Do Your Training Sessions Have a Purpose?
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By Sal | March 10, 2010
Personal trainers and strength coaches are not valets, our job is not to hand clients weights, adjust the seat and weight stacks on equipment or simply teach and correct exercise technique. Our job is to improve clients’ fitness and capability level and do this in the most efficient and effective way possible.
Do not make distinctions between athletes and non-athletes in developing a training philosophy and designing training sessions. Regular Joes and Janes need to work on the same fundamental skills that are used in the training sessions of athletes. Actually, non-athletes have a greater need to work on athletic skills precisely because they do not compete or engage in regular athletic activities, thereby missing out on valuable training stimulus.
Clients who aren’t involved in athletics or don’t consider themselves to be athletic need to be challenged by performing exercises that require speed, strength stamina, agility and skill and training sessions should be designed to help clients develop this wide range of skills. By training movements and not muscles clients can become more athletic and improve their fitness and capability levels.
Using machines and training muscles individually – isolation training popularized by body building – ignores the role that gravity plays in everyday existence; this kind of training doesn’t prepare the body for the rigors of life and/or athletics. Help clients become as athletic as possible and they will improve their performance and fitness levels, while reducing the likelihood of injuries.
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