Optimise Your Training Program

I hope you have been ale to implement some of the perfect day tips from last week and hopefully you continue to move forward towards the perfect day as well.

Believe me you'll notice the difference if you can most of it down and the best part is that it will free up more energy for you to do things for yourself and with friends over the weekend without burning you out for the week to come before it even starts. 

I left off last week giving you a quick rundown for this weeks email series titled "optimising your training program."

Step 1 - Get Yourself a Program!

Yep, you need one. 

You cannot get a desired result without a plan to get there. 

Unfortunately results don't come that easily or we'd all be in high paying jobs that we don't need to actually be there for and spending 360 days of the year in the South of France.

Whether your goal is to get fit, get strong or to lean up, you need a program, a plan, to get you there.

The program needs to fit your capabilities, your time availability and your equipment availability.

Whether you train at home with your own equipment, at the park with nothing or in a chain gym with everything, it's not enough to just go in and do some stuff off the top of your head, thinking that will make the difference.

You've done that for years and it hasn't worked, so why will it now?

Now how do you make up a program?

You're best bet is to actually pay someone to do it for you - you might have a friend who's doing a program that seems good, or another friend who is a PT and can whip something up for you but I guarantee you won't get the program that's best for you, probably not even close.

Paying for this service will mean that you would actually sit down with the trainer and talk a little about goals, past experiences and the issues mentioned above. 

They will tend to put "more" into developing you program if you're a paying client then if they are doing it for free.

And you know what, if you invest in the program then you're more likely to invest in actually doing it.

I love making up programs. 

I program for every client I have in the studio and everyone has their very own program designed with them in mind, and them only.

If I have 6 clients at once then they will all do their own programs, that's how important I believe an individual program is (check the image above which is from 1 night in the studio). 

I won't just run a one-fits-all-class because it's easier to pull off, that's not personal training. 

You shouldn't pay for what is marketed as personal training and do the same thing as someone else.

Those 24 hour gyms and high intensity group training studios are very popular now and a bunch of them have popped up in our area in the last few years months. 

These can be a great option as they are open 24 hours, you can basically go at your own leisure and the groups provide support but with so many of them around now you can't probably find one that isn't very busy.

So use a personal trainer to maybe simply sit down with a you and develop a training program that you can do on your own, or with them. 

I train a bunch of female footballers like this right now and it an work no doubt.

I can do the same for general population clients as well where you might come in for a consultation chat, I'll then go away and develop a program for you, we'll have a PT session to go through everything and then you're off for 3 - 4 weeks before we repeat.

This is far cheaper then a full time PT and there's still some cost involved but remember, you get what you pay for so if you're forking out $10 for park training, then expect nothing more then $10 worth of results.

Tomorrow we'll look at mobility and flexibility training and how to optimise that aspect to get the most out of your training.