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Post-Holiday Fat Loss Tips! 01/15/08
"I think luck is the sense to recognize an
opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it.
Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has
opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and
grab his chances gets on."
-
Samuel Goldwyn
Post Exercise Recovery
Meals! 12/31/08
"Nothing
in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful
individuals 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"
-
Calvin
Coolidge
Keys to Weight Loss! 12/15/08
"No
one can really pull you up very highyou lose your grip
on the rope. But, on your own two feet, you can climb
mountains"
-
Louis Brandeis
Real Medicine Lies In
Exercise and Nutrition! 12/04/08
"Eating alone will
not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For
food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities,
yet work together to produce health."
-Hippocrates, 460-377
B.C.
IFPA Nutrition
Prescriptions! 11/28/08
"A sound mind in a
sound body is a short, but full description of a happy
state in this world."
-John Locke
Sharpen Your Saw! 11/20/08
"If you cannot excel
with talent, triumph with effort!"
-Dave Weinbaum
Newly Revised IFPA Post Secondary Rehabilitation Specialist! 11/01/08
"Ability is of
little account without opportunity"
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The List! 10/16/08
"Small opportunities
are often the beginning of great enterprises!"
-Demosthenes
Core and Functional
Training Comparisons 10/01/08
"It is health that
is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."
-Mahatma Gandhi
Sports Medicine - Exercise Prescription for Anti-Aging 09/03/08
"Success is living
up to your potential; That's all. Wake up with a smile
and go after life..."
-Joe Kapp.
Physical
Fitness Testing - Part 1 08/06/08
"I would rather...
have a nod from an American than a snuff-box from an
Emperor."
-Lord Byron.
Secrets
to Living a Longer, Better, Happier Life!. 06/26/08
"Health is simply
not the absence of sickness"
-Hannah Green.
The
Anti-Aging Revolution. 06/12/08
"Man never made any
material as resilient as the human spirit"
-Bern Williams.
Important
Fitness Updates! 06/05/08
"An aim in life is
the only fortune worth finding."
-
Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis
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 we are." - Jim Rohn
Muscle Loss as Debilitating as Osteoporosis
03/22/06
"Depend not on fortune, but on conduct." -
Publilius Syrus
Obesity Threatens U.S. Life
Expectancy
03/17/06
"It is not because things are difficult that
we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca
Your Money For Your Life
03/15/06
"The way to gain a good reputation, is to
endeavor to be what you desire to appear." - Socrates
Many Parents Don't Admit
Their Child is Overweight
03/10/06
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look
at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split
in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone
before." - Jacob Riis
Soda Targeted in Fight
Against Obesity
03/08/06
"High achievement always takes place in a
framework of high expectation." - Jack Kinder
Carbohydrates, Sugar, and Your Child
03/03/06
"Keep moving. Keep putting one foot in front
of the other. Inch by inch, you will get closer to success." - Ronnie Nijmeh
Stretching for Strength (Online CEU)
02/24/06
According to studies, greater strength
gains are made when stretching is systematically worked into a
resistance training program.
TV Confuses Children About Which Foods Are Healthy
01/20/06
"You can learn new things at any time in
your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like
being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you." - Barbara Sher
Strength Training for Time-Pressured People
01/13/06
"Do not go where the path may lead. Go
instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rich Get Richer and the
Poor Get Poorer
01/09/06
"The rich get richer and the poor get
poorer! This is a serious problem if you are on the poor side of the equation,
but there is a solution to the problem and the solution lies within you!" -
Anonymous
Developing A Warm-Up and Cool-Down Protocol
01/04/06
"The principles you live by create the world
you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your
world." - Blaine Lee
Best of Both Worlds: Stretching and Strengthening
12/23/05
"If you do not have confidence you are twice
defeated in the race of life, but if you have confidence you have won before you
have even started." - Marcus Garvey
IACET Press Release
12/20/05
IACET Announces Granting of Authorized Provider Status
to IFPA
Survival Strategies For The Holiday Season
12/19/05
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can
ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
Fitness Focus On Frail Elderly
12/15/05
"We first must think 'I can,' then
behave appropriately along that line of thought." - Marsha Sinetar
Exercise for Better Health and Sports Performance
12/13/05
"The more extensive a man's knowledge of
what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to
do." - Benjamin Disraeli
Why Obese People Cannot Lose Body Fat
12/07/05
"The man who makes everything that leads
to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted
the very best plan for living happily." - Plato
IFPA Certification Commission
12/05/05
"Are you bored with life? Then throw
yourself into some work you believe in with all of your heart, live for
it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could
never be yours." - Dale Carnegie
Daily Dog Walks Work Off the Pounds
11/30/05
"With regard to excellence, it is
not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it." - Aristotle
Happy Thanksgiving
11/29/05
Did you ever stop to ask yourselfwhy
am I not living my dreams? Could the answer beyou are too busy living
your fears? - Anonymous
News Alert
11/22/05
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood." -
Stephen Covey
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How
Protein-rich Diets Curb Hunger
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depends not on what we do, but on how we do it." - Mihaly
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Cold
Weather Walking and Running
11/15/05
"No one knows what he can do till he tries." -
Publilius Syrus
Waist-to-hip
Ratio Best at Predicting Heart Attack
11/09/05 |
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eat." - Socrates
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Selecting
Exercise Equipment
11/04/05 |
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fortune." - Sallust
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Smoking:
the top preventable cause of cancer deaths
11/02/05 |
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"The only way of finding the limits of
the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C.
