RE: Hiring a personal trainer is more than a motivator
Dear Certified Trainer...I'm sorry
to have to do this to you in front of all of these cool people
on Adult FriendFinder, but after reading your outright solicitation for
business on your post, and checking out your site, you've
really asked for this! I'm not sure who you went and
got certified through, or what your formal fitness education
is, but the blatant lack of understanding of human movement
('function') is not only apparent in your advertisement
but exhibited numerous times on your livfit web page.
Let's see...you have a cute little picture of a leg
extension and then a few 'different' varieties
of leg curl machines that you insist will bring 'results'
to your clients if used with good form and posture.
Well, I would like to first ask you what kind of posture is
being exhibited on ANY machine?...(in real life, where
we live and play, there are no machines to supply us with
artificial stabilization, that's why we have an abdominal
region)...So intuition tells me that unless we're
going to be placed in a stable situation, we'd better
train our bodies to be efficient in a dynamic, unstable
state! Hmm...now, back to the extension and flexion of
the knee: if you take a look at the joint's action during
a leg extension and leg curl, and then take a look at the joint's
action during common (everyday) movement patterns, we
see that there is a great deal of separation in degrees about
the knee.
Why then, unless we kick ourselves in the ass when
we walk would we want to train our hamstring to do that? That
isn't natural, that isn't fun! Train the brain
to train the body the way we actually move, not just to make
a muscle as big as genetics will allow! :) During functional
movements (what we use to live, work and play) our hamstring
isn't responsible for concentrically contracting
to flex the knee, it eccentrically decelerates knee extension
in the sagittal plane and internal rotation of the hip in
the transverse plane! The same can be said about the leg
extension, because if we used the action of the leg extension
during our stride patterns, we'd kick anything and
everything in front of us!
So...let's review: forcing the body to provide stability
so that we can act with mobility is good...being a run-of-the-mill
(traditional old school) machine-based,
artificial, un-learned trainer is bad. Drop me a line if
you'd like to further yourself and do your clients
a great deal of good...any time you train a NON-FUNCTIONAL
movement pattern, you de-train the nervous system (and
thus do yourself and your clients a huge disservice)! Best
of luck...JJ Doubleday, NLAMN (no letters after my name)
:)
Judge yourself not by what you can do, but by what you can
do for other people...make someone better today!
*disclaimer: typos may well exist in the text because I
typed this extra fast! :P