Initial Free Consultation (Includes Lifestyle questionnaire and Goal Setting)
Once you make contact We will arrange an initial free consultation to discuss your lifestyle, current activity levels and existing state of health. You will be asked to truthfully and confidentially complete a questionnaire and consent form regarding these matters.
During this session please feel free to ask as many questions as you like in order to get a better feel for what we do or simply put your mind at rest about what may lay ahead. You can look at it as a kind of "get to know each other " before deciding on whether you feel sure you would wish to pursue.
We will also discuss with you your specific goals and what you are looking to achieve in both the short term and the long term. We will talk over your likes and dislikes when it comes to exercise as this plays a massive part. If your not ready to go to a gym for whatever reason, no problem we want you to feel totally comfortable about what you are about to embark on.
Conditioning
Once we get started each client is put through a conditioning phase. By this we mean preparing the body for what lies ahead with some basic strengthening exercises for the major muscles, joints ligaments and tendons.
A lot of clients have told us that they feared they would be just thrown onto a treadmill and told to 'get on with it'. This could not be further from what we do - why on earth would we put a newcomer to exercise on a treadmill for 10 or 20 minutes of continuous repetitive strain on potentially unconditioned muscles, joints etc? The risk of injury is way to high.
Added to that most newcomers would not last doing continuous cardio at first and would probably not come back!
In the conditioning phase we like to get your body moving through some functional training. Functional uses natural body movements to allow us to perform our daily activities more easily. Think squats to make getting up off the sofa easier, or twists holding a medicine ball to make unloading the shopping and kids less work. It makes us use our muscles in an integrated way, challenging the body to work as a whole.
Depending on how you react and perform will generally determine how swiftly we move through the conditioning phase, nothing is rushed it is all based upon the individual's capabilities.
In the conditioning phase we also begin to develop 'core stability'
Core Stability Training: will strengthen your trunk muscles (Based in our mid-section running around the circumference of our body) and thus help avoid back problems.
Once we have a strong 'core' combined with conditioned muscles and joints it will be time to move onto the next phase of training safe in the knowledge that you are now prepared for more vigourous exercise.