Professional Development & Client Interaction

  • November 14, 2018

    Traits of a Great Trainer: Empathy
    What is empathy? There’s a story about a trainer, Drew Manning, who purposely gained, and then lost, 70 pounds.1 He claimed he did this because,
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  • March 10, 2018

    Influence of a Personal Trainer on Self-selected Loading During Resistance Exercise
    Influence of a Personal Trainer on Self-selected Loading During Resistance Exercise. J Strength Cond Res 31(7): 1925–1930, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGOAY4P6u5o&feature=youtu.be As trainers, sometimes we under value
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  • March 6, 2018

    Activating the Client Training Session
    In part 1 of this article we examined best practice for improving mobility & developing compliant, injury resistant muscle. In part 2 we will look
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  • February 3, 2017

    Engagement (7 client engagement mistakes & ways to overcome these PT business pitfalls)
    At BCPTI our instructors are constantly looking for ways to help students recognize the gaps in current best practice tactics, and then give them the
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