<span style="font-weight: 400;">Right now we are all feeling challenged by the limitations we are faced with trying to help our clients in achieving their goals.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">More and more clients are ‘virtually’ begging for help due to their achy back, sore shoulders, painful knees and weight gain!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet we have been stopped from using gyms, we are forced to work online (unless we can find an open space) wash equipment between every client and keep them a good distance apart….all very annoying, right?!!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Are there other ways to help them or at least to consider? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">What more could we do or offer?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">What is going to happen in the future???</span>

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<h2><b>Is The Personal Trainer’s Role Becoming More Complex?</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ultimately our role is to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">restore our clients movement quality to a more natural state thus enabling them to feel stronger, fitter, faster, lose excess body fat and gain confidence.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Sadly lockdown has limited our options but not the ability to educate, demonstrate and offer solutions. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Exercise professional’s roles are becoming more and more demanding, seemingly more complex and yet more and more limited, which can feel very frustrating.</span>

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<h2><b>Biomechanical Causes Of Modern Ailments </b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">When everything seems to be getting out of hand I find that simplifying things helps calm the crazy going on around us. So when ‘exercise’ seems almost impossible without a gym or appropriate equipment, why not shift our thinking towards NOT ‘exercising’ instead?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">What I mean is when you think about it ‘exercise’ is actually often a replacement for lost movement capacity or a reduction in the required time spent being dynamic to remain physically healthy…...</span>

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<b><i>Definition</i></b><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></i><b><i>Exercise</i></b><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">; activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness.</span></i>

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<b><i>Exercise</i></b><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is </span></i><b><i>physical activity</i></b><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that is planned, structured, and repetitive for the purpose of conditioning any part of the body. </span></i><b><i>Exercise</i></b><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is used to improve health, maintain fitness and is important as a </span></i><b><i>means</i></b><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of physical rehabilitation.</span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet when we l</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ook at the <a href="https://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/factsheet_adults/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">guidelines for movement health from the W.H.O….</a></span>

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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adults aged 18–64 should do at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity throughout the week or do at least 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity throughout the week or an equivalent combination of moderate- and vigorous-intensity activity.</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aerobic activity should be performed in bouts of at least 10 minutes duration.</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">For additional health benefits, adults should increase their moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity to 300 minutes per week, or engage in 150 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity per week, or an equivalent combination of moderate- and vigorous-intensity activity.</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Muscle-strengthening activities should be done involving major muscle groups on 2 or more days a week.</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">….there is no mention of ‘exercise’ or reps or sets.  </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">How does this translate into options? Nothing stating weight lifting, lunges, bicep curls, 15 reps x 5 sets, 30 second recovery's etc etc</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So when you think about the options for achieving “....</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity throughout the week…” </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">that leaves a huge amount of room for interpretation. As does “....</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Muscle-strengthening activities should be done involving major muscle groups on 2 or more days a week</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">…”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Cleaning and gardening can fit in here, painting &amp; decorating, moving furniture, playing with kids in the garden, litter picking, hiking, chopping wood, dog walking, activities that can improve the home or environment or even living conditions! Climbing trees, hanging from branches and carrying things up and down stairs. Rearranging things, digging holes, cleaning windows...some of this stuff could even save our client’s money!</span>

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<h2><b>So What?</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">If we focus on what we can achieve with our clients through whatever medium we have available, get creative with our programming and educate our clients on long term health models, are we not likely to have more success long term? Of course we all know this from lockdown.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">By using their homes as their gym, creating easy to use household items as tools and bodyweight sessions will have replaced the use of gym equipment for many of you already I am quite sure.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">But is it enough? Are our clients now at a higher risk since we are so limited? What more can we do?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Movement improvement techniques do not only improve movement, they reduce risk as well as low grade modern ailments caused by poor biomechanics. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">While clients are unable to use the gym our job is to show them how to take advantage of every opportunity to avoid movement degradation while improving movement quality.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course the gym is a great place for sculpting and strengthening and having access to lots of equipment for variety with BUT surely we can take advantage of right now?</span>

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<h2><b>BOTH Exercise &amp; Natural Movement Then?</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Yes there is room for both!</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">And here we have a solution for those of you with tricky clients who are complaining of those modern ailments, back ache, sore shoulders and knee pain. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In the words of Katy Bowman…”</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Natural movement solves a myriad of issues”</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">iMoveFreely returns our intrinsic biomechanics to a more natural state, it has proven over and over for decades to restore natural movement thus reducing modern ailments caused by biomechanical issues. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Movement improvement programmes like iMoveFreely don't replace medical interventions and shouldnt be used as such. Yet they DO what they suggest if we consider the whole body.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">iMoveFreely strength</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">iMoveFreely pilates </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">iMoveFreely yoga</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">iMoveFreely at your desk</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Make them your own style or blend them into circuits or design an iMoveFreely clinic where you educate clients on how to utilise the techniques during long periods of sitting working at home.</span>

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