Welcome to The Program to Improve Your Fitness
April 27, 2008 by Sal Marinello
Filed under Fitness Tips
Check back here every week or so to get the latest exercises that are part of my program, all for free. It won’t cost you a penny, you’ll have the opportunity to get into great shape using my free exercise program and you’ll have your own, on-line personal trainer.
Level 1 of my program is titled, “Learn How to Move Better So You Can Get Stronger.” Over the next few weeks you’ll learn the exercises in the first section of Level 1, 10 dynamic flexibility exercises that will improve functional range of motion, balance and stability.
The levels of this program are an exact representation of the progression that I have used as a personal trainer with all of my clients over the better part of the past 2 decades, a progression that has a proven track record of improving people’s fitness level. Regardless of what a person has done before they come to me, or if they have worked with another personal trainer, if they want to work with me they have to start at the beginning.
I treat everyone like a beginner. This may seem harsh, but in order to insure that clients get the most out of my program I don’t take anything for granted. In my experience as a personal trainer, people who train by themselves or who have employed other trainers cannot perform many of the basic movements that I include in Level 1 of my program. I have had people protest this “rule” of mine, but I explain that the customer isn’t always right.
The levels of the program are broken into 3 sections; dynamic flexibility, functional movements and strength training exercise.
The dynamic flexibility movements will improve range of motion, balance and stability, and help to strengthen the muscles of your hips, lower back, abdominal region, buttocks and thighs – your core – because this kind of stretching is done standing. The functional movements combine flexibility work with movement and strength elements, and are typically done without weights. Some of the functional movements that you will learn to do in the second and third levels will be the most difficult and challenging moves in the entire program. The strength training exercises will help to make you stronger – duh! – and serve as the perfect compliments to the flexibility and functional moves. All three of these elements have the combined effect of teaching you to move better so that you can get stronger, and as a result, “fitter.”
Most programs – most personal trainers – make the mistake of having people use weights right off of the bat. This is a move that makes the process of teaching people, and getting people into shape, more difficult that it has to be. People need to learn how to move properly before they start lifting weights.
So take a little time every week and check HealthAndFitnessAdvice.com for the regular updates. Using my free exercise program will be like having your own personal trainer.
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