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The Personal Trainer is evolving.

The distinction between the old and new

guards is significant: while the personal

trainer you’ve encountered at the gym is

probably focused on getting your body in

shape with exercise and maybe nutrition, we

are going to help you change your lifestyle.

We all know, basically, how to live right.

People have been told what to do, as far as

it concerns a healthy lifestyle, for over 20

years. But who’s executing? We hold, as a

general public, more information than we

ever have about health risks and proper

eating habits. We’ve been told and told and

told. Yet we’ve got the worst overweight and

obesity statistics we’ve ever had. Apparently,

telling doesn’t work.

Any trainer could work with you really intensely, and you could change your whole body into whatever

you want—you could go Arnold Schwarzenegger or you could go Kate Moss. But at the end of the day, if

you don’t understand the dynamics behind the change, you’re not going to stick with it.

Functional Training, as the word says, focuses in re-establishing the correct functioning of the body.

It means exploring all aspects of health such as nutrition, stress and weight management, fitness level,

any precursors to disease, and then picking a coach approach to your training journey.

Many personal trainers follow a very directive tactic: “This is good, that is bad…you HAVE to do this… don’t eat THAT…do as I say…” We allow our clients to have a shift in perspective, to see things they haven’t seen, so that they can

make choices about what is good FOR THEM.

The objective can be as small as losing weight to be able to play with their children, or as big as

triumphing over diabetes to increase the quality and the duration of their life.

The first step is to translate that vague desire of change into sharply defined aims. After assessing a

person’s readiness to change, we create a long-term blueprint, then zoom in on three-month SMART

goals: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-bound.

It’s the same technique used in business boardrooms everywhere.

After the goals are set, 1 hour sessions once or twice a week concentrate on achieving the day-to-day

targets. Whatever the goal, Functional Training relies on baby steps for success—a sharp contrast to

no-food, no-rest, no-fun regimens that may help you shimmy into a bridesmaid dress but can’t keep

you fit forever.

If you make very small changes, incremental changes that you can see yourself doing for the long term,

that’s when you see successes. Psychology tells us that quite frequently it takes at least six months to

implement behaviour modification.

It is much more than just going through the right exercises. The whole idea is for you to understand

what you can do: Discover or re-Discover Yourself®.

“Beauty is the harmony of Form and Function…”