What Is a Personal Trainer?
A professional personal trainer is someone who has
the expertise, educational background and diagnostic know-how
to design an individualized exercise program. Once your
trainer has found out what your goals are, he or she can
tailor a program to help you achieve them. With a trainer's
guidance, you can maximize your results in a minimal amount
of time.
What's a Training Session Like?
At the beginning of your first private exercise
session and consultation, your trainer will discuss
your fitness goals. Your goals will be as individual
as your are. By taking into account what you most want
to achieve, your trainer can design a program that
is just right for you. Together you will set long-
and short-term goals.
Your first session will include questions and assessment
tests to give your trainer an idea of your "starting
point" in the areas of cardiovascular fitness,
muscular strength and endurance, joint flexibility
and body fat composition. Once you know where you're
starting from and where you want to go, you can chart
your route and measure your progress along the way.
What are the benefits?
Why do you need a trainer? Can't you get results just
by going into the fitness center and working out
on your own?
Motivation. It takes more than state-of-the-art
equipment to reach your fitness goals. You have to
exercise regularly and make each exercise session count.
A trainer will help you develop the incentive to stick
to your exercise plan.
Guidance. A trainer's expertise enables him
or her to customize an exercise program, making it
specific to your goals. One size does not fit all!
Plus, your trainer will teach you correct form, which
will maximize efficiency and effectiveness, and minimize
the chance of injury. Finally, as your fitness improves,
your trainer will fine-tune your program to meet your
changing needs and make sure you continue to get results.
Convenience. Don't have the time to exercise?
You and your trainer can figure out a schedule that
will work for you. Together, you can also brainstorm
ways to overcome the other obstacles that stand between
you and your goals.
BENEFITS
OF PRIVATE STRETCHING LESSONS:
While there are many benefits to be gained from
attending a group stretching, yoga or Pilate's
class, an ideal way for many people is to learn
stretching, yoga, Pilate's & develop a personal
practice is through a private consultation.
In a private session, with your trainer, your
individual needs will be discussed and assessed. From
this, an individual practice of postures and breathing
will be developed and taught. Individual
needs to be considered might include general
health, specific injuries or conditions, age,
strength, flexibility and life circumstances.
Additional reasons to consider private
training are:
- Privacy
- Personal Attention
- Development of a personal practice for your
individual needs
- Specific therapeutic benefits for injury,
illness, stress and emotion difficulties.
Private lessons may also include two - five
people - a great way to learn with a partner
or friend.
TOP TEN REASON TO TRY!
1. Boost flexibility and reduce
injury
2. Control breathing and meditation
3. The mind-body connection
4. Strength and energy
5. Fewer muscle imbalance
6. Better balance
7. Perfect Posture
8. Increase body awareness
9. Stress relief
10. Crosstraining
Contact Ms. Keely if you have interest
in these types of sessions, or have a
small group interest. |
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TOP 10 FITNESS MYTHS - AMERICAN
COUNCIL OF EXERCISE!
MYTH BUSTIN'
American Council Of Exercise
(1) Women
who lift weights get bulky.
Women do
not have enough testosterone to develop large,
bulky muscles. Strength training will
not cause women to build muscles, although steroids
might.
(2) Spot
reducing is possible.
It's not
possible to burn fat off in one area. Only regular
exercise, cardio and weight training can melt
fat.
(3) No
pain, No gain.
You do not need to feel pain to know it's working. Feeling
your breath working is fine, feeling an injury
coming on is not!
(4) If
you exercise, you can eat anything.
A
healthy diet goes hand in hand with fitness in
order for you to see physical results. If
you're looking to lose weight, eat more lean meat,
fruit and veggies and avoid sugars and fried food. (simple
answer)
(5) There's
a pill or magic bullet out there.
There's
no quick fix, says ACE. Those
nutritional supplements often use deceptive, misleading
or fraudulent advertising. |
WHY YOU NEED TO MAKE
TIME FOR WEIGHTS!
Nearly 20 percent of women now
strength train
twice per week, slightly more than
the 17.5 percent who pumped iron in 2004, according
to research
from the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and
Prevention. That's great,
but it also means 80 percent
of your still are no lifting regularly.
Here are a few HEALTH
incentives to maybe give you
the nudge you need to start your
strength regime twice per week!
- You will stave
off osteoporosis. Resistance training increases
bone density, which can prevent
age - related loss.
- You will keep
your metabolism revved. Muscle trumps
fat for calorie burning - add more,
burn more.
- You will look
fitter, trimmer, slimmer. Pound for pound,
muscle takes up less space than
fat. Boost muscle and you
will appear thinner.
- You will gain
confidence from the inside out!
Not only
the physical effects but knowing
you are building strength
and you will feel confident about
your body. |
WEIGHTY
TRUTHS
Lifting weights is a good for you: it can lower
blood pressure
and improve cholesterol levels, according to
the American Council
of Exercise. So why aren't more of us
doing it? Probably because
there are many misconceptions about it. To
set things straight;
Myth: Strength training will
make me big and bulky.
Truth: Lifting Weights
should make you look smaller.
Muscle is highly metabolic so the more you have,
the more
calories your will burn. You would have
to train like a
professional body builder and use performance-enhancing
supplements to even begin to notice muscle bulk. Plus,
most women don't produce enough testosterone
to get
really big.
Myth: Only athletes benefit from
strength training.
Truth: Lifting weights
can benefit anyone. Most importantly
it increases bone density, reducing the risk
of osteoporosis.
Myth: If you do Pilate's and yoga,
you don't need to life weights.
Truth: Although Pilate's
builds core strength and yoga increases
flexibility, neither overloads the muscles enough
to give you
the same benefits as strength training
IT IS NEVER TO LATE TO START, TO
LEARN, TO GET STRONGER TO CHANGE! |
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