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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"personal trainer"”.
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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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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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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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Can Cognitive Behavioural Techniques Reduce Exercise Anxiety and Improve Adherence to a Resistance Training Program for People with Anxiety-Related Disorders?
… and followed a program supported by a certified personal trainer. This program consisted of three weekly RT sessions. During the active phase, participants in the RT + CBT group also met weekly with a clinical psychology doctoral student to learn CBT techniques. Primary measures were assessed at …
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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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Are the Initiation and Maintenance of a Resistance Training Program Associated with Changes to Dietary Intake and Non-Resistance Training Physical Activity in Adults with Prediabetes?
… RT 2x/week in a lab-gym with an ACSM-certified personal trainer. Participants then completed a 6-month faded contact maintenance phase, and a 6-month no-contact phase during which they were to continue RT on their own in a public facility. No advice or encouragement was given to participants to …
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Beyond The Muscles: Exploring the Meaning and Role of Muscularity in Identity
… of this current thesis was to explore the personal meanings of muscularity in those invested in weight training. The research questions that helped address this aim were: What different muscular projects are the participants invested in? How do the participants frame their muscularity in …