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What To Do With a Personal Training Certification
Since passing my NASM exam and becoming certified as a personal trainer, a lot of my questions have sprung from one major one: “What next?” There are so many pathways to take with a personal training...
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The Introvert’s Guide to Fitness Instruction
A couple weeks ago, I submitted an article draft that made me sound terrified and lacking confidence. The subject was “what your fitness instructor is thinking,” and I rattled off all sorts of...
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The Top 3 Reasons I Exercise
Hello friends and happy Wednesday! Recently I’ve discovered just how important exercise is for me. I’ve always known it is something that I seem to do instinctually and something that I just KNOW...
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Exercise is My Amends: Finding a Deeper Meaning
There are plenty of different reasons why people exercise. After writing last week’s post about the three reasons I choose to exercise, I started to think a little more deeply about why it has become...
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How Two Types of Exercise Combine To My One Perfect Plan
My goal for this blog is to talk about equal parts fitness, food, and motivation/inspiration (with the occasional technical blogging or writing post thrown in there). I haven’t talked as much about...
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4 Benefits of Taking An Exercise Break During Vacation
As you all know, this past weekend I spent 5 days visiting some of Neil’s family in North Carolina. As evidenced from the onslaught of food pictures, you also know that it wasn’t the healthiest of...
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6 Ways You Can Become an Amazing Fitness Instructor
I took some time yesterday to look back at the results of this year’s blog survey again. I realized that many of you wanted more fitness posts, but that I haven’t delivered as many recently. The truth...
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Not Sure Which Workout Format is Best For You? Try Asking Your Body.
The human body is an incredible thing. Listing all the specific details that make our bodies magical will likely be redundant to some and quickly illustrate my undue excitement over biological systems....
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2015 Fitness Holiday Gift Guide
Back again today with another gift guide! This time I wanted to share with you some of my favorites throughout my time as a fitness participant and also things I've found helpful as a trainer and as an...
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6 Parallels Between Healthy Living and Recovery
Healthy living is a broad phrase that encompasses different things for different people. For me, healthy living is a combination of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Some days those...
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5 Things You Should Do When Taking A New Fitness Class
First off, for those of you who were interested in using the 30% discount on last week's Oak Leaf lamp, it looks like it's back in stock! I'm still working with the company to see about offering a...
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How I Ate and Exercised to Prepare for My Fitness Photo Shoot
Two weekends ago I had my first fitness photo shoot. Although I was in decent shape before, I knew I wasn't at my peak because as much as I enjoy working out, I also enjoy donuts and pizza. I decided...
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My Struggle For A Healthy Lifestyle
My health journey spans well over 10 years. There have been ups, downs, and lessons every step of the way. It can be easy to jump into reading healthy living blogs or look at fitness instructors and...
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Why You Should Own More Than One Pair of Athletic Shoes
A girl can never have too many shoes, right? Personally, I've never been a huge collector of shoes and the thought of accessorizing different styles with different outfits makes me sleepy. One area...
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5 Misconceptions About Working Out
I've been spending a lot of time on Pinterest over the past several months and I've been noticing a trend that bothers me every time. As someone with a career in fitness and health, one of the boards I...
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One Key Step to Finding and Maintaining Your Balance
I talk a lot about balance on here and I wanted to talk a little more today about how I achieve that in my daily life. A healthy lifestyle involves a balance of all facets of health: physical,...
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8 Things I’ve Learned From One Year As A Fitness Instructor
March marks one year of teaching for me at Sweat. During that time, I've also picked up some teaching gigs at a couple other places in the city, but I credit Sweat for helping me break into this...
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How To Stay Healthy As A Personal Trainer
The job of a personal trainer is to help others find and maintain health. You can find plenty of articles written on how hiring a trainer will help motivate and push you and exactly what is entailed...
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Building Healthier Habits + A Giveaway!
Disclaimer: This post was sponsored by Nature Made® as a part of a Blog Blast for Influence Central. Building healthier habits is something that takes time, dedication, and commitment. If it's not...
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Finding A Food Balance as a Personal Trainer
I haven't done a What I Ate Wednesday post in FOREVER, which is crazy because I used to do them religiously every week. I figured today was a good day to cross this post off my list because I continue...
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