Holistic ? Part 3 :: Nashville Personal Trainer - Life Fitness Academy

The breakdown of how fitness should be.

Over the years, my experience as a personal trainer has brought about many challenges that have given me the practical knowledge of the sometimes-fragile human body. One of the repetitive issues that come through this gym is injury. Injuries plague us as individuals, more so when fitness isn?t a part of your life. The case could also be made for the same frequency of injuries in the fit clients. When trying to approach the body holistically with my clients, I have let these years of experience educate me into prevention. Instead of waiting for the new client to come in with their exercise prescriptions, which they were given from the physical therapist, we integrate fitness that is in itself, physical therapy. This is how we define prevention and further more, holistic personal training.

I know that it?s hard to understand at first?so I will give you a day in the life?as I plan a workout for a healthy, pain-free client.

First session:
*10-15 minutes of discussion and relationship building. This time helps us form realistic goals and assess fitness levels.
*5-7 minute warm up. During this time we listen and learn from the conversation as a client warms up walking, rowing, or pedaling on a bike. You can hear a lot about a person with just a little bit of conversation while they are under a bit of stress physically.

Fitness assessment:
Now we put the rubber to the road if you will. This assessment is usually done using body weight or plyometric activity, lightly testing the limits of an individual. Whether strong or weak, the client suddenly starts to remember things that they forgot to tell you initially. Maybe it?s tennis elbow or a car accident that has left them less than confident in their ability to hold a wall sit for 1 minute. Take notes and apply them to the workout plan.

What I want you to see here is our diligence in learning your body. This process is essential and each Life Fitness Academy trainer does it slightly different, but very well. I will always start a client in isometrics, whether just for learning?s sake or for healing it?s a foundational set of exercises. Having the client learn these exercises will assist me in teaching them how to correctly engage the muscles moving forward into muscle building. This training graduates into resistance training, keying in on strength through stability and supportive-connective tissue. Now we have a strong foundation?right down to bone density that we didn?t have before! This foundation will allow us to move forward into using our bodies for resistance better known as body weight training-plyometric exercises. From here we graduate into some weight-lifting (if desired by the client).

Applying these tricks with the other parts of our holistic approach to the body through the business model we have set up IS what makes us different.

Other posts in the series:
Holistic ? Part 1
Holistic ? Part 2

Source: http://www.lifefitness-academy.com/2013/01/14/holistic-part-3/

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