Secrets for Coaching Active Agers

Secrets for Coaching Active Agers

Author: IDEA Health and Fitness Association April 5, 2021 Duration: 38:38

Today on the podcast, IDEA editor in chief Sandy Todd Webster talks with 2020 IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year, Leslee Bender. They cover Leslee's tips for working successfully with active agers and also discuss how habit change can help us to live, move and feel eternally young.

Links to contact Leslee Bender: FB & LI: Leslee Bender; website: www.bendertraining.com

Video replay of Leslee's webinar: Training the Dysfunctional Knee

Link to Leslee's Online Course: I Am Ageless Now

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Hosted by Sandy Todd Webster, Editor in Chief, IDEA Publications, ideafit.com; executive produced by Jordan Leeds; produced and engineered by Michael Hilding. Copyright 2021 by Outside Interactive, Inc.


Connect with Sandy Webster at FB: Sandy Todd Webster; IG: sandytoddwebster; LI: Sandy Todd Webster; TW: @fitnesseditor.


IDEA Health & Fitness Association is the world’s leading organization of fitness and wellness professionals and has been for more than 39 years. We deliver world-class content and continuing education to fitness professionals, business owners and allied health professionals via our publications, including the award-winning Fitness Journal; our fitness, business and nutrition conferences; and hundreds of streaming videos and online courses available on ideafit.com. Additionally, with IDEA FitnessConnect, we host the largest national industry-wide directory, linking over 275,000 fitness professionals to more than 40 million consumers. Through IDEA professionals in over 80 countries, we Inspire the World to Fitness!


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