What You Need to Become a Certified Personal Trainer Online

Becoming a certified personal trainer through an online school is not only a great investment in your future, but also a great investment in the future of others’. Personal trainers are equipped with expert advice on the best methods for staying healthy, eating right and developing sustainable exercise regimens. In addition, working as a personal trainer is an ideal way to stay fit while inspiring others to stay healthy as well.

The Basic Requirements

Before you become a certified personal trainer or decide on the right online schools for personal training, you should be sure that you have the necessary skills to be in such a position.

A personal trainer has to be an energetic and outgoing person because he or she is responsible for motivating others to get healthy, eat right and work out. This also means a personal trainer will need to possess a good deal of patience. Potential clients may be challenging or difficult when it comes to exercising the right way or following regimens put in place by the trainer. In this manner, a certified personal trainer has to understand that in order to help others he or she has to remain calm and always remember to put the client first.

It is also important for personal trainers to be physically fit because they will be setting an example for others. Certified personal trainers are literally the motivating factor behind someone’s desire to change how they look and feel.

The Right Educational Requirements

Before you can consider yourself an expert personal trainer and someone who has enough credentials to tell someone else how to live and eat, you need to be qualified yourself. You’ll need to get the proper training in nutrition and personal fitness. This training will ultimately serve as the foundation for others’ plans so choosing the right way to get educated is extremely important.

Choosing the Best Online Schools

Choosing an online school that will make you a certified personal trainer is your first step. Your best option is to choose an online school that has been accredited by the International Sports Science Association, the American Council of Exercise, the American Fitness Professionals & Associates Organization or the National Personal Trainers Institute. Any of these professional organizations lend an air of legitimacy to an online school and you can feel comfortable getting your education there.

Before you decide on a school, however, be sure to think about what area of certified personal training suits you best because that’s the program you’ll want to enroll in. Some certified personal trainers specialize in weight control or weight lifting while others may want to work solely with senior citizens or children. Still others may have a passion for sports fitness. No matter what your personal training passion is you’ll want to specialize in that.

The Other Details

Most online personal training schools will take anywhere from four to six months to complete their training programs. Tuition prices will vary depending on school and program, but you should expect to pay at least 0. Some costs may run you upwards of 0.

After completing all necessary courses in your program, you will have to successfully pass an accreditation exam in order to become certified. Usually your online school of choice will send you the necessary materials for accreditation and arrange the testing location for you. Note that if you are interested in becoming a certified personal trainer who wants to work with kids in an educational setting, you’ll have to become certified through the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

No matter what area of personal training suits you best, remember that a trainer’s job is to jumpstart the lives of others. Take comfort in knowing that by taking care of yourself you are helping other to get healthy and feel better about themselves too.

Guest Post Bio: Tamera Wysell is a freelance writer for onlineschools.org and in her free time she loves to lead fitness classes.

February 3, 2011 | Filed Under Burn Fat, Dieting, Exercise

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The Best Detoxes. How to Do a Detox

NOTE: If you would like to do a Detox please contact me here for more information.

You know those times in your life when you’ve partied a bit hard? Maybe you’ve been working long hours and eating crap? You feel exhausted, lethargic yet anxious and frankly not on top of your game. It’s time like these that you need to Detox. There are a plethora of Detoxes to chose from, lasting from one day up to three months. But before you go launching into the first brand you come across be warned, choosing the program can mean the difference between having a Detox that rocks or having Detox Disaster.

The Benefits of a Detox

Besides the usual benefits of increased energy, clear eyes, skin and regulated moods, Detoxing has many other benefits:

Improves our Immune Function
Reduce the amount of toxins and pollution into our body to lessen the burden against the detoxification organs
Promote healthy eating, nutrition and supplementation to help our body effectively clear the toxins
Scavenge free radicals and eliminate toxins
Strengthen body’s fight against cancer cells and generate healthy cells in our body
Cleanse mucous, congestion, fermentation, inflammation in our digestive tract
Purify our blood
Reform our lifestyle addictions for sugar, salt, high glycemic carbohydrates, alcohol, junk foods, nicotine, etc

Things to be Aware Of

Consult our Doctor if you are:

Under 18yo
Pregnant or breast feeding
Sick or highly stressed
Have diabetes

Some Popular Detoxes

Lemon Detox Diet: Lasting from 1 – 7 days this detox is a liquid diet whereby all meals are replaced with a lemon, Madal Bal Syrup, and Cayenne Pepper drink. They have spent a lot of money marketing this product but I question it’s effectiveness.

