Angel Chelik

Here’s a great workout that will challenge and strengthen both your arms and abdominal muscles.

If you want to stand out from other health and exercise professionals, try adding a quarterly “Field Day” event to your programming. To help you get started, here are three outdoor games that kids and adults are sure to love.

When a trainer and client collectively approach the research and planning of a program, the client is more likely to adhere to new healthier choices. Here are three ways to start shifting your thinking and your conversations with your clients toward greater collaboration, beginning on your very first meeting.

Food journaling is a proven way to help people lose weight and keep it off, but many people feel overly burdened by the tedious process of logging everything they eat or drink. Learn how successful health coaches and exercise professionals are combining new technologies with new approaches to food journaling that can dramatically increase clients’ chances of success.

Strengthening the core is an excellent way to help your clients improve posture, move more efficiently and reduce their risk of injuries. Whether it’s first thing in the morning or during an afternoon break, help your clients work on firing up the core with these functional core exercises.

Share the love this Valentine’s Day by working out with your partner! This quick 20-minute body-weight circuit is ideal for improving heart health and core strength—and leaves plenty of time in your day for celebrating each other.

As we evolve in the industry and become more knowledgeable about current scientific studies and theories, we need to constantly be re-evaluating the exercises we have our clients perform. Here are three common exercises that are outdated and should be removed from your programs. The good news is that there are more effective ways to do them.

You most likely became a group fitness instructor because you care about people and their health. You thrive off of the energy in the room and pinch yourself that going to “work” means going to such a positive, fun-filled space. In addition to getting paid, here are some unexpected benefits that will make you love teaching even more.

Strong glutes produce mobile hips, a stable core, and a decreased risk of knee and back pain. Add these six exercises into your classes and programs and your participants are sure to experience significant increases in strength and mobility.

There’s no question that high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts are effective, but they can also be really challenging. Creating formats that have a variety of work and rest ratios is key to keeping clients engaged in the experience. Here are some ideas for how you can structure HIIT workouts for your clients.

When designing abdominal sequences for your clients, it is important to consider all segments of the abdominals and how they move or stabilize the spine. Here are five exercises that target all of the abdominal muscles by flexing, rotating, stabilizing and laterally flexing the spine.

Applying a high-intensity interval-training (HIIT) format to treadmill workouts is a great way to improve overall fitness and, according to research, dramatically improve running times. If you’re interested in coaching treadmill classes or incorporating treadmill intervals into your clients’ workouts, use these guidelines to help unleash your creativity.

If you’re like most people, you spend way too much time sitting down, which has been shown to have negative health consequences. Learn how to combat endless hours of sitting with movement and specific exercises that will improve your posture, engage weak muscles and stretch tight muscles.

March Madness is almost here—an exciting time for basketball fans. But for those who are playing basketball in adult leagues year-round, improving your skills and staying healthy is not limited to one month a year. Incorporating these exercises, which focus on fitness components essential to basketball, into your fitness routine will help keep you at the top of your game.

The research is clear—incorporating movement into the workday can positively impact employee health and a company’s bottom line. Learn about the benefits of walking meetings and specific strategies for helping your company encourage this enjoyable yet highly productive method for getting things done.

As health and fitness professionals, we work with real people who have their own unique personalities and life circumstances. Here are three types of challenging clients you’re likely to encounter in your career, along with tips on how to overcome their resistance and help them reach their goals.

It’s the start of a New Year and your clients are ready to make some healthy changes. Learn why being prepared with open-ended questions will help give you a deeper understanding of where your clients have been and how they see themselves reaching their goals.

Do you know what motivates your clients? What helps them stick to the programs you design for them? Asking the right questions and helping your clients zero in on what and why they want to change can mean the difference between a successful trainer-client relationship and an experience that prompts them to start looking for a new trainer.

If you’re a personal trainer or health coach, consider getting a group fitness instructor certification to help advance your career and keep you at the top of your game.

If you’re considering becoming a group fitness instructor, you were probably inspired by one of your teachers, and now you want to create that transformative experience for others. This is exciting! Taking that leap from participant to instructor is a big one—bigger than you might think. When you put the microphone on, you’re taking responsibility for everyone and everything that happens in that room. Here are few questions to ask yourself before heading down this path.

Looking ahead to 2015, businesses will be more motivated than ever to help keep their employees healthy and happy. From the Affordable Care Act to revamping company culture, here are the top health and fitness trends affecting businesses and their employees in 2015.