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 How to Become a Highly Successful Personal Fitness Trainer 05/07/08

"Most people don't recognize opportunity because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Anonymous

 

 

 

 Exercise Prescription for Overweight and Obese Individuals 05/05/08

"Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will.  You have time and eternity to rejoice in." - Dr. Jim Bell

 American Life Span Decreases! 04/29/08

"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals & achieving them.  Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams." - Og Mandino

 Post-Partum Medial Issues (Women's Fitness Pt. 3) 04/18/08

"The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." - Thomas Alva Edison

 Women's Fitness: Pregnancy - Part 02 04/04/08

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." - Ayn Rand

 Women's Fitness: Pregnancy - Part 01 04/01/08

"Mediocrity is as common as sand, excellence is as rare as gold, but while sand and gold have no choice in how they exist, you do.  You can choose a life of mediocrity, or you can choose a life of excellence by consistent, relentless and organized training and continuously striving for excellence!"

- Dr. Jim Bell

 Sprinting Form and Technique 03/01/08

"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds." - Mahatma Gandhi

 Senior Fitness Market Extremely Lucrative 02/08/08

"There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire." - John Churton Collins

 Burn 500 Calories Fast!!! 01/28/08

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

- George Bernard Shaw

 Exercise Prescription for Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome 01/02/08

"Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny." - Carl Schurz

 Twelve Strategies for Avoiding Holiday Weight Gain 12/14/07

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

- Mark Twain

 Approaching Fitness Vegas 2007 11/30/07

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." - Isaac Newton

 A Standard Conditioning for All Fall Sports 11/21/07

"Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about." - Trey Parker & Matt Stone

 IFPA: The Only NOCA/NCCA/IACET Accredited Certification 11/15/07

"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration." - Kurt Lewin

 In Honor of Veterans Day 11/09/07

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.  I do not shrink from this responsibility I welcome it." - John F. Kennedy

 How to Set Up a Circuit training Program 11/08/07

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time." - Anna Freud

 How to Keep Your Members Active 11/06/07

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim

 NOCA/NCCA Accreditation Awarded to IFPA 10/25/07

"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication." - Cecil B. DeMille

 When Exercise Accelerates Aging 10/19/07

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller

 A Positive Approach to the Aging Process 10/08/07

"Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength." - Betty Friedan

 Presidential Active Lifestyle Award 10/01/07

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

 The IFPA Invites You to FITNESS VEGAS!!! 09/28/07

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

- Freya Madeline Stark

 Turning Back the Clock - Extend Your Years 09/07/07

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison

 Personal Development 08/20/07

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

- Buddha

 Obesity is 'Socially Contagious' 08/03/07

"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."

- Sir Winston Churchill

 Take Time to Stretch 07/23/07

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." - Carl Sandburg

 Certified Fitness Professional Success Course 07/13/07

"The Chinese symbol for Crisis is the symbol for Danger combined with the symbol for Opportunity."

- John F. Kennedy

 Whole-Person Wellness: A 21st Century Solution 07/02/07

"Man's unique reward is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself." - Ayn Rand

 NOCA/NCCA Accreditation Update 06/19/07

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

- Oscar Wilde

 Can Conditioning Improve Sports Performace? 06/13/07

"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."

- Madeleine L'Engle

 Try Swimming This Summer 06/08/07

"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character." - Isabelle Eberhardt

 How to Become a Personal Trainer: Part 03 06/01/07

"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." - David Rockefeller

 Happy Memorial Day! 05/25/07

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances."

- Julia Sorel

 Fitness Vegas!!! 05/18/07

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything." - George Lois

 Important Announcements 05/09/07

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

- Oscar Wilde

 How to Become a Personal Trainer: Part 02 05/03/07

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." - Samuel Johnson

 Stephanie Stokes Press Release 04/23/07

"All your young life they will tell you the things you cannot do. Quite firmly and very quickly they will tell you no. A thousand times until all the NOs become meaningless. They will tell you NO, and YOU WILL tell them YES!" - Stephanie Stokes

 Important Update on the IFPA Application for NOCA/NCCA

Accreditation 04/19/07

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - Calvin Coolidge

 Meet Your Feet 04/16/07

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

 How to Become a Personal Trainer: Part 01 04/02/07

"Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred."

