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Value of a Personal Trainer: Hoani Siueva

Value of a Personal Trainer

By Hoani Siueva

Personal training gives you more results in less energy and less time.

Many people work out for years, expending large amounts of energy, on the wrong exercise program for their goals, the wrong fitness program for their body, incorrect exercise form and technique, and/ or not even being consistent on a fitness workout program – just doing whatever they feel like doing or their favorite workout exercises or workout routine.

Personal training tailors each of your fitness training workouts in such a way as to make your body adapt to the exercise activities in order to achieve your goal(s). Everybody is unique, and so is yours, from genetics, past history, injuries, etc. Personal trainers tailor each of your health fitness workouts for your unique body in order to accomplish the most results and ultimately achieve the best workouts for you.

Each personal training client has specific a goal, and usually more than one. Different fitness goals require different exercise workouts. For example, weight loss workouts are very different than muscle toning, bodybuilding, strength training, health fitness, or beauty fitness workouts. At times people are at times on the wrong exercise program for their goals. Personal trainers tailor each exercise program for your goals.

Personal trainers also balance your bodies’ muscles during each and every workout, while still focusing on accomplishing your fitness goals. You are as strong as your weakest link and the same holds true for muscles. If one muscle or joint is weaker with respect to the other connecting muscles, then that weaker muscle will hold you back, your workouts back, and will make you stagnate and plateau, sometimes for years. This balance can be corrected through efficient personal training.

So rather than just going through the motions and not getting as much out of your exercise workout as you could, consider working with a personal trainer. Make sure next year you don’t look the same as you did this year, with the same muscle imbalances and the same niggling injuries.

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Sport Motivation; Nicole Westrupp

Sport Motivation

Summary by Nicole Westrupp

Sport and exercise is all about passion, if you don’t enjoy something how can you achieve your goals, gain success and be the best that you can be if your heart is not in it?

Sport and exercise carry a variety of emotions, from excitement to worry, contentment to depression, pride to shame, satisfaction to dissatisfaction, boredom to anxiety, and frustration to fun. It is the athlete’s ability to deal and cope with this variety of emotions that influences their success.

Quite often the difference between a good and a great athlete is not so much their skill and their physical capacity but more so their psychological skills, in particular their mental toughness.

All athletes/players should train their ‘thinking’ skills along with their physical, technical and tactical skills to be the best that they can be. The importance of psychological skills training is to get the brain and the body working together as a team.

To improve your psychological skills you need to identify your strengths and weaknesses which can then be sorted into three categories. The categories are;

  • foundation skills which are motivation, commitment, self-esteem and self-confidence;
  • performance skills are controlling activation (psyching up), coping with pressure and concentration/attention;
  • facilitative skills which are communication skills, team building, training motivation, psychological rehab from injury and retirement and lifestyle management.

The methods to improve these skills are;

  • practice and education
  • goal setting
  • relaxation
  • imagery
  • self-talk
  • mental preparation

Working on your mental toughness will enhance your peak performance, just check out Michael Jordan;

Michael Jordan

“I think my mental ability has improved drastically, and maybe my physical ability has diminished a little bit. But I think, in the overall picture, I am a better basketball player” Michael Jordan (US basketball player, after being named MVP when the Chicago Bulls won the NBA champs in 1996).