When to hire a Personal Trainer...

Having a Personal Trainer is the most important when you BEGIN exercising. 

What's so difficult about exercising, right?


A bit of running on a treadmill, some squats and various leg training imprlements to work on the areas you want to "tone" and the job is done!

All it requires is a joining a gym and you'll magically know what to do!

What about ankle mobility preventing from from going through a full range of motion on squats?
Why are your knees bending inwards on leg press?
What's your running technique like?
Are you doing steady state cardio or intervals? Which is more effective?
Has your body accomodated and adapted to the stress placed upon it? Is this why you have suddenly stopped making progress?

These are the questions (as well as many others) a Personal Trainer worth paying for will show you the answers to.
My point is, why learn the hard way? Get a trainer for a few sessions at the beginning of your exercise journey, save money on countless fruitless atempts to get in shape, do the sensible thing and get professional help.

Just like when you learn how to drive a car you have lessons FROM THE START.

 

If you've never exercised or gone through an exercise program before, how can you expect to get the results you want?

 

Learn how to train safely, effectively and efficiently from the beginning. People really don't seem to understand that safe, effective and progressive exercise is a learned set of skills!

 

I'm still learning about every element of fitness every single day, the subject of fitness of so big and multi-faceted that it's impossible to keep track sometimes. If a fitness professional is like this, how can the beginner to exercise NOT feel at sea?

 

It's so easy to be overwhelmed, to give up and to waste your time and money for another year in a bid to get fit, healthy and in shape.

 

We, as a company, make it easier for you. It takes someone of skill to simplify something to the laymen, those lacking in quality, experience or knowledge make things more complex. Let us put your mind at ease.

The start is where you should have the most guidance, not some mythical place of readiness and fitness where you are "ready" for a Personal Trainer.

 

My favourite client is someone entirely new to exercise, because they have the most to benefit from my experience, I can and regularly do entirely change peoples mind and body in terms of weight, body composition, posture, mobility, flexibility, co-ordination, self-esteem and many other things, these are changes seen in the beginner to a much larger extend than in say an advanced exerciser with years and years experience in the gym. 

You will see the gym isn't a scary place and is nothing like what you imagine.

A gym is never full of athletes, 80% (a generous percentage) haven't got a clue how to train properly. They might think they know, but nope!

You will learn that your body is capable of great things.

Things you never thought would be classed as exercise.

 

 

"What do you mean, throw this kettlebell and catch it above my head!?"

A good Personal Trainer isn't there to merely run you into the ground. We are here to help you. Not to satisfy our own egos. We want to give you the maximum benefits through causing you the least pain possible. Yeah, it hurts sometimes, it can and will be difficult but eventually you will learn to love this aspect of training

A good Personal Trainer builds you up, progresses you and fosters independence from the trainer rather than dependence on the trainer. A bad trainer is merely after your money for as long as you will pay him/her. A good trainer will provide you with quality service for only as long as you require knowing full well that this is how to get more clients in the long run.

 

A good Personal Trainer is a teacher, who inspires confidence in his clients.

All you need to do is make the first step. The most difficult step of all. But also the most sensible.

I am:

An advanced kettlebell instructor

NPA Novice Lightweight Champion of Yorkshire

Qualified in Primal Flow (a form of bodyweight exercise style) and co-founder of C & J Fitness.

Feel free to message with any questions you may have or join our facebook group for more details.about Personal Training, classes and more.

CJK.

 

By the way, I only look this this around twice a year.

Join me on my journey to look even better!

The No Excuses Series #3 But I don't have a spotter!!! :'(!!

"I would train; I just don't have spotter."

 

Nawwwww poor BABY!

Here's an idea for you if you've actually said this:

• Use dumbbells
• Use kettlebells
• Use bodyweight

But the single best solution to this problem is:

• Grow a good old-fashioned pair of balls

When the lack of a spotter is an excuse:

• I'm going for a PR on Bench Press
• I'm going for a PR on Squats

That is all.

