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What Soft Skills Does A Personal Trainer Need?
In one of his recent blogs, our Course Tutor, Chris Baird, talked about Perfecting Your Delivery which looked at spending time reflecting on things such as how well did your session go? Did you achieve the objective of the session? How did you interact with your client?…
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PT Book Essentials
When I first started my career in Personal Training I wanted to read everything. I honestly never realised how little I knew or understood as I do now. I’m 100% certain that when I look back in a further 10 years I’ll question so many…
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Perfecting Your Delivery
“If you teach a client to squat, 1/3 will get it, 1/3 won’t get it, 1/3 can’t do it.” I was lucky enough to attend a great workshop this week and get some continual professional development. While I must admit I like to think I…
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What is CPD?
Depending on who you speak to, CPD stands for Continual Professional Development, Continued Professional Development or Continuous Professional Development. Whichever description you prefer it doesn’t matter, you get the gist…..it’s continuing with your learning during your chosen career. For personal trainers, this may mean attending CPD courses and or workshops. One…
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What Makes A Good Personal Trainer?
All of the course tutors who write CPD courses and workshops for motive8 CPD are or were personal trainers. We feel this gives us an advantage when developing and writing CPD courses and workshops, as we understand what personal trainers are looking for when they…
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New Year, New You, New CPD Courses
It’s that time of year when many of our personal training clients may be thinking about their New Year Resolutions. Yes, we are still in December, but some people will already be looking ahead to what they would like to achieve in 2016. This doesn’t…
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The Relationship Between Resistance Training and Sprint Performance
Whether we look at football, hockey, rugby, or even middle and long distance running, one thing becomes apparent – the ability to run at speed (aka sprint) is paramount. Training to improve sprint performance therefore becomes ever increasingly important, however the relationship between resistance training…
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CPD Courses – Running Conditioning & Biomechanics Review
Last weekend Chris Baird delivered our Running Conditioning and Biomechanics Course in Leeds. And what a course it was! This CPD course is geared up for already qualified personal trainers to gain valuable CPD points, however non-personal trainers who are simply into their own running…