Assessment and Consultation
You have questions, goals and specific issues you would like to address. Based on my assessments I will have answers and a plan.
Single Training Sessions
Individual or group, high or low intensity circuits, gentle or power yoga, water workouts, strength training….exercise fun.
Training Program for Specific Health, Strength, and Performance Goals
Functional Training: All training begins with assessments and functional training. As we age most of us tend to develop postural abnormalities and inefficient, compensated movements often resulting in an increased risk of pain and injury, such as chronic lower back pain and rotator cuff tendinitis. Functional training helps people to perform activities of daily life more efficiently and decreases the risk of injury. Improving posture and movements requires a strong back, abdomen and core that becomes the foundation for any kind of training program.
Weight Training: Often weight training isolates and targets specific muscles, especially with the use of machines, and can help to support specific movements and balance weakness, like weak gluteus muscles that are compensated for by overused, stronger quadriceps or back. However, loading isolated muscle groups does not always translate well to any movement that someone would make in their daily life or sport activity and, because they restrict movements to a single plane of motion, may result in faulty movement patterns and injury. Isolated loading movements are complimented by load bearing and non-load bearing functional movements targeting back, abdominal and core and other stabilizing muscle groups with an emphasis on dynamic movements in multiple plains of motion.
Sport Specific Performance and Endurance Training: Every kind of training starts with functional training, even at the highest level of sports specific performance training, because athletes must continue to focus on correct stability, mobility and balance to continue to develop the most efficient motor patterns and decrease the risk of injury. Performance training develops power, agility and endurance for specific purposes. Individuals interested in participating in endurance events, like a marathon or a Kaiwi channel paddle, will need a program with periodization that targets HR zones.