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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Personal trainers"”.
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Preferred Traits in Personal Trainers
<p>As a personal trainer, understanding a client’s needs is essential when building individualized workouts. The purpose of this study was to establish what potential clients desire most in a personal trainer. Two hundred and six participants completed an online questionnaire including …
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Certified personal trainers and physicians: An evaluation of consumer preference, influence, and decision making on intent to use a weight-loss medication
… among both physicians (MD) and certified personal trainers (CPT) (Ashworth, 2002; Holcomb, 2012). Given the current obesity epidemic in the United States (CDC, 2013), the research model examined two different sources of knowledge for weight-loss medications (MD versus CPT). The objective …
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The French Expatriate Assignment: Helping Accompanying Spouses to Adapt by Assuming the Role of Anthropologist
… their employees without having to "meddle" in personal and family affairs, recent research has shown that the adaptation of the accompanying spouse is one of the most critical factors in expatriate assignment success or failure. By studying the available literature on expatriate spouse …
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The general public's knowledge and perceptions of the certified athletic trainer's professional role and educational background
… indicate the public confuses certified athletic trainers with "personal trainers" and other strength and conditioning professionals. Eighty-four percent of the respondents were unable to define the acronym "ATC," the credential that identifies a certified athletic trainer.</p> <p>Most (78 …
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The Emotional Intelligence of Award-Winning Fitness Industry Professionals
… with careers as fitness instructors, personal trainers, and program directors demonstrate higher emotional intelligence than non-award winning fitness professionals as measured by the Emotional Competency Inventory (ECI). The study also compared self and others’ assessment scores as …
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It's Personal and it's Professional: The meanings women Baby-boomers attribute to their ageing and 'working-out' with a personal trainer.
… 18 women Baby-boomers employ the services of a Personal Trainer. The numerous semi-structured interviews and verbatim transcriptions were subjected to on-going analysis, during which I recognised that in spite of the ‘richness’ of data, not all the subtleties could be captured. This, however, …
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Comparison of Fitness Training Efficacy of In-Person to Online Coaching on Goal Attainment for Adults
Certified personal trainers and online coaches create training programs that are designed to guide their clients to achieving their fitness goals. Frequently a client will not fully define what their goal(s) is, rather they use subjective terms such as "I want to lose weight" or "I would like to …
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Body perceptions of Western Australian female group fitness instructors and the influence of the workplace
Group fitness instructors work in an environment that promotes the often unattainable pursuit of an ideal body shape. The fitness centre often displays pictures of slim body shapes on the walls and sells goods and services that relate to weight loss and the improvement of the appearance. The …