Coronary Artery Disease – Tips for Personal Trainers

Personal Training can be a tricky trade when you are training a healthy client. Throw into the mix heart disease, such as coronary artery disease, and your challenges rise as does your increased liability.  Clients come to you for advice because you are the “professional” in this field.  Make it a point to learn about specific diseases or conditions that you discovered about your client during your initial interview PRIOR to putting them on a routine, working them out in the gym or providing other advice.  Unfortunately, some may assume that because they have purchase personal trainer liability insurance, they are protected from being sued. It is not a question as to if you will get sued, but when you will get sued. You always want to make sure that you have detailed documentation for all of your clients, because you don’t know which one it will be that is on the other side of the table.

An article that I just recently came across from NASPRO is the Key Points for the Personal Trainer and Clients with Coronary Artery Disease.  Make it a point to read articles such as this as well as the constantly changing research and developments found at the American Heart Association.

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