There have been several articles lately on fitness coaching and personal trainers in Singapore. They question the knowledge and ability of personal trainers and they question the lack of standardization in the education of trainers.

And so do I!

After all, your personal trainer is going to help you take care of your body just like a medical doctor would. So it makes sense that a personal trainer needs to know enough about your body to help you get the results that you want from your fitness program.

Education is vital to me. I spend an average of 10 hours per week learning better ways to help out fitness bootcamp and personal training clients get great results.

In fact I just came back from 16 continuous days of seminars with the best coaches, doctors and physiotherapists in the world. We discussed the latest improvements in helping back pain, osteoporosis, PMS, kids training, nutrition, detoxification from plastics, heavy metals and excess estrogen, strength and speed training for sports, stress management, and many more things. The pictures on this post are from this trip.

Just the fact that it is a gathering of those who are the tops in the health industry helps because even the informal meals and training sessions are a chance to learn from each other.

The knowledge and information is worth the 30 (36 with delay!!) hour plane rides and the sub zero temperatures.

classroom lessons (this one is about shoulder health)

Canadian National Weightlifting Coach Pierre Roy

Our Demonstrators For Olympic Lifting. At the Left Olympian Marilou and Canadian champion Paul

Advanced Stretching Techniques

36 hours travel... including 6 hours waiting for this plane!

Learning about pain caused by internal organ dysfunction

I will be away for more than 2 weeks starting tomorrow. I will be another set of 25-30 hour trips to the Rhode Island where the temperature is currently -2 to -8 deg C… I’m not even sure I have the right clothes for this! But its ok:) all for the love of knowledge.

There will be a series of seminars about various topics.

• Training of special warfare guys like body guards and commandos (and learning the best methods for handling shift work!)
• Special considerations for training females
• Special considerations for training kids
• Developing power for sports
• Healing back injuries FAST (80% of people will have back pain some time in their life)
• Training Busy Executives (lots of these in Singapore!)
• Anatomy
• How to do better nutrition consultations.

Do I think I’m currently BAD at these things… probably not… but these courses are taught by various instructors who are at the top of their field in the world! So I know I have much to learn. Braving the cold will be a small price to pay.

This is why the clients in our fitness training, performance training and Singapore fitness bootcamps get such great results (check out the mens and womens testimonial page or the video on my Singapore personal trainer homepage).

Study, experience and practice.Put them together and you get results!

Unfortunately most personal trainers in Singapore work with only a few clients at a time. But at my center, my staff and I work with over 160 clients at one time. We have their nutrition information, their flexibility and body fat measurements, their health indicators and their training program logs. This means we know with great certainty what works and what does not.

Education is continuous, and it will always be! For this week…my reading list includes: Healing with the herbs of life by Lesley Tierra – I believe in nutrition based healing so this is an interesting book. kind of thick though with a long list of herbal remedies. The bible cure for thyroid disorders by Don Colbert – many people have thyroid defficiency so im interested what the bible has to say about that!