SARAH
SMITH | SASPT | Personal Trainer | East Grinstead
Sarah was recommended to me by friend after my moaning about putting on weight after giving uo smoking and general life approaching mid thirties! I contacted Sarah and have never looked back since. She was recommended by someone who goes to her classes and told me how motivating she was, she was not wrong. Sarah has changed my attitude towards exercise and instead of hating it, as I once did, I now love it. She has a passion for her job that somehow rubs off on you and not only do I enjoy exercise now I look and feel like a different person. I will not lie, she works you hard but Sarah makes every session intersting and different, for example boxing. I had never thought about this as a way to get fit but now I love it and have invested in my own gloves.
I know it may sound dramatic but I feel Sarah has changed my life! I have a new energy and positive outlook and seem to wake up ready to cope with the day ahead. After doing an intensive 6 months with Sarah people were commenting on how much weight I had lost and how toned I was looking, which makes you feel great, no more bingo wings. I think because Sarah makes the sessions fun and interesting it feels like the time flies by. I am now pregnant and although I reached my target weight I still carry on seeing Sarah, as well as going to her classes at the gym, as I enjoy the sessions so much.
There are not many people who can change your life around in such a positive way, perhaps she should become a life coach too! Thank you Sarah for the new and improved me.
Exercise with medical conditions or after injury
Nothing should hold you back from living the life you want, that includes injuries and medical conditions. If you have a chronic condition, regular exercise can help you manage symptoms and improve your health. Aerobic exercise can help improve your heart health and endurance and aid in weight loss. Resistance training can improve the strength, anaerobic endurance and size of the skeletal muscles.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia…
"When properly performed, strength training can provide significant functional benefits and improvement in overall health and well-being, including increased bone, muscle, tendon, and ligament strength and toughness, improved joint function, reduced potential for injury, increased bone density, increased metabolism, increased fitness and improved cardiac function."
(Medical conditions covered include; Coronary Heart Disease, Musculoskeletal diseases, Respiratory disease, Diabetes, Mellitus, Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome, Mental Health (stress, anxiety, depression)
Considerations
Exercise limitations and requirements in special populations e.g. obesity, hypertension, diabetes
Contraindications to exercise, risk factors, warning signs, symptoms.
Working under the NHS - NQAF guidelines
Developing individually based behavioural strategies for exercise and lifestyle, recognising and responding to warning signs and symptoms
You need to be able to move well.
This may seem like an obvious statement.
Many adults will have some kind of impingement that creates pain in their daily or weekly lives. These impingements are most likely created from imbalances in muscle groups, which create poor movement. If you can move in a pain-free way it will allow you to use your consciousness to focus on other areas of your life. Pain is a distraction, and moving well is a great start to eliminating most discomfort.
When you build a house, you start with the foundations. You add the walls and then work on the plumbing and electricity. Each part of the process is added to the foundation that is keeping it structurally sound.
Building a body is the same. We must start with a foundation, a base, and then progress into the finer details of the body. Each addition is dependent on the previous step.
I love what I do and I am are constantly learning and training myself
I am constantly driven by the incredible sense of fulfilment I feel when someone achieves their goals – no matter if they’re you’re an elite athlete, recreational athlete or a sedentary office worker. I believe that everyone can positively change themselves and their bodies.
