Do You Think Personal Training Will Look Like This?
If so, you are sadly mistaken my friend!
Most people don’t have the strength to do a straight leg push up let alone be stepped on during one!
If you’re a trainer and you have clients who have injuries, limitations in movement or issues with strength of certain joints, check out Muscle Activation Techniques and read up on a new technique that is all the rage right now called Muscle Activation Techniques. All the pros are using it, so why not offer this to your clients as an add-on and help them heal from those chronic injuries that keep them from working out at the intensity they need to be!
Check out an article in Men’s Fitness: 5 THINGS MUSCLE ACTIVATION TECHNIQUE (MAT) TRAINING CAN DO FOR YOUR BODY
Are You a Personal Trainer Who Is:
1. Tired of working around body pain with your clients?
2. Frustrated because your clients are constantly injured?
3. Are you trying to find exercises that won’t hurt your clients?
I started out as a trainer and I have been there! I was given every injured client. It’s exhausting if you don’t have the right tools.
Here’s Why I was Frustrated While Training Injured Clients:
I’m Training my client at the gym and no matter how many times I would say “don’t let your knee dive in” during a squat, it didn’t make a difference! This is bad form that cannot be corrected with proper cueing. No matter how hard my client tried she could not stop her knee from dropping in. I became curious as to why this was happening.
Here is the Solution I Found Worked Quickly:
In the first day of the Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT) internship they explained how the body compensates or works around a (neurological) weakness as a form of protection from injury or instability. The body avoids positions of weakness and favors positions of strength as a safeguard and it does this AUTOMATICALLY! That made so much sense! That’s why no matter how hard my clients tried to correct their form, they couldn’t.
The body’s goal is to protect, conserve and heal and if it can’t heal, it will continue to protect in as many ways as possible for as long as possible. When a person squats and their knee dives in, there must be a muscular weakness/inhibition that they are avoiding, and as a result, the body is favoring a position of strength and taking a “detour” around the position(s) of weakness.
The sooner we realize that the nervous system is the boss of how we move, the sooner we stop fighting with the body and start working with the body to get it to do the things we want!
Get your mechanics checked out today and make sure you aren’t the next injured client!
Note to Trainers who are interested in MAT
If you’re a trainer and you’re interested in Muscle Activation Techniques there is an economical and straight forward training that MAT provides in Toronto where you can become Jumpstart Certified in Muscle Activation Techniques. This is a great way to help your clients heal from their injuries and help you gain the trust of your clients.
– Madeleine
Apana Bodywork
Muscle Activation Techniques Helps with Chronic Pain
I used to be big into exercise and took a break for awhile after my daughter was born. I noticed my anxiety went up and I had trouble sleeping at times and of course started to gain some weight. This short article from Mayo clinic reminds us just how important exercise (even 30 min brisk walking) is for everyone but especially if you suffer from anxiety or depression.