Martha’s Vinyard Diet Detox: This is a 21 day Detox that also replaces all meals with either fruit or vegetable juices, protein shakes or herbal teas. No solid food is recommended. Colonics, massages and other supplements sold by the company are encouraged.

The Fruit Flush: A three day Detox. However it is encouraged to do it once per week for twelve weeks. The first day Detoxers have a special protein shake every two hours. On the following two days they have 100cal of fruit every two hours in addition to a salad for lunch and protein shake for dinner.

Dr J oshi: Is all about returning your body back to it’s natural Alkaline state. According to Joshi our bodies function better if we are slightly alkaline because it improves digestion and disease resilience. Lasting for 21 days Detoxers are asked to avoid acidic, toxic and refined foods including red meat, dairy, fruit (except bananas), wheat, nuts, sugar and sweets, potatoes, coffee and tea. Instead they are told to eat from a list of acceptable meats, brown rice, fish, produce and grains.

The Detox I like to Follow

I do not advocate liquid diets which rules out three of the above four detoxes. I also feel that the best Detoxes are one’s that you can adapt into your life even when the Detox is over. Therefore I do a fourteen day Detox using Detox Recipes written by Nicola Graimes Combined with a Metagenics supplement. I have done this Detox over five times myself and put hundreds of clients on it with great health results as well as weight loss (the best being 11kg/24lb loss in 14 days).

How It Works

Day one: Fast day. One type of fruit or vegetable is to be eaten and only water drunk

Day two – seven: Every morning you take your s detox supplement mixed with water. Follow the diet plan and recipes using the best fruits, vegetables and superfoods. Please be aware that the following foods are not allowed and the only drinks allowed are water and decaffeinated herbal teas:

No caffeine
No alcohol
No meat
No dairy
No added sugar
No wheat (bread pasta etc)
Nothing processed
Basically it’s fruits and vegetables for the week and not much else

Day eight – fourteen: Same as above but introduce yoghurt and starchy vegetables such as potato

Lifestyle Factors to Accelerate the Detox

Epsom Salt baths: One of the fastest ways to absorb Magnesium is through the skin, so an Magnesium Sulfate (aka Epsom salts) is a relaxing, effective way to improve your magnesium levels.

Dry Skin Brushing: Fot those of you struggling with cellulite or dull skin, dry skin brushing stimulates blood circulation to the surface of the skin which not only clears out toxins that are stored in subcutaneous tissue, but it also stimulates your endocrine system which is crucial for detoxing.

Herbal Tea’s: As good as Green Tea is, it contains caffeine so avoid it during this Detox. My favourite Detox teas are Rooibos, Roasted dandelion, chamomile, peppermint and Ginger tea. There are many to choose from so try a few and use them to curb your appetite.

Gentle Exercise: Being a fitness nut I know how hard it is to hear the dreaded ‘R’ word – Rest. But throughout this Detox it is what I recommend, or at least slowing right down. You will be eating less food than normal and the aim is to keep stress on the body to a minimum so adjust your routine to match how you are feeling. If you are feeling energetic and strong then partaking in a class such as Body Pump, Yoga, Pilates, or Body Balance is fine. If you are feeling weak, then some gentle walks and stretches at home will suffice. Try to do something gentle for 20-30 minutes every day.

Mediation: To distress the mind and feel emotionally centred You may want to meditate. If you don’t know where to begin I suggest downloading some meditation podcasts. My favorite is Meditation Oasis in Itunes. You can watch my video blog about it.

Choosing The Best Time to Detox

In an ideal world, you would take time off work and do your Detox in a relaxed state. That isn’t always possible so make sure you choose a time when you can do the following:

Get 8 hrs sleep every night
Make some time for meal preparation and food shopping
Make some time for gentle exercise and meditation
Cancel as many social engagements as possible and buy a good book
Be prepared to feel lethargic in the first few days
If you can tie your Detox in with some self reflection activities such as Goal Setting, you will feel even more invigorated by the end of your Detox

If you would like to do my Detox please email me ab@ameliaburton.com.au and I will send you more information.

February 3, 2011 | Filed Under Burn Fat, Dieting, Exercise

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In recent years, the number of people opting to have gastric bypass surgery has been increasing steadily. There is nothing wrong with people opting to use this method to lose weight and regain their health, but there are things you should know before you go forward with such as major change in your life.