<h2>The Problem Of Selecting Exercises For Personal Trainers - Tired Vs Better.</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you ever struggled with exactly which exercise/s to prescribe your client?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Are you conscious of the exact reason why you choose the exercise/s you do for your client?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Why that exercise over that one?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you consider which movement/action you are strengthening?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you think about </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">why?</span></i>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Could you logically explain your choices?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Can you confirm the relevance of that specific exercise to their goal?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Are you able to assess and monitor their progress objectively?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Having read a post from one of my previous learners, Biomechanics Coach&#x2122;, Garry Thompson...</span>
<blockquote><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Any PT can make a client tired, but a great PT makes them better”. </span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It made me think...</span>

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<h3><strong>How do you decide which exercises to prescribe to your clients to make them better?</strong></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the gaps in our basic exercise prescription education is the true specificity of exercise prescription.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Generally, at level 3, we are taught squats are for legs or push ups for chest as a simplistic view of what I mean.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Yes some PT’s who recognise this are going too far the other way and making things far too complex with funky ‘functional’ training that is often too much and not appropriate for some individuals. They might also still be of the old mindset of a PT session should be all or nothing, no pain no gain, its gotta hurt, it’s gotta be sweaty….gotta make sure my clients knackered. Read Garry’s post title again!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Does that make them better? </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well of course it depends on their goal/s but what I am talking about is truly individual bespoke exercise prescription specifically based on the client's body, their movement capacity AND also their goal.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Whatever their goal, be it fat loss, muscle gain, tone up, event prep, post rehab etc all of them desire improved movement and some will require sport/activity specific movement training.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ask yourself this question </span><b><i>“can you justify every exercise choice you make?”</i></b><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">  </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">or are you simply giving squats for legs and push ups for chest?</span>

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<h3><b>How Do You Decide Which Exercises To Prescribe?</b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">We need to have a system or logical method to decide which specific exercises to prescribe. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Our generic education encourages us to consider training opposing muscle groups. i.e. if you perform chest exercises you should also perform back exercises. That makes sense, right!?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course but let's look at one example:</span>

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<strong>Example; Client has poor posture, rounded shoulders</strong>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Train the back more?  Rows? Reverse fly? Lat pulldown?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well you could but that would be </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">assuming </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">the back is ‘weaker’ and by doing back strength work will help open the chest, and it might! How do we KNOW that is the right choice of exercise based on what we are looking at?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">A better question might be ‘</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">WHY are they round shouldered in the first place?’</span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Is the chest ‘tight’? so stretch first? (lengthen the agonist)</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">or in a subclinical spasm? or anti spasm? (contract the agonist 20%)</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">These 2 exercise contradict each other and one could compound the other problem.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">So which one do we start with? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do we only train the back? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Or only stretch the chest? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Or only anti spasm the chest?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Does stretching the chest make enough of a difference so we can then work the back?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Or anti spasm, then stretch, then strengthen the back?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Each of the above consideration leaves us with a different exercise choice. So which exercise do we choose? Which order to do them? How do we make that decision without KNOWING what the root cause of that specific posture is?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We NEED to be able to assess more objectively of course. Therapists do and so should we. Let's learn how to assess our clients' </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">intrinsic</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> biomechanics to make our exercise prescription more specific to their ‘capacity’ thus enabling us to JUSTIFY exactly WHY we are choosing this exercise over that one with a logical reasoning.</span>

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<h3><b>How Can We Assess The Client So We KNOW?</b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Commonly PT’s are accessing postural assessment courses which can help but are subjective so still leave us with questions and feeling like we might be guessing. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">This is </span><strong><i>extrinsic</i> biomechanics. </strong>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">This is what we do as exercise professionals already. We analyse the way clients move and coach them into better technique. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“knees in line, back straight, feet in line!”</span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">However, if that poor technique is actually a lack of capacity due to muscle spasm, tight nerves or stiff joints, then attempting to correct it with verbal coaching and strength work may not get you the results you want. It may also make you anxious about whether you are actually giving the best exercises to your client since they can’t physically perform them well. Ever been there? I certainly have in the past.</span>

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<h3><b>Increase Your Confidence &amp; Improve Your Clients Results</b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Understanding how to logically justify your actions will massively increase your confidence. It will also mean you improve your results and client satisfaction. They will recognise and respect your guidance even if it is different to other PT’s because you can always justify WHY you are asking them to do certain things. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you want more objectivity in your assessment/induction skills?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you want to increase your ability to justify your exercise prescription?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Would you like to increase your confidence in choosing the right exercises at the right time for your clients?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Would you like to retain your clients?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you want to improve results even more?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Understanding how to assess </span><strong><i>intrinsic</i></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong> biomechanics</strong> is vital for us as exercise professionals. PT’s, Pilates or Yoga teachers otherwise we are GUESSING! We need to analyse and monitor our clients with more than just fat calipers, fitness testing and weighing scales. We need to understand their physical capacity for movement before we do anything. Don’t you agree?</span>

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