on the type of personal trainer job and compensation structure you sign up for. That is what we’ll explore in this article. The layout of the article is:

If you’re a fitness or health nut, chances are high that you’ve used or are using protein powder to build muscle and for recovery purposes. Protein powder has become so prevalent outside of gyms that it’s even being used to replace meals due its appeal as a generic health supplement. And why not?

There’s no denying that Metabolic Conditioning pieces produce a very strong metabolic response. After all, that is exactly why they are named as such. Much of this has to do with the sheer intensity demanded by these particular workouts. Despite the perception that only intensity can lead to an effective metabolic response, lower intensity aerobic weight training sessions may create more favorable responses for a client’s goals. Download our guide to designing Metcons for health and longevity here.

“Clients here now have the opportunity to do maintenance or preventive work (as well as individual program design). They can do everything in-house and all of us work together and communicate together,” said Jemionek, who has two other CCP coaches working for her, as well. 

Soon, Salihin realized something was missing: He didn’t feel he and his coaches were on the same page in terms of how they approached their clients, and he knew there was a better way to assess clients more effectively.

With the CrossFit Open finally over, many CrossFit athletes out there are all asking the same question: What should I do next? The answer they all inevitably reach is that they should continue to grind away with WOD’s (Workout of the Day) until the next CrossFit Open, with the hope that such zealotry will lead to improve performance.

“I was teaching group classes, and I didn’t like putting people through movements and workouts that didn’t make sense for them,” said the 41-year-old who lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The concept of protein deloads came about because athletes that were training very hard were breaking down a lot of muscle and to keep up were, in turn, consuming mass quantities of protein. However, consuming this much protein can produce negative side effects such as food aversions, joint pain, mood issues, and adrenal function problems. A potential solution? A protein deload.

Inaki Rosa has always had a strong business sense, along with a desire to teach. It wasn’t long until Inaki was introduced to the functional fitness world and began to attend Crossfit classes in his friend’s backyard in 2009. Inaki immediately fell in love and became obsessed with mixing his background of competitive gymnastics and passion for teaching. Being the businessman he was, it wasn’t long before he opened his own affiliate gym behind one of his retail stores.

Clients will stick around, not when they’re dependent on their coach, but when they’re receiving a high value. And they will perceive the value they’re receiving to be high when they’re getting results—be it fitness results, body composition results, mental health results, lifestyle results, etc.