Your Training Program – Does it work?

You want to reduce body fat, increase lean muscle mass and/or strength, improve performance, and better your overall health.  But is your workout program keeping you from doing any of this?  If you aren’t seeing results after all your hard work, then I suggest taking a good look at your training program.

Flexibility, core strengthening, balance, cardiovascular, and strength training are necessary components for one’s program.  They all work together, and to have one without the other or to be lopsided in one area will be a detriment to your training program. 

The formula for success?  A highly systematic, periodized training program is necessary!

 

Here are 7 phases of a successful training program – think of each one as one flight of stairs – you gradually climb and reach a new level depending on the goals that you set for yourself.  But you have to graduate through each phase first in order to move on the next level!

 

  1. Corrective Exercise Training – Designed to prepare the body for the demands of higher levels of training – a beginner usually starts here
  2. Integrated Stabilization Training – Improves flexibility and core stabilization
  3. Stabilization Equivalent Training – Reduces muscle imbalances
  4. Muscular Development Training – Muscle growth period
  5. Maximal Strength Training – Heavy lifting and increasing strength period
  6. Elastic Equivalent Training – Increases speed and power
  7. Maximal Power Training – Increases speed and power

 

Which phase are you in?  Are you in the correct phase?

 

A good, qualified Fitness Professional will be able to assess your fitness abilities, needs, and goals and will train you in a systematic approach based upon an initial Fitness Evaluation and Assessment.  A good trainer will appropriately start you at a level which best fits your individual fitness experience or lack of it – to do otherwise would be to increase the potential for injuries, overtraining, frustration, and goal failure. 

 

Do you have a systematic, successful plan laid out for your workouts?

 

If your answer is “no” or “unknown” then give me a call for a free Fitness Assessment and Evaluation – get started on the right track, and start seeing the results which you work so hard for!

David