Clarke
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Making
Bodyweight Exercises More Challenging
10/28/05 |
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"There are costs and risks to a program of action,
but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of
comfortable inaction." - John F. Kennedy
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Regular
Exercise in Younger Years Reduces Alzheimers Risk by 60%
10/21/05 |
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is
to the body." - Sir Richard Steele
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IFPA
and the Anti-Aging Conference
10/12/05 |
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"If you wish success in life, make
perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution
your elder brother, and hope your guardian angel." - Joseph Addison,
From: Angels All Around Us
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Carb Mistakes
09/30/05 |
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are
small matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hard-to-Get
Nutrients
09/26/05 |
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"Persistance is what makes the impossible
possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite." - Robert Half
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A
Standard Conditioning Program For All Fall Sports
09/22/05 |
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"What we hope ever to do with ease, we
must learn first to do with diligence." - Samuel Johnson
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Facts
About Blood Pressure
09/15/05 |
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"If a man would move the world, he must
first move himself." - Socrates
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09/08/05 |
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"Happiness lies in the joy of
achievement and the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin Roosevelt
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From the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M)
09/01/05 |
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where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King Jr.
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Interval
Training: More Motivation and Better Results
08/25/05 |
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"Success is the good fortune that comes
from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration." - Evan
Esar
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Meet
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08/18/05 |
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"Everything that enlarges the sphere of
human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do,
is valuable." - Samuel Johnson
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Strength Training: Why and How
08/10/05 |
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"With regard to excellence, it is not
enough to know, but we must try to have and use it." - Aristotle
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Time To Stretch
08/05/05 |
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human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do,
is valuable." - Samuel Johnson
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Fitness
By The Bay 2005
08/02/05 |
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You are capable of so much more! You
have no idea yet, but there are no limits to what you can do.
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Save
A Child's Life
07/27/05 |
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"A child's life is like a piece of paper
on which every person leaves a mark." - Anonymous
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Summertime
Is For Cycling
07/20/05 |
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"One week to go and I am truly looking
forward to seeing you again at this year's Fitness By The Bay. It is
always a celebration to see old friends and have an opportunity to make
new friends. See you soon." - Jim Bell
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A
Muscular Midsection
07/15/05 |
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"Two weeks to go and I am truly looking
forward to seeing you again at this year's Fitness By The Bay. It is
always a celebration to see old friends and have an opportunity to make
new friends. See you soon." - Jim Bell
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-
Genetics
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Nutrition
-
Exercise
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Try
Swimming This Summer
07/13/05 |
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"If a man would move the world, he must
first move himself." - Socrates
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Urgent
Message from IFPA President Jim Bell, PhDc.
06/30/05 |
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Ive Got to Get This Off My Chest Before
I Explode!!! |
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Fight
Cellulite
06/27/05 |
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"When I dare to be powerful, to use my
strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less
important whether I am afraid." - Audre Lorde
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- Exercise Program Results
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Exercise Program
Components
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Nutrition Program
Components
- Summary
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National
Fitness Tradeshow (NFTS)
06/16/05 |
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"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should
sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music
or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all
the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great
street sweeper who did his job well." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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Better
Running Through Strength Training - Part Three
06/10/05 |
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"Circumstances
do not make a man, they reveal him."
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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Upper
Body Muscles
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Arm
Muscles
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Midsection Muscles
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Neck Muscles
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Summary
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Better
Running Through Strength Training - Part Two
06/03/05 |
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"I feel that the greatest reward for doing
is the opportunity to do more." - Jonas Salk
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Better
Running Through Strength Training - Part One
06/03/05 |
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"What lies behind us and what lies before
us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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-
High-Risk Activity?
