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Coaching insights, career guides, and industry knowledge from the PFCA team.
Designing workout programmes is the foundation of personal training, whether it’s for clients in a gym, rehabbing an injury or coaching high performing athletes in sport. Being able to create a well designed workout programme will ensure your clients, whoever they are, stay engaged, motivated, and o...
The goal of programming a new training block for group PT is to create an effective and structured programme which aligns with your gym members’ goals, works with their abilities and progresses them over time. This article will break down the process of developing the perfect training block for grou...
Movement assessment is an evaluation by personal trainers which allows them to tailor a workout or plan specifically to each client. Specifically, it is the process whereby personal trainers will look at how clients move, checking for limitations, imbalances or over compensations and try to understa...
The time it takes to become a personal trainer is highly dependent on which course you take, the amount of time you can dedicate to your studies, and also your rate of learning. In this article, we’ll break down the process of becoming a personal trainer, including the qualifications needed, trainin...
It has become the norm for online courses, webinars and virtual meetings to be the main medium of learning in the fitness industry, with them offering a high degree of convenience for organisers and attendees, and lower overhead costs. Despite this however, there are still many benefits to attending...
Relationships are the central component of a successful Personal Trainer/Coach to Client relationship. This article will present 5 simple ways any coach can strengthen their relationships with their clients, to ensure long term success.
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The role of personal trainers goes way beyond simply prescribing a workout to clients; it involves guiding them through long term progress with periodisation from the macro view as well as progressing them in the very short term within individual workouts from the micro view.
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A strong and robust aerobic base, colloquially known as an ‘engine’, is the central component for athletic performance and general health. Contrary to popular belief, building an elite level aerobic base doesn’t require super intense efforts every day. Instead, we can build a strong foundation by en...
In sports specific coaching and client-focused personal training, tailoring a workout program that aligns with your client or athlete’s individual goals is your aim. At the PFCA, one of our favourite and highly effective methods for achieving this is by implementing the concept of Reps in Reserve (...
After qualifying as a PT following completion of a level 3 pt course, a question that many PTs ask themselves is whether to pursue a career as an employed trainer working for a gym or as a self employed trainer, running their own business.This is ultimately a choice that will not just affect their d...
