exercise instruction Flashcards
what is the importance of great instructions?
- client has to be safe, complete exercise effectively and have sense of misery, they must learn how to do correctly.
As a personal trainer you must make sure your client..
Understands so they can complete exercises independently and you are able to spend more time and effort on motivating them and keeping the session fun.
If a client isn’t completing a exercise correctly they will..
Injure themselves and will be less likely to follow your programme and get results.
Perfection in exercise execution.
Demanding Exercise Execution, means you are constantly engaging your clients to improve what they do/ and or reinforce the fact they are doing it well.
When does Exercise instruction take place?
In the first month it must take place, also any time a client isn’t doing a exercise perfectly.
why is retention/ contact and support vital?
because if you don’t care they won’t come
components of good instruction:
-Feature, benefit, feel: What is it? Why are we doing it? What should I feel about this? First time teaching an exercise
components of good instruction:
Show, tell, do: Watch me, here are the key points (no more than three), let’s do one (physically and verbally cue, especially the first few times) first teach an exercise or if you’re starting again because a client hasn’t been taught an exercise properly
components of good instruction:
commend, recommend, commend (sandwich feedback): Positive comment, correction, positive reinforcement. Staple diet for any PT
components of good instruction:
Question, remind, summary and make notes what, why, when, where, and how? fill the gaps summaries back and add notes to the programme as required. Will do this if you are teaching someone a new programme or update on an old one.
what is done when instructing a client?
Feature, benefit, feel (FBF) The aim of this approach is to continuously link what a client is doing to their pay-offs for doing it. Very motivational. Feel good after achieving result.
feature:
Something about an exercise. for example “okay Joe this it the free weight bench press that works the chest muscles”
benefit :
This is the “what’s in it for me” for example “Joe this exercise is all about building the muscles around your chest, so you are strong and burn more calories”
feel:
this is the emotional link statement, that gets the client in the headspace to really invest the effort. “you’ll feel great once you’ve developed some great definition and muscle in your chest area”
Show:
When teaching an exercise you first show the client one. Keep it simple. “okay Joe, ill just get you to watch me do one then we’ll get you started”
explain how to do correctly , and this is where we start and this is where we stop. This is the pace we go. Do 4-5 reps so they learn from body movement.