- W. N. Taylor

 Strength Training for Time-Pressured People 03/20/07

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind." - William James

 Advanced Fitness Assessment: Muscular Balance 03/14/07

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale

 Abrupt Action Components 03/09/07

"When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited." - Brian Tracey

 Sports Conditioning: Flexibility 03/02/07

"If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

 Free PFT Chapter: How to Become a Personal Fitness Trainer 02/21/07

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

 Core and Functional Training for PFT and SCS 02/15/07

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

 Yoga: Strengthen Your Body and Your Mind 02/01/07

"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it." - Mother Teresa

 Practice Does Not Make Perfect 01/26/07

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

- Edgar Allan Poe

 Fitness Assessment for Low Back Pain Exercise Prescription 01/18/07

"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.  Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.  We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous or honest."

- Maya Angelou

 As Young as You Feel 01/08/07

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement; not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything." - Napoleon Hill

 Muscular Midsection 12/29/06

"Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire." - Samuel Johnson

 Merry Christmas 12/22/06

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."

- Ayn Rand

 Exercise Management 12/20/06

"With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it."

- Aristotle

 Exercise Prescription for Low Back Pain 12/15/06

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."

- William Shakespeare

 Low Back Pain 12/04/06

"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."

- Charles Dickens

 Best Sports Drink: Low-Fat Chocolate Milk 11/22/06

"We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today." - Dale Carnegie

 Building Bigger Stronger Forearms 11/02/06

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." - Thomas Jefferson

 Are You Tired of Not Having Your Degree? 10/27/06

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

 Building Bigger Stronger Calf Muscles 10/04/06

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content." - Helen Keller

   Building Six-Pack Abs 09/12/06

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan

 Building Bigger Stronger Rotator Cuff Muscles 09/06/06

"Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life youve imagined." - Henry David Thoreau

 Building Bigger Stronger Lower Back and Hip Muscles (Online CEU) 09/01/06

It is impossible to go through life without painwhat you do have a choice over, however, is how you choose to use the pain life gives you. - Anonymous

 Building Bigger Stronger Shoulders 08/28/06

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. - Dale Carnegie

 Building Bigger Stronger Chest Muscles 08/25/06

The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the being perfected without trials. - Anonymous

 Building Bigger Stronger Thigh Muscles: Hamstrings 08/23/06

Knowledge of any kindbrings about a change of awareness from where it is possible to create new realities. - Deepak Chopra

 Building Bigger Stronger Thigh Muscles: Quadriceps 08/18/06

He who has a why to live for, can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  Building Bigger Stronger Upper Back Muscles (Online CEU) 08/02/06

The highest reward for a persons work is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. - John Ruskin

 Building Bigger Stronger Arms: Triceps  07/27/06

Believe in yourself.  You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the faceThe danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with itYou must make yourself succeed every time.  You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt

 Building Bigger Stronger Arms: Biceps  07/21/06

"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but how we react to what happens to us, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a Catalyst. a spark that creates extraordinary results." - Anonymous

 Urgent: Critically Important Update from the AHA  07/14/06

"The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Exercise Intensity and Body Composition  07/07/06

"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny." - Anonymous

 Strength Training for Posture (Online CEU)   06/30/06

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." - Dale Carnegie

  Summertime is for Cycling (Online CEU)  06/23/06

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

  Concerns Over Compulsiveness  06/16/06

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it." - Epicurus

  Join the Fight to Save Your Life  05/31/06

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do." - Johann von Goethe

 Twelve Reasons Every Adult Should Do Strength Exercise (Online CEU)  05/16/06

"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."

 - Isaac Asimov

  West Virginia Schools Get Game to Fight Obesity  04/25/06

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle

  Low-Calorie Diet Keeps Heart Young  04/07/06

"Be that self which one truly is." - Kierkegaard

  Study Warns that Majority in U.S. Could Become Overweight, Obese  04/05/06

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." - Dale Carnegie

  Shaping Up For Spring And Summer  03/31/06

"If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow." - Chinese Proverb

  Experts Warn Against Excess Fluids During Exercise  03/29/06

"Your thoughts become your choices, your choices become your habits, and your habits become your lifestyle. If you want to change your lifestyle, change your thoughts." - Anonymous

  Exercise Adds Years to Life and Improves Quality, Researchers Say  03/24/06

"Success is not so much what we have as it is what w