Battle For The Britains: Training Split

I have decided upon a 6-8 week bulking phase during which time I have decided to train in a similar manner to a professional weightlifter or powerlifter.

On some days you will notice that I am training multiple times a day, which is why on these days calories are extremely high (even higher than normal, with high fats and even higher carbs).

The aim of this is to hit each muscle group as hard and intensely as possible without overtaxing the nervous sytem, which has been a problem in the past.

Its also so I don't have to go as long without refueling, and according to the research I have done (such as Zatsiorsky, Siff and Simmons) shorter duration multiple workouts in a day yield better results in terms of strength than the single session per day structure I have used in the past.

So I figure that this will be exactly the same for bodybuilding. We shall certainly see.

Monday LEG DAY WITHOUT FAIL (XMAS IS NO EXCUSE, THE ONLY LEG DAY THAT IS MISSED IS THE DAY AFTER A COMPETITION)- Quite simply I believe this is the reason I won the Yorkshire Novices, you have to smash your legs EVERY SINGLE WEEK with correct technique as well, all you half squatters out there!.

AM- Hamstrings and Glutes 30-40mins
Post-workout fruit salad
Protein Smoothie with about 50g Oats Olive Oil and a banana

Early PM- Quads and Adductors 30-40 minutes (Adductors added as mine are weak weak weak, as well as being the weak area of my otherwise strong upper leg shape on stage)
Repeat the same post-workout meal

Late PM Calves and Core Circuit 20-30 minutes
At this point I can throw in any mobility work that I feel I need/ want to experiment with
Another repeat of the post-workout meal (although most weeks this ends up being without another fruit salad)

Tuesday- Rest day. Although restorative techniques, yoga and meditation are allowed. Mobility work, especially if I've been researching and thinking (always dangerous.)

I have changed my rest day to Tuesday as Legs is absolutely brutal on the Central Nervous System and changing it to a Tuesday means I am never training to failure more than 2 days in a row, to me this means I am less likely to overtrain, get injured or prevent muscle growth.

Wednesday- AM- Shoulders 30-40 mins - Post-workout meal

PM- Triceps and Core 30mins(occasionally split into 2 workouts of 20 mins each) - Post- workout meal

Thursday- AM Mult-joint multi-planar Back and Grip work 30-40 mins Massive Post-workout meal

PM- Upper Back, Rear Delts, Core and Traps  (unless overly tight in this case I will add more mobility work) Again huge post-workout meal.

I hate training traps as mine are so overactive and tighten up so quickly it is unbelievable. Up to this point my traps have always grown through the heavy deadlifts and back sessions, but I've thrown it in this time as I'd like them to be slightly better on stage at the Brits

On both leg day and back day (full days quite literally, especially legs!) my calories will be far far higher than on the other days, particularly in terms and high quality fats (very much including saturates and animal fats) in order to deal with the increased energy and recovery demands.

Friday- Any form of training I want, perhaps swimming, perhaps some primal flow, no rules, just have fun.

Or eat more food.

Saturday- Complete day of rest, can eat pretty much what I want (doesn't stray too badly when bulking, funnily enough)

My cheat meals when dieting are famous.

Sunday- AM Chest 30-40 mins- It was in thinking about how to bring up my chest (my weakest muscle group) that I decided upon the multiple workout option. + Post-workout meal

PM- Biceps and Core- I feel this is my second weakest area on stage, but who doesn't want a better gun show? More isolated bicep work for me then (having supersetted biceps with chest for about as long as I remember!)

Although having just referred to my arms as guns, I now, ever so slightly, hate myself.

My aim for this very brief bulking phase is to train like a professional athlete while I have the ability and resources (hopefully) to be able to do so.

Being a Personal Trainer, I'm in a gym literally 12 hours a day, and more if I choose therefore I have plenty of time to train, recover between sessions and eat as much clean foods as I can (literally.)

Not many people are in a position to be able to train like this, so I am very very lucky.

For this reason, the only person to blame if I do not place well in the British Novice Lightwaves final is me.

Because I also have the best support team in the world.

We shall never surrender!

By Chris Kershaw