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Strength
Training Benefits
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Runner
Concerns
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Tennis: Serve Up Your Best Performance
05/27/05 |
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"An
optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a
calamity in every opportunity." -
Winston Churchill
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Spotlight on Success
05/24/05 |
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"You
must come to a life-changing realization that your anger, anxiety, fear
and frustration will not leave you until you stop sitting around
feeling sorry for yourself and start learning. There are unlimited
resources available to help you overcome your anxiety: books, courses,
doctors, counselors, support groups, teachers, mentors and much, much
more!" -
Anonymous
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IFPA Success Stories
05/20/05 |
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"Only in growth, reform
and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." -
Anne Morrow
Lindbergh
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The "Pin-Up" Calendar
05/18/05 |
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"Any
experience can be transformed into something of value." -
Vash Young
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IFPA Group Fitness Instructor of the Year for 2004
05/13/05 |
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"Destiny
is not a matter of chance, it is a choice. It is not a thing to be
waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." -
William Bryan
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IFPA Personal Trainer of the Year for 2004
05/12/05 |
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"In
the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process
never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our
responsibility." -
Eleanor Roosevelt
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IFPA Fitness Director of the Year for 2004
05/11/05 |
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"Ive
come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that is as
unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to
discover what you love and then figure a way to offer it to others in
the form of service, working hard and also allowing the energy of the
All-Mighty to lead you." |
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IFPA Faculty Instructor of the Year for 2004
05/10/05 |
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"Dont
spend your precious time asking: Why isnt the world a better place?
It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is How can I make it
better? To that there is an answer." -
Leo F. Buscaglia
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Sculpting the Lower Body
05/06/05 |
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"The height of your accomplishment will equal the depth of your
convictions." -
William Scalauno
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Self-Assessment Response
05/04/05 |
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"I have SUCCEEDED in whatever I have undertaken, because I have
WILLED it. I have NEVER HESITATED, which has given me an ADVANTAGE
over the rest of mankind." -
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Honest Self-Assessment
04/29/05 |
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"You are where you are today
because you have chosen to be there." -
Harry Browne
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A Positive Approach to the Aging Process
04/08/05 |
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"He
had the deed half done, who has made a beginning." - Horace
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Strength Training and Children
04/01/05 |
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"Pleasure
in the job puts perfection in the work." -
Aristotle
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Body Composition: The Most Important Fitness Component
03/23/05 |
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"Iron
rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather
becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." -
Leonardo da Vinci
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Nutrition Quiz
03/18/05 |
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"It's
better to light a candle than curse the darkness." -
Chinese proverb
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The Rules of Engagement for Fitness Professionals
03/11/05 |
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"Courage
is not the absence of fear - it is the conquest of it." |
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Discipline is the Soul of an Army
03/08/05 |
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"Discipline
is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable,
procures success to the weak and
esteem to all." - George Washington
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-
George Washington
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The IFPA Wants You
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Announcing the New IFPA Personal Training Elite
Education Package
03/04/05 |
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"When
we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in
our life, or in the life of another." -
Helen Keller
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-
Group One Package
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Group Two Package
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New Reasons To Exercise: Better Posture and Greater
Height
02/24/05 |
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"To
do is to be."
- Socrates
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-
Research Study
- Assessment Procedures
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Practical Application
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The IFPA Training Log
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Strength Training: How Long? How Often?
02/18/05 |
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"A
desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action
presupposes a goal which is worth achieving." -
Ayn Rand
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Taking Control
02/10/05 |
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"The
people who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who
have the ambition and will power to develop themselves."
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Overcoming Obstacles
02/04/05 |
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"For
a long time it had seemed to be that life was about to begin real
life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be
got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a
debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that
these obstacles were my life."
-
Fr. Alfred DSouza
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IFPA Certified Personal Trainer Takes It To the Next
Level
01/26/05 |
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"He
who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits
for the river to run out before he crosses."
- Horace
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Practical Fitness Testing and Assessment
01/21/05 |
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"We should not let our fears hold us
back from pursuing our hopes." -
John F. Kennedy
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Transformation from Sedentary to Active PART 3
01/14/05 |
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"The
most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like
they cannot be done." -
Arnold Palmer
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Transformation from Sedentary to Active PART 2
01/11/05 |
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"There arent any great men. There are just great
challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstance to
meet." - Admiral William F. Halsey
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Transformation from Sedentary to Active
01/07/05 |
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"Choice, not chance determines our eternal
destiny. If you want to live forever after you die, don't wait till
after you die to make that decision." |
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- Goal Setting: Planning and Execution
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How to Take Them from Sedentary to Active
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New Research on Vitamin A Supplementation
- The New IFPA Bodybuilding Instructor Certification
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Men vs.
