Oral bacteria and heart health: why gum inflammation can affect the heart
Oral bacteria can promote inflammation in the arteries and thus favour cardiovascular disease. Why good oral health also protects your heart.
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Lipedema treatment: 4 steps to less pain and more quality of life
Lipedema treatment: 4 steps to less pain and more quality of life: 4 steps to a holistic lipedema treatment. Discover how nutrition, exercise and …
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How does the heart adapt to training? Heart volume, intensity and the athlete's heart explained
Your heart is a muscle and adapts too: what lies behind the athlete's heart, and how endurance, interval and strength training differ in their effect.
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Fitness Trainer B-Licence in Switzerland: What's In It for Me?
The classic A, B and C licences do not exist in the Swiss education system, and online certificates disappoint at renowned centres. What counts instead.
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Understanding arteriosclerosis: what we know today about the formation of vascular deposits
Plaques in the vessel wall consist of fats, inflammatory cells and connective tissue, later also calcium. How they narrow vessels and cost elasticity.
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Losing belly fat: 3 myths and what really works
Hundreds of crunches a day do nothing for the little roll around the middle, and no trick does it overnight. What science says about healthy weight loss.
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Career change to fitness trainer: making a fresh start from age 30
Too old at 30 or 40? The industry is looking for exactly your profile, and your age is an advantage. Which training you need, and what the switch asks.
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Pilates instructor training in Switzerland: requirements, structure & career opportunities
Turn your passion into a profession with a Pilates training in Switzerland! Learn all about the requirements, structure and career opportunities.
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Becoming a fitness trainer in Switzerland: requirements, costs & career
Demand for qualified professionals keeps growing in Switzerland. Which requirements you need to bring, which training counts and what costs to expect.
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Becoming Self-Employed as a Personal Trainer
Five essential steps from your licence to your own business, beginning with your niche, in a market with high purchasing power and fierce competition.
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The 5 most important qualities a group fitness instructor needs
What captivates a class is almost never the choreography, but the person at the front. Which requirements and qualities make the difference up there.
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Becoming a fitness trainer on the side: how to combine training and job
Möchtest du nebenberuflich Fitnesstrainer werden? Erfahre, wie du als Nebengewerbe ein zweites Standbein aufbaust und Ausbildung und Vollzeitjob vereinst.
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Cruciate ligament rupture: can a torn cruciate ligament heal without surgery?
Surgery was long considered almost unavoidable. Studies now describe conditions under which the anterior cruciate ligament shows self-healing potential.
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How much does a Personal Trainer earn in Switzerland?
Employed or self-employed makes the biggest difference to your income. Realistic figures on the Personal Trainer salary, and what drives it upwards.
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Are compound exercises really necessary for building muscle?
Compound exercises involve several joints at once and are often called indispensable. Training physiology shows they help, but are not strictly required.
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Amino acids, BCAAs or protein – what's the difference?
There are 20 proteinogenic amino acids, nine of them essential. What that means for protein powder, BCAAs and the question of whether you need both.
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Deepening training control – how the Karvonen formula refines your intensity zones
Zones based on maximum heart rate work well, but the heart rate reserve goes one step further. How the Karvonen formula makes your intensities personal.
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Understanding training control – why your body awareness is just as important as numbers
Not too easy, not too hard: adaptations depend on how you are loaded, not just how often. How to plan time, intensity and duration deliberately.
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Interference in training – when strength and endurance stimuli affect each other
Interference becomes relevant when one muscle gets intense strength and endurance work within a short time. Why clear training goals matter most here.
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Cellular detoxification: how your body really deals with toxins
Not juice cures: in three phases your body recognises, converts, binds and excretes substances. The role of liver and mitochondria, and what supports them.
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Supercompensation – why your body becomes stronger through training
A training stimulus disturbs your homeostasis: stores empty, structures take microscopic damage. Why your body then builds beyond the original level.
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How does the muscle work? Structure, fibre types & adaptation through training
Agonist, antagonist, synergist: muscles work as a team, never in isolation. How structure, fibre types and contraction shape adaptation to training.
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Myokines – why muscles can do far more than just produce force
Since 2007 it has been clear that working muscle releases messengers into the blood. What myokines do for metabolism, inflammation and the brain.
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The USA updates its dietary recommendations 2025-2030 - a possible turning point?
For the first time the focus shifts to unprocessed foods, with less refined sugar, white flour and additives. What the change of course means for Europe.
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