<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">…the <strong><em>Master of Compensation</em></strong> that is our wonderful body!!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">When we first begin studying about the body during our entry into the health, fitness &amp; exercise industry we learn about <em>progressive overload</em> as the method for writing a client’s training programme. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Increased weight, altering reps &amp; sets, adding more exercises, increasing duration or mileage, these all become a part of what we do each day for each clients. </span>
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 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Frequency </span></li>
 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Intensity </span></li>
 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Time </span></li>
 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Type</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The FITT acronym is tool we are given to help us recall easily how to progress our clients through strength training with alterations in the frequency, intensity, time or type of exercises we write into their programme. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The idea of progressive overload is a deliberate endeavour towards increasing muscle mass, developing muscle tone, reducing fat &amp; improving cardiovascular health etc.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We know this because it’s the whole point to becoming a personal trainer!</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s everything that is personal training.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Obviously we could add improved mental health as a result of endorphin release, reduction in cortisol etc also all part of the development.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We write programmes to help clients bodies manage load, to adapt &amp; improve resilience alongside working towards improved confidence with aesthetic opinions.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">This is the wonderful system of our beautiful bodies' ability to compensate. It compensates to the environment it’s exposed to, to its most common experiences &amp; dictates at least to some degree the way we eat or is dictated BY what we eat!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet we are not given the same emphasis of training in….<strong><em>regressive under loading</em></strong>….Tissue fragility….or load risk </span>

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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">What am I talking about? </span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Modern ailments that result from under use, lowered tissue tolerance &amp; under exposure to force &amp; loads is what we are now faced with and yet ill equipped to deal with.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">A huge problem facing personal trainers today is pain &amp; conditions caused by poor biomechanics &amp; compensations.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Our training requires as much education around this aspect of client problems wouldn't you agree?  Almost everyone has some kind of fragility alongside the aesthetic requirements, in fact they may seek a PTs advice specifically FOR their modern ailments!</span>

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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">The problem </span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The risk this brings is that when it comes to pain &amp; medical conditions we don’t know what we don’t know. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">It is very risky to assume all low grade aches &amp; pains are biomechanical. While pain could well be psychological &amp; biomechanical, our insurance &amp; specialist training still isn’t enough to protect those with more sinister high risk red flags that can also cause low grade aches n pains.</span>

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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">So what? </span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">There is a very simple solution that could be easy to implement but would likely take time. It would require changing attitudes, education upgrades, improved communication, systemisation, data collection &amp; obviously monitoring.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A joining of forces &amp; in my opinion, the regulation our sector to 'professionalise' us. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We need to be seen as part of the solution but we also require appropriate education about how to practice as a regulated practitioner.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">We require training &amp; provisions that remove the stigma attached to being an exercise progressional. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">This way clients, NHS &amp; regulated clinicians might start leaning into us &amp; our skill set for support!</span>

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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">The solution </span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Everyone talks about the simplest &amp; cheapest intervention for many long term conditions, as well as the huge volume of modern ailments people complain of, as being simply ‘movement’ </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">UK Active's motto </span>

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 	<li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">More people </span></em></li>
 	<li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">More active </span></em></li>
 	<li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">More often </span></em></li>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The government prescribed a 1hr walk a day during the pandemic restrictions because everyone knows movement is a vital component to both physical &amp; mental health &amp; well being, </span>

By giving us education in musculoskeletal (biomechanical) assessment &amp; monitoring with regulation &amp; support so we can do our bit!

It doesnt need to be complex nor risky either, with just a few tools &amp; the right support exercise professionals are perfectly placed to re-build tissue tolerance within our clients to reverse engineer what low activity lifestyles are doing to our bodies!

Simple safe interventions like muscle energy techniques, pure joint mobilisations and nerve mobilisations are a perfect series of iMoveFreely techniques to really get the nation moving more freely &amp; with less pain!

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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">What can we offer? </span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">With the right education, trust &amp; support we can offer movement advice to improve our client's biomechanics thus improving tolerance to forces &amp; loads to address the modern ailments of today's less active 'easier' lifestyle.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">We can do this to reduce risk &amp; recurring issues through strength training &amp; advising progressive overload to develop tissue tolerance.</span>

We want to help..right!!?

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Through learning more about how the human body adapts to both <span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><em>regressive under loading AND progressive overloading </em></strong>we can come into our own &amp; be the go to advisors for reducing NHS waiting lists, supporting our communities &amp; being more involved in health &amp; wellness as a trusted sector/profession for reverse engineering the human body to be biomechanically healthier!</span>

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<h1>What do you think?</h1>
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It would be great to hear your thoughts on this matter so why not email us at info@biomechanicseducation.com with your ideas after reading this blog!

Should we become more regulated?

How would you like to see our sector professionalised?

What education do you think we would require to support the NHS more? better?

Let me know your thoughts...
<h3><em>rachel@biomechanicseducation.com</em></h3>

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Our Diploma in Biomechanics Coaching teaches coaches and trainers the art of biomechanical assessment without the need for expensive equipment, tests that can be done on the gym floor, in your studio, even at home.

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