Tracking your personal training progress
How do we track your progress… Once we have started working together with our personal training and we are confident that the fundamentals of movement patterns, exercise technique have been completed and your confidence has grown in these areas, we move to tracking progress. This can be done in a variety of methods, my personal choice is whatever works best for each individual client. Some peoples’ main goal is to lose weight so we use the weighing scales, if your goal is to drop a dress size we will use measuring tape. If your goal is to get stronger we […]
Our first personal training session
The following paragraphs will outline what our first PT sessions in Galway will look like. As many people can be slightly intimidated by the gym environment and even the concept of hiring a personal trainer in Galway, I try to meet my clients at the entrance door and give them a brief tour of the facilities, changing room location, lockers, and the gym floor where we will be doing the bulk of our work. The next step is to get started with gentle warm up, we will tend to use the treadmill but any preferred piece of cardio equipment will of course […]
Why hire a personal trainer in Galway?
Why hire a personal trainer in Galway? The word hire is very important. Your personal trainer is providing a service and that service has a purpose that is specific to your needs and goals. Let’s cover the reasons that might not spring to mind immediately. Confidence is a major factor in many deciding to hire a PT, a gym environment can be an intimidating place. Those first steps into the gym environment are not very different to starting a new job and your trainer is assigned to train you into your new position. Like a new job everyone else seems […]
How to run correctly
How to run correctly Do you know the movement pattern of running? Asking this question often results in some funny looks but do you actually know how to run correctly. As with everything in life there is a right and wrong way to do everything and often muscle strains and joint pains are caused by poor movement patterns. From the feet up this is a description of efficient movement pattern for running. The foot must stay dorsiflexed, this means toes are pointed upward. Landing on your toes can less to calf strains while landing on your hips will lead to […]
How to reduce injuries immediately when running
Injuries are a constant for runners, we all know the pain of having to stop your training when you are feeling good, clocking up great times and adding miles to your weekly runs and when a dreaded injury comes along. But the good news is there is a solution. Injuries are often caused by what […]