Women
12/17/04 |
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article by
Dr. Wayne L. Westcott
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New Bodybuilding Certification & Research on Rep Ranges
11/23/04 |
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"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." - Henry Ford
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Urgent Medical News
12/08/04 |
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"The
ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short
term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is an
indispensable
pre-requisite for success." - Brian Tracy
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Golf Training
11/12/04 |
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article by Dr. Wayne L. Westcott |
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Abdominal Training, 7 New CEC's and a New Certification
10/26/04 |
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"Confidence doesnt come out of nowhere. Its a result of
something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and
dedication."
- Roger Staubach
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Club Industry and NOCA / NCCA update
10/21/04 |
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"You must have courage to bet on your
ideals, to take the calculated risk, and act. Everyday living requires
courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness ." - Maxwell Malty
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Triceps Training
10/05/04 |
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"Patience and perseverance have a
magical effect before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Quincy Adams
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Triceps
Training: How to develop the "HORSESHOE"
-
Reminders
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Winner of
Bowflex Machine
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Jack LaLanne's Birthday Announcement
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News From the IFPA
10/04/04 |
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"He who reigns within himself and rules his
passions, desires and fears is more than a king." - John Milton |
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Squats are the "King of All Exercises"!
09/24/04 |
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"Nothing
can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal.
Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson
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News on
NOCA / NCCA Accreditation Process
09/10/04 |
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"Control Your Destiny or Somebody Else
Will."
- Jack Welch
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Fitness By the Bay
08/20/04 |
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"In
the power to change yourself, is the power to change the world around
you."
-
Anwar Sadat |
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Nutrition News: Atkin's Diet
08/11/04 |
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"The
state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of
your mind ." -
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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How and why do Americans become obese?
08/06/04 |
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"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years
ago. The second best time is now."
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Be
Resilient!
07/28/04 |
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"Resiliency is the art of learning to repeatedly refuse to do anything
else other than rise again after any and all setbacks!" -
Brian G. Jett
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News From the Government
07/23/04 |
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"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."
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Motivational Words and New Research on Exercise
07/15/04 |
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"God gives every bird its food, but does not
always drop it into the nest."
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Letter From the President
07/07/04 |
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"Always bear in mind, that your own
resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing." - Abraham
Lincoln
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Honesty
07/02/04 |
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"There are no secrets to success. It is the
result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin
Powell
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Nutrition News: Supplements
06/24/04 |
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"A fellow doesnt last long on what he
has done. He has to keep on delivering."
- Carl Hubbell
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IFPA Poll:
Developing our Certifications / CEC's
06/21/04 |
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"When your desires
are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to
achieve." - Napoleon Hill
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Nutrition and Exercise News
06/18/04 |
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"It is not the critic
who counts or the man who points out where the strong man stumbled and
fell, but the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is covered
with dust and mud and blood."
- Theodore Roosevelt |
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A Healthier United States
06/11/04 |
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"You may have a fresh
start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not
falling down, but staying down ." - Mary
Pickford |
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News for Veterans and News on the Obesity Epidemic
06/09/04 |
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"There is no scarcity of opportunity
to make a living at what you love to do; there is only scarcity of
resolve to make it happen ." - Wayne Dyer |
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Website Renovations
06/02/04 |
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"I believe that in each of us lies the unawakened strength to live the life we most desire ."
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- The
IFPA website is your website
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The Most Difficult Part of Getting to the Top of the Ladder
05/26/04 |
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"The most difficult
part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through
the crowd at the bottom."
- Arch Ward |
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- The Jim Bell Ultimate Stability Ball Crunch
- News on Nutrition:
Aspartame, Chocolate, Coffee, and Eggs
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Security Is
Mostly A Superstition
05/10/04 |
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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does
not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience
it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright
exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." - Helen Keller |
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Failure Is A Choice Made By The Undisciplined
04/30/04 |
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"Failure is a choice made
by the undisciplined. Failing to meet your objectives, regardless of
what they are, is a choice, because something else has been given higher
priority ." - Vic Conant |
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- IFPA Success Stories
-
Physio Ball Height Chart
-
Looking for IFPA Faculty Instructors
- Formula for Success
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It isn't the money. It's the hunger, the desire, and it's hard to turn it off.
