One thing that I try to do to the best of my abiltiy is client’s program designs. While it is true that an average program done with great effort is better than a great program done with a slack attitude, all things being equal if you are on the right program for YOU, your results will be alot quicker!
Training Program Design Is NOT like going to a buffet and picking bits from here and there
The general idea is that your body adapts best when it is adapting to only ONE or a FEW stressors at one time. For e.g. you can’t get really good at triathlons and really good at discus throwing at the same time.
If you do some of everything, you are going to end up with less than optimal results in everything.
Of course you will be better than an untrained person and any exercise is better than none at all but it would be kidding yourself to think that you can get as much benefits from an unfocused program as you can from a focused one.
Many programs try to do too much. And clients get sub optimal results.
There is a difference between a program that “makes me puke” and a program that “makes me better”.
I prefer to make clients better!
If I wanted to get more muscular AND better at a 2.4km run AND able to do more chinups AND lose some extra fat on my belly AND jump higher. I would do them ONE BY ONE while maintaining the qualities that I have alreay gained.
If my program has…
- Lots of chinups every day
- a few 2-5km runs
- fat loss burpee and kettlebell intervals
- some olympic lifts
- and plyometric jumps…
- All at the same time…
I will be… above average but disappointed.
But if I do specific phases of fat loss for 4 weeks, Olympic lifting and power training 4 weeks, muscle growth 4 weeks, Plyometrics 2-4 weeks, and then finally a few longer runs to boost my 2.4km run, these 4 months will be ALOT more useful than a mixture of random exercises trying to do everything at once.
This is the science of program design that is brought into all our personal training programs. Even our group class fitness bootcamps have these elements in their program design.
That’s why we can guarantee results while keeping you injury free!
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To be honest, I did not get the full picture till I click on the x-fit tag and it all fell into place. I must admit the programs you design are good ! Much more effective than my previous gyms or trainers.
Thank you Brenda. Program design is something that I really enjoy learning constantly about and I believe that your programs and those of the other clients are truly world class:)
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