<span style="font-weight: 400;">The skills of the personal trainer have increased dramatically over recent years.  The demand of their clients has driven their development down paths that hadn’t previously been considered.  Clients generally go to personal trainers to get fitter or lose weight, but as consumers have become more intelligent, sophisticated and more demanding, so their needs have evolved.  </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now clients will commonly expect you to provide ‘some exercises for my back, as it’s a bit sore today’.  Also, you will hear them ask for advice and exercises for a knee problem they felt while training for example.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">This evolving role will likely increase further as the credit crunch escalates.  This will likely result in people being even less likely to want to spend extra money on seeing a health professional for what they perceive to be a ‘niggle’ and not want to go to the expense or hassle of seeing anyone else.  </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">As personal training qualifications develop, we must be careful here that we don’t train ‘jack-of-all-trades’ who know only enough to be dangerous, but with the new methods of screening coming up like functional and biomechanical screening, there is much that personal trainers can do to help in a very real way while retaining their professional integrity and not becoming ‘pseudo-physios’. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The body is an integrated system, each of its component parts links together to provide coordinated movement as we move in our daily lives.  Functional training helps us prepare each unit for these tasks and engrains the correct movement patterns that our brains are used to rather than by training ‘muscles’ as we used to a few years ago.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Functional training has its origins in rehabilitation and has been around for 40 years or more. In this time we have established that it can help your client’s performance and preparation for their common tasks, and possibly also reduce their risk of injury.    </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the time that functional training has been around in rehabilitation, we have found that biomechanical screening is a critical precursor to functional screening and functional training, otherwise the foundations for the movement patterns can be flawed and although they may cosmetically look OK, intrinsically the body can be working hard to compensate for flaws in the system that functional screening doesn’t pick up.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">As the functional concepts start to become more widely accepted in fitness and conditioning, it is important to recognise that the biomechanical screening has not yet followed into these arenas.  Functional and biomechanical screening and training are very important aspects of an overall conditioning programme for any sport or activity and are complementary in every way. For example, there are many people who pass a functional screen, yet fail a biomechanical screen.  They detect different factors, both of which are important to the trainer.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Specifically, we need to develop our understanding of nerve biomechanics and the biomechanics of specific joints, like the pelvis, spine, shoulder and knee.  Once we understand these principles and how to screen our clients with them in mind, we can prescribe very precise exercises that relate specifically to their problems and goals.  </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Once these biomechanical issues have been resolved then functional training or any other form of training you may wish to do has more chance of being successful and there is less risk of your client becoming injured.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ultimately as a trainer, you should specialise in certain areas, and you should never stop learning. However, as a trainer, you take a client through some form of movement in every session so your understanding of how they move and why they move like they do need to be at the top of that list. </span>

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The trainer that stops learning will soon be obsolete. Why? Because the trainers that do evolve will be able to get their clients better results. Clients will flock to them, whilst the others are left behind.

Evolve or Become Obsolete… It’s your choice!

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