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Celebrate National Physical Fitness & Sports Month! May is a time when many people begin spending more time outdoors. It's also National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, and it's a great time to celebrate the benefits of becoming and staying active all year round.
Lifestyle Coaching: The Ultimate Tool for Fitness Professionals The ultimate challenge for health and fitness professionals is filling the gap between clients’ intentions and their actions.
Strength Training for Everyday Living A popular misconception is that strength training will cause a person to "bulk up", or show a pronounced increase in muscle mass. In fact, strength training for general fitness aims for a balanced physique that allows a person to perform the activities of daily life without undue strain or stress.
Upgrade Your Relationship Skills Do you remember the great line from the film "Field of Dreams" - "If you build it, they will come"? Well, that is exactly what we are going to do in this two-part series. We are going to help you build great relationship skills.

Avoiding Heat-Related Illnesses

Working up a sweat is one indicator that the body is reacting to exercise. Sweating is the body's way of cooling off, but when the system breaks down, serious injuries can be the result.

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Evaluating Chest Pain

Chest pain is always something to be taken seriously. But how can you tell if what someone is experiencing is a heart attack, or something else, like heartburn?

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Staying Tick Free This Season

Spring has sprung across North America, and that means more opportunities for exercising outdoors, as well as more chances to come into contact with sometimes disease carrying parasites such as ticks.

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Cardio, Resistance Exercise Could Help Lower Blood Pressure, Study Finds

Aerobic exercise, resistance training, and some isometric exercises could represent alternative therapies to lower blood pressure and could be incorporated into a comprehensive plan to lower blood pressure, according to a new statement by the American Heart Association (AHA).

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Lifestyle Coaching: The Ultimate Tool for Fitness Professionals, Pt. 2

While many fitness professionals think they already coach their clients, lifestyle coaching has specific core competencies and skills which, once mastered, enable a fitness professional to fully engage with a client so that results are reached and maintained for a lifetime.

Read more: Lifestyle Coaching: The Ultimate Tool for Fitness Professionals, Pt. 2

   

Which to Change First: Diet or Exercise?

Many weight loss and health maintenance programs involve changes in a person's diet and activity level, but does it make a difference if both changes are made at the same time? The results of a newly published study suggest that it does.

Read more: Which to Change First: Diet or Exercise?

   

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