Megan Senger

Have you ever suspected that one of your clients has an eating disorder, takes questionable supplements for weight loss or gain or dangerously overtrains? Should you say something to him or her? In this article we reveal the signs of some specific body image–related health concerns that may be especially evident in an exercise environment and offer important tips on how to handle difficult client conversations related to these topics.

If you’ve been teaching the same group-ex classes for a while, you may be feeling a little stuck, perhaps a little stale. And if you feel this way, chances are your participants might be feeling it as well! To help you get out of a teaching rut, give these 10 tips from fellow group fitness pros a try.

You may be used to delivering completely “personal” one-on-one training, but many believe that multi-client, “personalized” group training is where the industry is going. Read on to discover exercise strategies that specifically support a culture of camaraderie during multi-client workouts, and how this will keep clients coming back for more.

Are the best days of boot camp behind us? Yes, say many experts, with market saturation and lack of quality instruction among the reasons cited for its decline. Here’s an overview of the decline—and future forms—of this trend, and how savvy fitness pros can fill the void with small- and large-group trainings and profit from the evolution of boot camps.

Developing a short-term weight-loss or nutrition program—such as a 10-week lifestyle reboot or a 4-week diet detox—can be an effective way to expand your business and add an important revenue stream. Learn how to improve trainee results, retention and your bottom line, all while staying within your scope of practice as a fitness professional.

Do you lead small- or large-group training sessions? With so many different fitness levels to accommodate, strategic regressions and progressions must be a mainstay of your toolkit. Learn how to avoid progressing clients too quickly, and important tips for focusing on safety and intelligent programming so you can deliver variety and intensity to every client you instruct.

Are the best days of boot camp behind us? Yes, say many experts, with market saturation and lack of quality instruction among the reasons cited for its decline. Here’s an overview of the decline—and future forms—of this trend, and how savvy fitness pros can fill the void with small- and large-group trainings and profit from the evolution of boot camps.

The world is changing fast and fitness professionals need to stay alert and be ready to adapt to those changes if they are going to be—and stay—successful. If your personal-training sales systems are the business equivalent of legwarmers and leotards, it’s time to step into the future and start training new-school. Here are seven ways to start reinventing your fitness business today.

Have you ever considered sharing your clients with another trainer? Learn why this increasingly common practice may not only be better for your clients, but could increase your income and help you achieve a better work-life balance as well.

Stress and exhaustion are day-to-day realities for many people, and today’s high-paced world requires highly effective recovery strategies, such as restorative yoga. Learn how you can use this passive style of yoga to enhance recovery, restore equilibrium and enhance well-being, for both you and your clients.

You may be used to delivering completely “personal” one-on-one training, but many believe that multi-client, “personalized” group training is where the industry is going. Read on to discover exercise strategies that specifically support a culture of camaraderie during multi-client workouts, and how this will keep clients coming back for more.

You’ve worked hard to become an educated, skilled professional. But without any fitness clients, you’ve got a hobby, not a paying career! To drive your bottom line, you need to know how to attract new trainees. Here are 15 ideas for getting more prospective leads to keep your business moving forward.

Developing a short-term weight-loss or nutrition program—such as a 10-week lifestyle reboot or a 4-week diet detox—can be an effective way to expand your business and add an important revenue stream. Learn how to improve trainee results, retention and your bottom line, all while staying within your scope of practice as a fitness professional.

If you are a personal trainer or group exercise instructor, selectively adding non-physical yoga practices to client sessions can boost workout variety and interest. Deepening your understanding of “non-hatha” yoga techniques can help your participants attain better results in their fitness, weight-loss and life-balance goals.

The world is changing fast and fitness professionals need to stay alert and be ready to adapt to those changes if they are going to be—and stay—successful. If your personal-training sales systems are the business equivalent of legwarmers and leotards, it’s time to step into the future and start training new-school. Here are seven ways to start reinventing your fitness business today.

High levels of stress and poor posture can cause chronic tension in the neck, shoulders and upper back that can dramatically affect one’s quality of life. With regular and mindful practice, however, yoga can offer a long-term solution to both the physical and psychological causes of neck and shoulder pain discomfort. Learn how you can help your clients alleviate their neck and shoulder pain with these simple, yet effective yoga poses.

If you’ve been teaching the same group-ex classes for a while, you may be feeling a little stuck, perhaps a little stale. And if you feel this way, chances are your participants might be feeling it as well! To help you get out of a teaching rut, give these 10 tips from fellow group fitness pros a try.

Hands-on adjustments can be an important part of the training process, helping clients to learn how to properly execute specific exercises safely and effectively. In yoga, hands-on adjustments are as much an art as they are a science. Here’s what you need to know to correctly, safely and professionally perform physical assists when teaching this ancient practice.

What do basketball superstar LeBron James, tennis champion Andy Murray and all the NFL players of the Seattle Seahawks have in common? Yoga. Athletes and fitness enthusiasts alike are discovering they recuperate faster and feel better when incorporating yoga into their exercise programs. Some even speculate that yoga could be the key to avoiding the aches and pains associated with aging. Here’s how you can help your clients do the same.

Have you ever considered sharing your clients with another trainer? Learn why this increasingly common practice may not only be better for your clients, but could increase your income and help you achieve a better work-life balance as well.