Personal Training
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One-on-one or group sessions available, a personal trainer can help you achieve your fitness goal. 
We can help you with:
- Weight management or weight loss
- Body toning
- Core strength & stability
- Cardiovascular fitness & endurance
- Muscle growth
- Increasing energy levels
- Increasing strength & power
Benefits of a Personal Trainer
- Keeps you motivated
- Provides exercises that are safe, functional and efficient
- Monitors progress
- Exercise programs designed to suit your individual goals, needs and circumstances
- Ensures your workouts are challenging enough to prevent plateaus
- Provide tips on nutrition, health and lifestyle
Session Structure
You can choose between 30 and 45 minute session durations, and whilst the exact format your session will depend upon your needs and requirements, the session will include:
- Cardiovascular training – to burn fat and/or increase your cardiovascular fitness
- Weight Training – to tone and strengthen muscles, boost metabolism and strengthen bones, tendons and ligaments
- Stretching – to improve flexibility, aid recovery and reduce the risk of injury
Fact or Fiction? Common Fitness Misconceptions
| Fiction: | Doing abdominal exercises will give you a flat stomach |
Fact: | Doing abdominal training will strengthen the muscles of the abdominal region, which is important for good posture and maintaining back health. However a flat stomach or ‘six-pack’ will not be achieved until the body fat covering the abdominal region is reduced. This is achieved through diet and exercise to create a negative kilojoule balance. Simply put, you need to burn more than you consume. |
| Fiction: | Women should train with light weights so they won’t bulk up |
| Fact: | Firstly, gaining muscle bulk, as assumed in this myth, is hard! Really, really hard! And, often takes a long time to accomplish. In addition to this, biological and hormonal factors play a huge role in an individual’s ability to develop muscle size.
To achieve any degree of muscle tone requires overloading of the muscle to force your muscles to adapt to the stress being applied. Without sufficient weight for the number of repetitions the muscle won’t be stimulated to a sufficient level and forced to adapt. |
| Fiction: | If you stop training the muscle that you have will turn to fat |
| Fact: | Muscle and fat are completely different. Muscle cannot turn to fat and fat cannot be turned into muscle. When a person stops training their muscles will gradually atrophy (get smaller) and return to their genetic baseline. Often, clients stop training but do not reduce their kilojoule consumption to reflect their decreased needs – thereby giving the illusion that muscles are turning to fat. |
| Fiction: | You can target fatty areas for reduction with the correct exercise |
| Fact: | Men tend to store fat in their abdomens, whereas women store more fat around the hips. Abdominal and hip exercises can strengthen and tone muscles in these areas, however, they do not result in fat reduction of those areas specifically. When a person engages in exercise they use energy produced by metabolising fat and carbohydrates stored within the entire body – not just specific locations of the muscles being exercised |