Investing
in Yourself
This should describe you:
You want some direction from someone with skill and experience
in exercise theory and practice, someone who can help you
achieve your fitness goals. You are done with sleep walking
through exercise routines that provide limited benefits and
you are ready to work hard, intensely and seriously, at bringing
your health and fitness closer to your potential. You are
willing to own responsibility for the discipline and effort
it will take for a course correction, but, you don’t
want to spend something equivalent to a house payment every
month for that advice. You don’t want a personal trainer
to count your repetitions and make small talk. You want a
coach who will direct you in a training program you are willing
to own as if your own personal health were at stake. It is
your health, your body and your program – but a coach
could prevent a great deal of trial and error for you.
Cost for training:
Here’s the deal: what you want isn’t
free, but it is deliberately designed to be affordable, and
it is an important investment with great returns.
Group training: the preferred setting. Group training provides
a sense of accountability, motivation and fun that one to one
sessions cannot create. Group sessions are typically 4 to 8
other people exercising alongside you. My role is to design
and progress the program, scale the session to your level,
coach your form, keep score and cheer you on. Misery loves
company - you’ll find yourself both cheering others on
and being cheered on by them. Cost for group training varies based on the size of the group - we can discuss this prior to your program initiation.
Individual training: A great tool for focused objectives,
particularly in the early stages when you are learning new
exercise form. These individual sessions are typically designed
as a bridge to bringing you into group sessions. Individual
sessions can also be tailored to couples who want to work out
together at home, particularly if an area is available in the
home or garage for training space (use the “consulting/teaching” link
from the main page for more information on home training space
design). Individual training is $60 per session, cash or check.
Workout of the Week Format: When access to a gym is already
guaranteed, it doesn’t always make sense to abandon that
resource and train elsewhere. For instance, the Anthem community
has a nice fitness center for the residents to use. Some folks
that I train have a “Big Box GloboGym” membership,
and GloboGym counts on members not showing up. I’m encouraging
you to show up and frustrate their expense projections. Some
of you have outfitted your garage with the Spartan level of
equipment required for CrossFit style workouts.
The Workout of the Week (WOW) approach gives you coaching
on a workout that changes weekly: once a week you meet for
training, and other days of the week you repeat the same workout
on your own at your gym. While this does not permit the same
level of gains and progress that CrossFit’s total workout
variation provides, it is a much better alternative than rote
routines without any direction, particularly if money or scheduling
is an issue.
Physical Therapy Sessions: Some individuals may require skilled,
focused physical therapy training – these individual
sessions must meet insurance payment criteria and often require
a physician’s referral as well. While therapeutic exercise
is used widely as a physical therapy modality, it is tightly
defined as a skilled rehabilitation service for a specific
medical condition that restores an individual to a prior level
of function, or establishes a maintenance program to prevent
deterioration in a condition that does not respond to skilled
intervention with material improvement in a reasonable time
frame. I am happy to discuss how this option might meet your
insurance company’s criteria for payment, co-pay requirement,
etc. Physical therapy services are available in Flagstaff at Summit Health and Fitness, where I have been granted privileges to practice
physical therapy under my Arizona physical therapist license.
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