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Archive for February, 2010
Personal Trainer – Mobility Drills for Joint Health
Feb 24th
Personal Trainer – Mobility Drills
I’m like a bus, they don’t come for ages and suddenly two come at the same time! I said yesterday that I would talk about mobility training a little more so that’s what I’ll discuss in this blog. In my personal training plan I do about 10 minutes of mobility exercises when I wake up each morning and then another 10 to warm up for my actual sessions. So what is the idea behind mobility training then?
Well there are two aspects of joint health, the first of which most people are well aware of. This is the flexibility of the muscles surrounding the joints. If the muscles surrounding a joint are tight then the joint will have less range of motion. The classic example here is when a person can’t touch their toes they have tight hamstrings and lower back muscles. This is also observable in people with poor posture. Rounded shoulders are due to chronically tight chest and shoulder muscles. It is common knowledge that if you stretch the muscles you increase the range of motion at the joint. What people don’t know is that conventional stretching is very ineffective at getting the job done. I’ll discuss stretching more at a later date. If you need to know now then get in touch and make an appointment!
Personal trainer – Personal Training Plan
Feb 23rd
Whats My Personal Training Plan?
Wow so for much for my plan to keep regularly updating you guys about my progress. I’ve been run off my feet and not had time to sit down and get typing properly. The last month has been spent developing my online Metabolic Typing program and now for the first time I’m offering Metabolic Typing to non training clients. Also the modelling seems to have picked up again so I’ve been back and forth to London quite a lot. Who said being a personal trainer is easy? Well me normally, but that’s because I enjoy what I do and gain an enormous amount of satisfaction from seeing people transform themselves and improve their health. Sorry I digress!
Today I’m going to discuss my training or the focus of my training at the moment. From my last blog you will know that my primary concern is with improving my conditioning for tennis. You will also know from my last blog that I have picked up a few injuries recently, so my priority is to reduce my risk of injury in order to improve my level of conditioning. To achieve this I have been forced to drastically change my training regime. I’m still training 3-5 times a week but the focus on increasing my flexibility. Flexibility training is something that I have often neglected because I don’t tend to enjoy it, but I have made a real effort this time to stick to my plan. I’m also doing about 15 minutes of mobility training after waking up.