Weight Training Percentages & Personal Training

  Weight Training Percentages Percentages in personal training can be absolutely invaluable.  However, they need to be incorporated correctly in order to get the benefit out of them.  One thing to think about, are percentages necessary for your clients? Nearly every strength and conditioning coach in the country relies on percentages to enforce desired intensities

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Single Leg Training Progressions

  Single leg training is extremely important in all populations, from bodybuilders to elderly and even elite athletes.  We all know life takes place one step at a time, and this alone is a reason to knock out a few sets of single leg movements.  However, research has shown a single leg movement will produce

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Why Microsoft Excel?

  There are COUNTLESS programs out there designed for personal trainers, many of them have all sorts of software included and can do all sorts of other fancy things such as scheduling, client information and storage etc, so you may be wondering why did we choose to use Excel for our personal training templates? Well,

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Personal Client Track 101

So you got a new client, and looking for the best, seamless way to bring them in, get them better, and have them leave with results?  Simple, follow this formula: 1. Evaluate the client.  Learn their wants, needs, physical condition, goals, preferences, and diet habits. 2. Test the client.  You NEED before/pre training numbers to

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Not Your Everyday Personal Training Template

Many people who come to this site find us via google.  But did you know our templates offer so much more than meets the eye?  Not only are the templates designed with the personal trainer and fitness professional in mind, it offers a lot of long term options.  No more needing a new sheet of

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Announcement: Strength & Conditioning Upgrades are here!

Did you know we do fully custom strength and conditioning excel spreadsheets?  Whether you are a university or private sector facility looking to substantially upgrade your training quality, check out our custom training spreadsheets!  We offer a pre-set level 1 upgrade, available here:   http://www.exceltrainingdesigns.com/collections/strength-and-conditioning/products/strength-and-conditioning-excel-template-upgrade-level-1 The next level up, ideal for team options, is our

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Functional Movement Screen (FMS) Excel Templates

If you are a coach, trainer, or functional movement specialist, we have something available for you.   Check out our products at http://www.exceltrainingdesigns.com/collections/fms to see some of the things we can offer to assist with your FMS training! In addition, one of our most popular template upgrades is to have the FMS corrective columns put directly

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Considerings in Building a Strength & Conditioning Program

One thing a lot of people ask is how to structure or design the individual microcycles of a proper strength and conditioning program.  Everyone has a method and reason of how they design individual programs that add up to be a full strength and conditioning program, and here is one option I find effective. The

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Using Grouping in Excel

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]One of the most simple things you can do in Excel, and will help clean up your workout cards significantly, is to use "Grouping".  This is a feature that allows you to effectively close off cells that are unnecessary to be seen or, more importantly for a coaches perspective, to print.  For example, I use

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