Brett Klika

These training secrets of Olympians will help you stay fit, from training quality over quantity and effective recovery strategies to the importance of coaching. Use these tips to become the best and most fit version of yourself.

These back to school wellness tips can help ease the transition from summer slacking to more structured schedules. Learn about mindfulness for students, as well as 3 activities kids can do to set themselves up for success.

Young adults are a vulnerable group when it comes to mental health. Learn how exercise can improve the mood, self-esteem and overall mental health of this population.

While the current pandemic continues to offer numerous challenges, families have an opportunity to go outside and move together. This blog offers several simple outdoor activities (along with video demonstrations) that provide a fun challenge for the entire family.

Whether you’re thinking about becoming a health and exercise professional or you’re in the early days/weeks/years of your career, ACE Pro Brett Klika shares 20 years of insight as a personal trainer that you can put into practice today.

For the first time in history, there’s data that suggests current adults may outlive their children. More than ever, we need passionate, educated mentors to help change the unfortunate course that has been set for our kids’ health. The next time you have an opportunity to impact a young life, consider these five steps to inspire them to take positive ownership over their healthy lifestyle habits.

Young athletes accustomed to attending practices, games, and other physical-activity outlets have been forced to take their training into their own hands despite having few resources to guide them. Check out these three “at home” workouts ideal for young athletes 5-12 years old. Each workout can be done in about 25 minutes and videos of the involved activities are included as well.

Learn about the important relationship between children’s sleep and their health, and the steps you can take to make nighttime rest a time to recharge happy, healthy young lives.

The early onset of diabetes during childhood, particularly type 2 diabetes, is becoming a growing healthcare concern in the United States. Learn about the risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes and how simple lifestyle-related changes can help turn the tide on the prevalence of this disease, among both children and adults.

To establish a strong foundation for personal and professional growth in the coming years, there are several essential actions you should considering taking during your first year in the field to help create the experience, knowledge and mindset needed to become a high-level fitness influencer. Learn how five of these “first steps” of career development can set you up for future success as a professional.

When it comes to kids and strength training, parents often want to know at what age their children should start lifting weights. Learn what questions to ask to determine whether or not your child is ready to start a resistance-training program.

When many people think of an obstacle course for kids, they envision a significant amount of equipment, space and setup. The good news is that with a few basic pieces of playground equipment and minimal space, an instructor can create a fun and effective obstacle course that challenges and engages children.

As we enter a new year, new opportunities arise for good habits to thrive and bad habits to die. This year, make the following three “power habits” part of your life to unleash your potential, maximize happiness and live extraordinary.

Check out these five fun winter activities for kids that require little to no space or equipment and are ideal for keeping kids moving when they’re indoors.

Modern daily life no longer requires a high level of physical exertion, but that doesn’t mean the human body doesn’t still need it. While just about any form of exercise is better than no exercise, follow these tips to ensure the exercise program you choose is guiding your body away from pain and injury and toward better health and fitness.

Being a parent is hard work and it’s important to use all the helpful tips you can. Check out these 5 simple ways to re-energize throughout the day.

If you’re a busy adult looking for a maximal return of fat loss, weight loss, strength and overall performance with a minimal time investment, here are some simple exercise switches you can make to pump up your exercise portfolio and get awesome results.

Are you walking around in a constant state of stress? Relief could be as close as your breath. In as little as a few minutes a day at home, at the office or anywhere else stress finds you, learn how you can put a little brainwork into your breathing and experience the benefits.

The fitness and rehab fields have seen a boost in the popularity of infant movement patterns. The crawl pattern, in particular, offers a variety of benefits for nearly every part of the body. Read on to learn how moving like a baby can offer big-time results for adults.

Almost any resistance-training program will be effective in the short-term for modestly decreasing body fat (assuming proper nutrition is observed). For a program to continually be effective, however, it’s important to understand how to modify the three essential training variables that impact fat loss.

Do personal trainers need six-pack abs and ultra-lean physiques to demonstrate their mastery of healthy living? As is the case with so many things in life, the answer is more nuanced than a simple yes or no. ACE Pro Brett Klika explains how health and fitness professionals can establish themselves as experts in their communities and appeal to those clients who are more concerned about qualifications and results than they are with aesthetics.

Research shows that motivation has less to do with gimmicks and genetics, and far more to do with an ability to tie your values and sense of purpose to action. If you struggle with motivation in some aspect of your life, consider the following tips and insights to aid in linking your inner most beliefs and values with consistent action.

