HOW DO GYMS KNOW HOW TO TRAIN ME

            How do gyms know how to train me?

Good Question, for some one wanting to join our gym and get a bit fitter or lose some weight it’s fairly straight forward, we do a health screen, fitness evaluation, lifestyle habits, and your goals.

Health screen is fairly self explanatory, Fitness evaluation helps us decide where to start you, Life style habits gives us an idea how many times a week you can train from 1day a week up, if it doesn’t fit in with your lifestyle you will drop off .Your Goals are what you want to achieve, at Flex it we are careful to set you up for success not disappointment.

When your just starting out you will find you will get some very good results in the first 3 months of being at the gym as your body and mind adjust to the new stimulus.

But what about the advanced athlete? be it a footy player or female playing netball or sprinter, bike rider and all the other different kinds of sport.

I usually find these type of Athletes in a gym doing a weights program similar to every one else seeing how much they can lift or running on a treadmill for fitness. What I am getting at is, Dale is a good example brought in to town to play Footy for one of the clubs. Dale wanted to hit the weights and get into it, most fitness clubs would let him go for it but lets think about this for a minute.

Dale weighs around a solid 90kg low body fat can bench press 200 pound (sorry I still use pound for weight training) will his footy game benefit from him getting stronger? I doubt it.

When we have an Athlete like Dale come to us for a sports specific programme the first thing that must be done is an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the athlete otherwise you cannot put a correct programe together.

So we apply a series of tests to the Athlete that are specific to that persons sport. So for Footy we would test

·         Muscular endurance

·         Muscular power

·         Agility

·         Co ordination

·         Flexibility

·         Core stability

For each of these areas we have a specific set of activities where we score the Athlete from 1 to 5.

This is then plotted

 Dale is strong in Muscular power, Agility, co-ordination. But quite lacking in flexibility, core stability and Muscular endurance. So how are we going to improve his game? You guessed it train in these areas. The red line on a plot indicates the average for the team so in team sports you can benchmark your player’s strengths in relation to the team. We would then work out his periodisation that’s another whole article.

Talking of quality trainers Flexit would like to welcome Jenny Garrett to the team Jens been in the industry since 1980.

Jen has competed in physique and figure competitions for 10 years competition teaches a trainer how to get results and believe me Jen knows how to shape your body.

Jens mantra is to change a person’s life for ever. She believes that every person has the right to feel good about them selves.Jen says the satisfaction she gets from helping a person achieve is why she truly loves what she does. Good on you Jen!

Try Jens tummy bums and thighs fit ball classes you will love it.

If you need help getting results with your training contact us here at flex it and I am sure we can get you on the right track.