Some of the client success stories and common question about my approach to personal training have been asked.
Sample Success Stories
Body transformation – there are arrange of goals. The programme can be adapted to a range of transformation goals.
Weight loss – one of the common goals for male and female clients. Target weight have been achieved along with body transformation. Specific examples include dress size 18 down to 14; belt size 42 down to 36. As well as the health and esteem benefits this is also an enabler for specific activities that are weight dependent – great motivation.
Toning – not everyone wants big muscles. Toning and firming have the obvious physical desire but also injury prevention.
Professional Requirements – certain professions require certain physical attributes. One client had very fit cardio but was moving into a profession where strength was essential – literally could be a matter of life and death. A programme was created to safely develop strength to successfully pass the assessment phase and progress into this new career.
Join mainstream gym – surprises most people during the consultation when I ask if we want to set joining a mainstream gym as a goal. It initially seems that I am setting a goal that loses clients. That is not always the case – as most clients continue to come after they join a gym. My personal motivation is to aid you on your fitness journey. Programmes will include personal training and activities elsewhere.
I am also qualified to take indoor Group Cycle classes aka spin. One of the services I also offer is preparing clients for their first class. Group cycle is so addictive, low impact and an amazing calorie burn. It’s great for me as well as my clients when I see them in a spin class.
Youth Specialism – I am qualified to training youths (make sure your PT is) and do this with their parents. Youths have different fitness needs to adults and we need to be really careful. The look on kids’ faces is priceless when they meet a target and their parents’ pride. Youths have reported improvements in activities including football and basketball – as well as esteem.
Last and certainly not least one of the key benefits – mental well-being. The vast majority of client if not ALL comment on the effect from a mental perspective. Exercise is one of the best medicines. Everyone comes in with a smile on their face – looking forward to the next hour. One of my favourite conversations was with a client who had been coming for a few months and told me of a conversation that he had with his partner. He had said to her that he was going to continue with the personal training until they got married in about 6 months. Her response was an emphatic NO. You will be training after we are married because of the difference that it has made to your mental well-being – in case you have not realised it yet this is why I do this.
Approach
Firstly, before I start – training should be enjoyable and something that you will look forward to throughout the journey – there are no contracts so if this cannot be delivered you are free to look elsewhere. There are a wide range of activities that you can do. Feedback from day one is essential for user experience as well as maximising results. We will talk about this but forming habits is key to success. Achieving your goals is very emotional experience for both of us.
We start with a free consultation. This gives us the chance to gain information about you including previous exercise, understand and establish realistic, SUSTAINABLE goals. This will allow a programme to be tailored to your needs. It also gives you a chance to have a good look around the studio, ask questions to see if the service is what you want.
Training is customised for each client. Especially for those new / less experience to training, building techniques is one of the initial goals. Clear demonstrations and prompts will be given from days 1 – learning will be stress free. I train a range of abilities. As well as the mechanics of how to perform the exercise, posture and muscle definition is evaluated. Most people are left or right dominant (even those who are more experience). Therefore, exercise is tailored to correct this. For those who are interested we commonly look at doing a slow tempo with a lot of reps, at times using equipment / techniques that will isolate your right and left muscles. This helps build stabilisation endurance.
When you are ready and depending on the goals we then move onto my favourite phase, strength. This phase can be broken in sub phases and delivers general strength and if desirable muscle building. Here we tend to reduce the number of reps but increase the weight. We could include more advance training such as pyramid training and circuits (including Interval Weight Training – great calorie burn and enable a lot of work in a short period of time).
Obviously, this is a very basic summary. Throughout your journey there will be a lot of communication. Goals may change and this will be built into your programme.
Anyway I better stop typing – if you have any questions or would like top come in for that free consultation just send me a message.