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my philosophy...
Total fitness
My philosophy begins with total fitness. The human body
is an amazing and complex organism, and requires a variety
of training approaches for it to function optimally.
Fitness is not just a slim waist and toned muscles,
it is a strong and healthy heart and lungs, flexible
muscles that allow a full and stable range of motion,
muscular endurance to perform tasks over a long period,
muscular strength to cope with heavy loads, core stability
of the stomach and back to ensure good posture and alignment,
speed, agility and balance to get the most out of life.
And crucially, total fitness includes mental fitness.
Neglect any single aspect of total fitness and you will
sabotage your goals. Explore the following pages to
learn more about each aspect of total fitness.
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Sound priorities
To achieve total fitness, you need sound priorities.
Compared to other things you do in your daily life,
achieving total fitness takes relatively little time.
Yet 'lack of time' is the most common excuse not to
exercise. There are 168 hours in a week - you only need
to devote 3 to 5 hours a week to your fitness. Everyone
can do this, it's just a question of priorities. Is
watching television more important than your health?
If your time really is limited, it's easy to put off
going to a gym because you have to travel there and
back, so the one hour turns into 2 or 3. With me as
your personal trainer, you don't have to travel anywhere
- I will come to you - saving you valuable time.
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Steady and continuous improvement
The most effective strategy to achieving total fitness
is to aim for steady and continuous improvement over
your lifetime. This is the best way to ensure that a
healthy lifestyle becomes second nature, and to ensure
that the improvements you make are permanent improvements.
No more crash diets, no more quick fixes. Steady progress
is safer too. Any attempt at radical overnight change
leaves you vulnerable to the risk of injury.
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Progressive overload
Your training sessions should become gradually more
demanding over time. The body becomes accustomed to
the same resistance or length of time you perform an
exercise or its intensity. So you need to keep pushing
the body to progressively higher levels of resistance,
duration and intensity. Most people who train without
the benefit of a personal trainer will approach their
sessions in a haphazard way, unplanned, with mostly
guesswork as to the correct resistance, duration and
intensity of their sessions. They either over do it
and injure themselves, or don't work hard enough and
make no progress. I will prescribe an effective plan
uniquely designed for you, and motivate you to stick
to it!
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Variety
This ensures you train as many muscle groups as possible,
and ensures you achieve total fitness. Our bodies need
to be trained at a variety of intensity, speed, resistance,
and at a variety of angles. Only a systematic plan will
ensure you get the right variety in your programme.
For online training, see
www.Fitness4London.com
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