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Performance Nutrition Following an Injury—From Personal Experience
July 20, 2015
As activity levels decrease, and swelling and inflammation set in, maintaining a diet that promotes healing is essential to keeping weight under control and speeding up recovery.
TSAC Facilitators Nutrition injury recovery nutrition for injury recovery weight management Trisha Stavinoha
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Resistance Training Adaptations: Skeletal Changes
June 1, 2017
Bone tissue is “alive” and is a dynamic tissue that can respond to resistance training. In addition to the obvious effects of resistance training on muscle mass and strength, resistance training may lead to decreased risk for osteoporosis, fractures, and falls in later life.
Coaches Exercise Science kinetic select resistance training adaptations
Sport Performance and Metabolic Rate
May 1, 2017
Knowledge of metabolic rate can help athletes as well as health-conscious people improve their exercise performance or obtain the fat-to-lean-mass ratio optimal for their personal situations. Two examples of how this works follow.
Coaches Exercise Science Nutrition metabolic rate fitness test strength and conditioning weight loss
How Social Media Affects the Legal Rights of Employees
June 4, 2016
While social media can serve as an efficient business tool, it can also complicate the legal rights of the entrepreneurs who use them. This article focuses on three specific—and perhaps surprising—ways in which social media can alter the employment rights of fitness professionals and the gyms they work for.
Personal trainers Legal Issues Professional Development NSCA-CPT personal training employment Social media
Face Pull (Machine)
March 21, 2020Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches Exercise Technique Exercise Technique Face Pull Cable Machine
Romanian Deadlift (RDL)
March 11, 2019
Read a step-by-step description of how to perform the Romanian deadlift (RDL) in this excerpt from NSCA’s Exercise Technique Manual for Resistance Training, 3rd Edition with Online Video.
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches Exercise Technique RDL Romanian Deadlift Deadlift
Glute Ham Raise
January 18, 2020
This excerpt from the book Exercise Technique Manual for Resistance Training, 3rd Edition, discusses the proper technique for the glute ham raise exercise.
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches Exercise Technique Glute Ham Raise Exercise Technique
