referred because they report specifi c physical problems, such as a bad back or neck pain, that a specifi c exercise programme can help with.” In all cases, the need for intense
personalisation cannot be overstated. Not only should there be familiarity with a client’s injury record but, when assessing performance, the trainer should also be able to separate symptoms from idiosyncrasies. “Look at Paula Radcliffe,” Lycholat explains.
“How many personal trainers would watch her on a treadmill and expend time and effort coaching her to keep her head still – a complete waste of time, and probably not an effective way of coaching that individual. If you look at the bigger picture – in Paula’s case, at the steady movement below the waist – you’ll see how what appears to be an anomaly masks a very effi cient runner.”
assessing the assessors Coaching to the individual, then, is the benchmark – but what happens when our trainers and educators hold differing, and at times conflicting, views? This was a question probed at the Meeting of the Minds symposium – a gathering of the industry’s thought- leaders and practitioners hosted by PTontheNet in San Diego earlier this year – through an experiment that was set up to ‘assess the assessors’. Lisa Ziegle – a lean, disciplined, highly
motivated and hard-working instructor who reported lower-leg discomfort and muscle pain – was chosen as the ‘client’ and was examined by five very different instructors prior to, and over the course of, the event. The approach and outcome
in each case seemed markedly different – even oppositional at times – but each left the typical gym-fl oor assessment looking crude in comparison to the comprehensive, tailored assessments that resulted.
Paul Chek adopts a holistic approach, working from the inside out to help clients affect their own change
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