Is it a struggle to get your kids off the couch and moving? Have they forgotten how to play without an electronic device in their hands? ACE Pro Brett Klika explains how can you inspire “unmotivated” children to make changes to their health-related habits using three strategies derived from both research and his nearly 20 years of working with kids of all physical abilities and levels of motivation.

Your body is a perpetual motion machine that is constantly adapting to the demands you place on it. Unfortunately, modern life has allocated our daytime hours to sitting in cars, on couches and in front of computers, which has left many of us hunched over and in constant. Here are five stretches you can use throughout your day to offset inactivity and improve your health, happiness and performance in life.

For boot campers, the experience they desire is camaraderie, physical challenge and fun, and the warm-up is the time to set the physiological and psychological tone for this experience. Brett Klika offers three simple ways to make boot-camp warm-ups not only effective and efficient, but also fun.

Are you having a hard time finding new clients? ACE Pro Brett Klika shares three simple, tried-and-true strategies for getting new clients within one week’s time.

More than 26 million Americans experience frequent back pain. To keep yourself off the list of frequent sufferers, it’s important to first understand where back pain comes from so you can apply some simple strategies—and effective stretches—to help keep the pain at bay.

While good old-fashioned sit-ups and crunches focus directly on the abdominal muscles, progressing knowledge of anatomy and biomechanics has provided some even better exercise options to not only develop the abdominal muscles, but also improve strength and structure. Here are three exercises that will strengthen the abs so you can look, feel and move better every day.

The number of kids who get adequate amounts of daily physical activity is at a historically low rate. Unfortunately, reduced activity during school hours combined with increasingly busy and plugged-in lives means that parents, teachers and educators need to work harder than ever to make sure kids are moving their bodies and reaping the benefits of physical activity. Here are the top 10 reasons why helping kids become active once again is worth the effort.

Being a health and fitness professional can be incredibly rewarding, but it doesn’t come without its challenges. If you are determined to rise and stay at the top of your field, ACE Certified Pro Brett Klika has some important advice for developing the traits of those who are considered the health and fitness industry’s top mentors and leaders.

If you’re tired of carrying around a blanket of body fat, don’t despair. Educate yourself instead. ACE Pro Brett Klika explains that by understanding the unique challenges men face with fat loss and applying the right interventions to create lasting change, you can shed that blanket of body fat forever and move toward greater health and well-being that lasts a lifetime.

Understand the unique elements of women’s physiology that contribute to fat loss and get four useful tips for fat loss for women in this post from ACE Fitness.

For decades, research has suggested that frequent exposure to stress is inherently bad, but recent studies suggest that stress in and of itself may not be the monster we’ve made it out to be. ACE Pro Brett Klika offers some easy and effective strategies for decreasing the negative effects of stress on your life.

The list of things we should be doing every day to feel and move better is getting longer every day, but who has the time? ACE Pro Brett Klika offers up a simple “toolkit,” with which you can build a powerful physiological and psychological engine in only a few minutes each day. Perform these eight following exercises in succession each morning, or whenever you need a “feel good” pick-me-up.

The highest performers in the world know that to ensure safety, efficiency and continued effectiveness of a training program, the “yin” of high-intensity training needs to be paired with the “yang” of rest, recovery and “easy” training. Learn how to balance various intensities to maximize performance gains and minimize injury risk, as well as eight ways for integrating strategic “easy” exercise into your clients’ programs.

With so much conflicting information out there, it can be a challenge to separate fact from fiction when it comes to reducing fat and losing weight. ACE Pro Brett Klika examines three particularly common and pervasive myths that everyone needs to stop believing now.

To many, the New Year means a clean slate. A reset. A fresh start to living the life we want to live. Here are five ways to reset and revitalize your body, heart, mind and soul for your mission to connect with your best self.

With more than 20 years as a health and fitness professional, Brett Klika knows a thing or two about building a career and creating success in the fitness industry. Drawing on his own experience and that of countless others in the industry, Klika shares his career roadmap for creating a long and successful career in fitness.

Thinking about those New Year’s resolutions? Here are six of the most common debilitating “old” beliefs you may try to bring into the New Year, and how you can retrain our mind, body, and soul to overcome them.

There’s no getting around it—nearly 80% of American children are not meeting the minimum guidelines for physical activity each day. So, what’s a parent or educator to do? Youth expert Brett Klicka argues that what takes place in our own homes—and the examples parents set for their kids—is the most important factor in raising healthy, active kids.