Fusion Personal Training

– Could YOU Answer This Question?

If you are considering engaging a personal trainer, and even more, if you are considering becoming a personal trainer, please read this.

What do you think a personal trainer does?

I asked this question on my facebook page, and I got some great answers – all from people who currently have a personal trainer or have used the services of one at some point.
There was no answer from anyone who has never had a trainer…

And we wouldn’t expect there to be, right? I mean, if you have never had a personal trainer how could you be expected to know what a personal trainer does?
By what you see on TV? (genuinely awful).

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-Spend your energy on something that matters to you.

Priorities.

We all have them.

Some things are more important at some times than at other times.Continue reading “-Spend your energy on something that matters to you.”

-So you think your program is ‘easy’…

The view from my office window on a Wednesday night 🙂

So I train this guy – let’s call him ‘Matt’…Continue reading “-So you think your program is ‘easy’…”

– Where did those ‘One Weird Tip’ tips even come from?

Everyone wants to know that ‘one weird tip’ that will miraculously (and easily) change their body shape. Continue reading “– Where did those ‘One Weird Tip’ tips even come from?”

– You can train to relieve niggling shoulder pain – and you should.

Careful and informed management of my own less-than-perfect shoulders keeps them happy and healthy :) — Careful and informed management of my own less-than-perfect shoulders keeps them happy and healthy 🙂

Your training goal becomes the fading image of a midsummer night’s dream if you put yourself in the position of suffering from chronic shoulder pain and are unable to continue to do the type of training that is relevant to your goal.

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– …but it’s easy for you, you’re a trainer…

That statement is such a cop out.

I hear it sometimes, from people who don’t want to eat more vegetables, or drink more water, or come to the gym more than once a week. Or once a fortnight.

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– I WILL NEVER FORGET THE DAY SOMEONE TOLD ME I WAS A SH*T TRAINER

It was during my first year as a trainer in a chain gym during my first year in Australia during my first year of running my own business.

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– Trust me, I have a keyboard.

As I see it, my role as a trainer is to take all my available education and information that has come to me from text books, science, mentoring, my own training, and time spent on the ground with real people in real situations, and be able to correctly individualise and apply that knowledge to suit the person in front of me.

It seems many trainers don’t take the same view.

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– It’s Not Your Genetics Keeping You Skinny, It’s The Way You Train.

I get a lot of personal satisfaction out of training ecto’s.

It is immensely rewarding to take a blank canvas – a wiry, skinny body with the muscle mass of someone who has just been awakened in The Matrix – and to train it properly, and to watch it grow, develop strength and stability, and to see the immense self-satisfaction in the eyes of the guy (or girl) who originally came to me saying that they had ‘tried everything’ and it was impossible for them to gain any tangible amount of muscle. Gosh, I sound a bit like an Arts Major, don’t I… 😉Continue reading “– It’s Not Your Genetics Keeping You Skinny, It’s The Way You Train.”

– What makes a group training session tough? (It probably isn’t what you think…)

Strength coaches CAN jump.

I will answer the question in a moment, but first I want to share a little story that will illustrate my point when I eventually make it – bear with me, it’s not the longest of stories 😉Continue reading “– What makes a group training session tough? (It probably isn’t what you think…)”

– WHEN THEY JUST WON’T LISTEN…

We all have that one friend or relative who asks for your advice about something and then doesn’t even attempt what you suggested.

This is part of a conversation I had today with a good friend of mine, who, in order to preserve his anonymity, I shall refer to as ThatGuy:Continue reading “– WHEN THEY JUST WON’T LISTEN…”

– What was your first time like?

How did you feel just before your first ever personal training session?

If you are a personal trainer and you can’t answer this question, do yourself a favour and read on very carefully – I am going to ask you to do something at the end of this post.

I’ve had two ‘first times’, and they were both very different.Continue reading “– What was your first time like?”

– SELF-RESPONSIBILITY – so hot right now.

Did you ever get an early morning txt that made you wonder what the f*ck the sender was thinking?

That happened to me this morning.

Saturday, 5.07am my phone buzzed.Continue reading “– SELF-RESPONSIBILITY – so hot right now.”

– If you want it, it’s worth the effort.

How hard are you prepared to work for what you want?

Today is a public holiday here in Perth, and my Facebook newsfeed is littered with the stories of what people are doing with their day off. It is a great day here, warm, sunny. And I’m at work.Continue reading “– If you want it, it’s worth the effort.”

– DIFFERENT DOES NOT MEAN WRONG.

How many different variations of squats do you know?

One of my favourite things is helping people to feel successful in the gym, to feel like it is actually possible to get stronger, fitter, change the composition of their body. Success breeds confidence. And confidence breeds success.Continue reading “– DIFFERENT DOES NOT MEAN WRONG.”