Services

BENEFITS of having a personal trainer and what the client should expect
from me as a personal trainer:

Weight management

There is so much confusion out there about weight management and
personal trainers mainly because the market is saturated with ineffective
quick-fix remedies that don’t work.

How can a personal trainer help with weight management?
A professional and skilful personal trainer is there to facilitate and support
clients, guide them through necessary changes so the client becomes
successful at managing their weight. This is done with nutritional coaching,
kick start programs, life style changes and maintenance programming.

Program writing

Personal trainers view program writing as a science and art. The personal
trainer will go through a process of understanding the client’s needs, wants
and lifestyle to negotiate an agreed program. This enables the personal
trainer to be more effective at shaping the behaviour of the client forever.
Personal trainers will confidently write programs ranging from basic to
advanced, specific sports (football, rugby, tennis, etc) and also cover special
populations (elderly, obesity, children, heart problems, arthritis, pregnancy).

Nutrition

For the personal trainer nutrition relates to what the body needs to ingest
in order to stay healthy in light of the demands placed upon it. Essentially it
is about food and drink. The food we eat contains macro and micro nutrients.
These are the components of our diet that we need in a variety of amounts
every day.

The personal trainer will skilfully integrate principles of healthy
eating and nutrition; encourage clients to practice healthy eating and
drinking behaviours.

Fitness assessment & appraisal

A personal trainer will evaluate client’s fitness; take blood pressure, heart
rate, body composition, postural assessment, girths, skin folds and health
appraisal questionnaire. The personal trainer takes a professional approach
when dealing with this component as it’s essential for effective training
whatever the situation.

Exercise psychology

This is the corner stone of effective personal training and is fundamental for
the personal trainer to motivate and come up with simple but effective exercise
psychology techniques and strategies to help the client achieve the result
they desire.

Biomechanics

A must know for personal trainers as we need to analyse clients movements,
combining human movement science and functional training concepts.
The personal trainer will apply it to body form, technique correction, specific
sports requirements, program writing and rehabilitation.

Exercise physiology

Having a good knowledge base of physiology helps the personal trainer to
understand the relation between the cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous and
digestive systems. Giving the personal trainer effective exercise prescription for
human performance and development.

Functional training

The personal trainer’s concept of functional training is developing the ability to
work with basic postural challenges and correct muscle imbalance. The personal
trainer will develop a program which transfers gym/studio based exercise to real
life activities and experiences.

Sports performance

Working with performance-orientated clients, recreational sport participant or
competitive athletes, the personal trainer will develop performance plans and
periodic programs for maximum impact.

Clinical, posture & special populations

Being a good referral arm for GP’s, physiotherapist and osteopaths is very
important for a personal trainer. This enables the personal trainer to work
efficiently with the elderly, pregnancy, children, diabetes, obesity, arthritis
and injured clients.

Lifestyle psychology

Life style is so important these days and the personal trainer is not just there
to make you sweat. Personal trainers explore coaching ways to keep the client
active and engaged away from the gym also. Personal trainers play a huge role
in stress management, helping clients with anxiety, stress and depression.

The benefits of working out are:

• Reduce obesity
• Boost confidence
• Reduce the chances of type II diabetes
• Can aid with the reversing of type II diabetes
• Increase bone density
• Reduce the effects of arthritis
• Have better range of motion
• Increase metabolic rate
• Injury prevention
• Increase balance and coordination
• Improve CV fitness
• Lowers blood pressure
• Reduces the chances of heart disease

Where to train:

We can train at your local gym, I can come to your home or we can take
advantage of the many parks that occupy Edinburgh city. I also cover the
whole of East Lothian and Midlothian.

First consultation (free)

Once you have made the initial contact by phone or email, we will arrange
a free consultation at a location to suit you.

This will be the first chance to meet and get to know each other before you
begin the process of training. I will ask you to fill out a small questionnaire
to assess your health, fitness and lifestyle. It also gives us time to chat about
what you want from a personal trainer, what your desires and goals are, and
where you feel you need help the most. This will help me to write an accurate
program which will be tailored to your needs.

What I specialise in:

• Weight loss - through diet plan, nutritional advice and training program
• Muscle gain - for controlling weight and hormone release
• Strength - common definition: the ability to exert a force against a resistance
• Endurance - four types: Aerobic, anaerobic, speed and strength endurance
• Speed - integral part of every sport: increasing maximum speed,
• Core stability - learn to control the position of the lumbar spine during activity
• Plyometrics - run faster, throw farther or hit harder to improve performance
• Rehabilitation - getting you back to full fitness after an injury or surgery
• Assisted stretching - hands on stretching to encourage better range of
movement and to prevent injury
• Yoga - a more subtle and refined way of getting in touch with your body
• Meditation - calming agitated minds to help you focus on what’s really
important
• Relaxation - relieves stress in the body and mind, helps with sleeping
disorders
• Goal keeping coaching - SFA qualified goalkeeping coach, Youth to
professional level.
• Sports specifics - a process in which the personal trainer researches a
player and provides a training program that’s specific to their sport.
• Sports profiling - a process in which the personal trainer researches a
player and provides a training program that’s specific to their sport.