ACE-SPONSORED RESEARCH: Do Younger and Older Adults Respond the Same to Individualized Exercise Training?

Few things can more quickly derail a client’s ability and desire to achieve his or her fitness goals than an injury. And as a health and exercise professional, those same injuries can be a significant obstacle to your ability to maintain a consistent income. Before you—and your clients—assume they can’t train while injured or keep progressing toward their goals, here are a few things worth taking into consideration.

This article is for anyone who trains or teaches clients struggling with behavior change around weight loss. Here, three personal trainers who’ve faced their own challenges with weight loss and/or dieting share from-the-trenches advice for motivating and supporting clients affected by overweight and obesity toward more healthful behavior change.