053 The UN-FITness Industry
Definition of fitness in 100 words:
Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports. ~Coach Greg Glassman, CrossFit Founder and CEO (Courtesy of CrossFit Inc.)
The 10 components of fitness:
1. Cardiovascular / Respiratory Endurance
2. Stamina
3. Strength
4. Flexibility
5. Power
6. Speed
7. Coordination
8. Agility
9. Balance
10. Accuracy
Fitness has always been a huge part of my life, from a young age I had been involved in sports teams and regularly ran x-country. Upon reaching sixteen I started training within a gym, through this journey I became fascinated with how the body worked and spent endless hours reading magazines on training methodologies, anatomy and all sorts of (at the time) fitness fads.
Personal training was a natural progression, I qualified as a fitness instructor in 2009 and from there worked within various sectors of the industry, these included private health clubs, spas and large corporate gyms increasing my experience and knowledge along the way. In 2010 I was giving the opportunity to partake in a personal training qualification, this for me was something which I had expected to do many years down the line so am forever grateful for this helping hand, within this course we worked with members of the public who had volunteered to be Guiney Pigs for the day, we spent evening with face to face tuition and all helped each other with any sticking points, this is something which you do not receive with many courses nowadays which are short, inexpensive and all online.
Upon qualifying as a personal training it became very clear to me that there wasn’t a one-size fits all client, that I was going to face many different body shapes, goals and fitness levels, also that my own training was no longer priority and that it also had to change. Within time I gradually moved away from just grunt/shunt weights training and started to look at my own body from a holistic point of view, I started to find my weak areas and made sure to even things out, making sure to include running, yoga, cycling and gymnastics. This exploration led me to CrossFit of which opened my eyes to a world of variance and at times complete annoyance, CrossFit forces you to try new things, find what your not good at and improve, aging working holistically and not staying single track minded.
You never know what client your going to take on or what their goal maybe, to run a marathon, to increase maximal strength or to achieve a single pull-up, if you as a trainer cannot do either to some degree you are failing your industry, the FITNESS industry, next time you are looking at reaching out for hep make sure the trainer you work with has a level of understanding and competence in fitness, not just by how the look or the sales pitch they give and if you are a personal FITNESS trainer reading this, look in the mirror and ask yourself the question, who is more important, the client or me?
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Cirencester Personal Trainer
Apex Athletic - Unit 7
Esland Place - Love Lane
Cirencester - GL7 1YG
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