04/23/04 |
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"It isnt the money.
Its the hunger, the desire, and its hard to turn it off. Its about
pride, and its about ego." - Chris Evert |
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- Your Personal Drive
for Excellence
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2003 Ifpa
Fitness Professionals Awards
04/13/04 |
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The Results Have Been Tabulated.... |
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- IFPA Group Fitness
Instructor of the Year
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IFPA Personal Trainer of the
Year
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IFPA Fitness Director of the
Year
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IFPA Faculty Instructor of
the Year
- The First Inductee to
the IFPA Fitness Hall of Fame
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Dont let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
04/05/04 |
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"Dont let what you
cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
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- Training Special
Populations
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12
Reasons Every Adult Should Strength Train
03/25/04 |
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article b y Dr. Wayne L. Westcott
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- Positive Physiological Responses to Basic Programs of Strength Exercise
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Words To Live By
03/15/04 |
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"Work like the whole world is watching,
dance like no one is watching, sing like no one is listening, love like
you have never been hurt, live like its heaven on earth." |
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- Supplements:
Glutamine
- Business Tips:
Getting
Referrals
- Training Tips:
World's Greatest Thigh Exercise
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"Three Great Essentials
to Achieve Anything Worthwhile...."
03/09/04 |
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"Three great essentials to achieve
anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick- to-itiveness; third, common
sense." - Thomas Edison |
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- Hoodia
Gordonii (H/G)
-
Globesity
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"Do Your Work with Your
Whole Heart and
You Will Succeed..." 03/01/04 |
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"Do your work with
your whole heart and you will succeed theres so little competition . "
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The Impossible is
Often the Untried 02/19/04 |
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"The impossible is often the untried."
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Lombardi
01/27/04 |
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"But I firmly believe that any mans finest hour his greatest
fulfillment to all he holds dear is that moment when he has to work
his heart out in a good cause and hes exhausted on the field of battle
victorious." - Vince Lombardi |
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Senior Fitness
11/26/03 |
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Did you know? |
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- 15 Points You Need to
Know About Senior Fitness
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Strength
Training Benefits 11/14/03 |
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article by Dr. Wayne Westcott |
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- The First Step in Reaching the Sedentary
-
Health Benefits of Strength Training
-
Teach to Reach
- New Senior Fitness
Instructor Certification
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Secrets to Happiness 11/07/03 |
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By Jim Bell, PhDc., President - IFPA |
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Supporting Optimal Liver Health
11/04/03 |
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Your liver is the number one line of defense against all toxins that
enter your body. |
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- Vital Nutrients
for Optimal Liver Health
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Creatine Does NOT
Cause Dehydration 10/31/03 |
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Journal of Strength Cond. Res. 15:395-400, 2001 |
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- Recent Research from
Memphis State University
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Aches & Pains: The Rigors of Training & Competition
10/24/03 |
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Joint injuries do far more then just cause pain... |
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Nutrients Vital
for Active Recovery 10/17/03 |
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The key is Maximum
Recovery. |
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Eat to Grow - Solving the Post Workout
Eating Puzzle 10/08/03 |
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The
most critical nutritional period for muscle growth is the post workout
meal. |
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The Calf
09/24/03 |
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Every Body's Notorious Slow
Gainer |
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More Secrets of Fat Loss
09/15/03 |
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"I am only one. But still I
am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
I will not refuse to do something I
can do." - Helen Keller |
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Secrets of Fat Loss
09/09/03 |
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"Someone elses success is proof that it can
happen to you. "
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-
Examining the 3-Apple-A-Day
Plan
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Small Things Can Make a Big
Difference
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Health Note on Heart Disease
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Answers to
Perplexing Personal Training Questions
09/03/03 |
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From IFPA President Jim
Bell, PhDc.
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The Doctors of Tomorrow
08/26/03 |
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The
Fitness and Nutrition Experts of Today Will Become the Doctors of
Tomorrow. |
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- Battle of the Bulge
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Medical Community
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Children's Fitness
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Take Action Today!
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Beneficial Advice for Any Age
08/21/03 |
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"A difficult time can be more readily endured if
we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose a cause
to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve."
- John Maxwell
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- "11 Things You Did Not Learn
in School" - Charles Sykes
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Recommended Reading for Personal
Development 08/18/03 |
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"If I have accomplished anything, it is
because I have stood on the shoulders of Giants!" - Sir Isaac Newton
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In Sports: Speed and Power are
Omnipotent 05/07/03 |
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From Jim Bell, PhDc., President, IFPA
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