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Canfitpro Chapter 1

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Precontemplation Stage Not Ready
In this stage, you might develop increased awareness of an opportunity but not be thinking seriously about it yet. You might begin to discuss fears and hopes about becoming'a Personal Training Specialist and seek out general anade education.
Aware/Have not considered it
Contemplation Stage Getting Ready
You develop increased belief and confidence in the possibility of change. You might evaluate advantages and disadvantages of becoming a Personal Training Specialist, identify your support system, and discuss advantages and benefits. Giving it some thought
Preparation Stage Ready
You become informed about the requirements for success and make plans. You might evaluate barriers and opportunities and com plete your goal setting and action planning.
Informed
Action Stage Actively Making Changes
You take action. At this stage you would take a course and complete the Personal Training Specialist certification, do business planning, and execute your plan.
Taking a course
Maintenance Stage Adherence to Changes
This stage happens after change has occurred, continuing with the behaviours required for success. To do this as a Personal Training Specialist, you must maintain certification through ongoing continujng education.
CEC's
5 Stages of Behaviour Change 6th Stage
1. Pre Contemplation
2. Contemplation
3. Preparation
4. Action
5. Maintenance
*6. Relapse
When approaching a sessions with a client you should presume the following is true. 10 items
1. Your clients are doing the best can with the resources available to them at that moment.
2. Positive intention is behind your clients behaviour
3. How your clients behave is not who they are, so you accept them as they are and help to change their behaviour.
4. You respect your clients in their, own model of the world. never talk politics
5. There is no failure-only feedback. You are willing to adapt and change as you go.
6. The mind and body work together, and you work with both as one.
7. Choice is better than no choice, so you will strive and aim to increase opportunities for better choices more often
8. Change and exercise adherence can be bringand enjoyable easy
9. Your client has all the resources needed or can create them.
10. You get what you focus on, so you will maintain an image of a successful personal trainer-client relationship.
Clients Fears abd Perceptions 5 items
1. Unrealistic expectations for themselves.
2. Fear of failure
3. Fear of not knowing what to do or how to do it.
4. Perception that everyone will be looking at them
5. Belief that they are the only ones who feel the way they do
Knowledgeable
As a Personal Training Specialist, you must know the subject matter you will be discussing with clients. You also need to knowledgeable enough to stop before giving any advice that is outside your Standards of Practice. Personal Training Specialists need to learn constantly and evolve through continuing education
Supportive
Peesonal Training Specialists should support clients in their goals and be empathetic to the journey they are taking. Clients will have good and bad days, and you need to be supportive and positive during both.
Respectful
Personal Training Specialists should be respectful of their clients' ideas and approaches to exercise and respectful of their time. You need to focus on the client throughout the entire session and provide the quality experience that the client deserves every time you meet.
Model of Healthy Behavior
you demonstrate healthy behaviours, your clients are more willing to follow your advice and guidance. If you do not model the behaviour you are teaching, you will have difficulty convincing your clients the program is worth the investment of time, money, and effort.
Trustworthy
Your clients should feel comfortable sharing information related to their health and well-being so that you can make the most informed decisions about their persqnal training ining program.
Enthusiastic
As a Personal Training Specialist, you should be motivating and show keen and genuine interest in what clients are doing both inside and outside the fitness centre, supporting their goals of optimal health. Your expression of enthusiasm should be geared to the ways in which your clients like to be motivated and congruent with their personality type.
Innovative
The Personal Training Specialist should constantly be looking for ways to add variety and improve each client's program and ultimate results. Providing safe, fun, effective, and time-efficient choices to clients will empower them and contribute to their long-term exercise adherence.
Patient
Personal Training Specialists work with many types of clients; some will be similar to you, and others may be very different. Regardless of their personality type, level of motivation, and pace of progress, all clients needs your patience as the progress towards their goals. Some will move quickly, and others will move slowly; all need a certian degree of patience to be successful
Sensitive
Being sensitive to clients' needs and characteristics is an important quality of a Personal Training Specialist. Whether you can relate to them or not, you need to demonstrate compassion and understanding toward all your clients.
Flexible
Each client is unique and will require you to be flexible in your approach. One style will definitely not fit all your clients. Personal Training Specialists should be flexible throughout workouts and be willing to adjust the plan in the moment if necessary.
Self-Aware
As a Personal Training Specialist, you need to be aware of your own strengths and weaknesses and how others may perceive you. You will not be able to grow personally and professionally without a strong sense of who you are and how others view you. Keep this in mind, especially when working out in your own in the fitness facility, because potential clients may be watching and assessing whether they would hire you Personal Training Specialist.
Resourceful
You will likely not have answers to all of your clients' possible questions and concerns, so you must be able to refer your clients to other resources or professionals when appropriate. Joining a network of health professionals can become reciprocal; as you refer when necessary others may begin to refer to you as well.
Committed to providing timely, specific/ feedback
Your clients need to know how they are doing as they progress toward their goals. Immediate feedback is essential to keeping your clients focused and motivated. The more specific the feedback is the more valuable it will be to your clients. Be sure to state feedback positively and focus more on what you want to see.
Capable of providing clear, reasonable instructions and programming
Personal Training Specialists have a vast knowledge base, most of which your client does not need to hear about in detail. Your responsibility is to communicate your message in a way that clients will easily understand, retain, and find motivating.
Able to generate expectations of success
Personal Training Specialists assist their clients in being accountable for their workouts and healthy lifestyle choices. You also need to demonstrate affirming abilities that lead to success, empower clients, and guide them toward understanding that they are capable of many things they initially thought they could not achieve. The ability to for- mulate powerful questions helps in generating (and maintaining) clients' expectation of success.
Intervention Strategies for Pre-contemplation Stage 4 items
- Increase awareness of the importance of exercise and emphasize the benefits
- Provide general education one on one or through print or electronic publications
- Discuss health risks
- Discuss myths and fears related to exercise
Intervention Strategies for Contemplation Stage 5 items
- Make a list of advantages related to regular exercise
- Continue with education and discussion of benefits
- Provide clear and specific recommendations for an exercise program Identify social support system (family, friends, coworkers, or exercisers)
- Build the client's self-confidence
Intervention Stategies for Preparation Stage 3 items
- Evaluate support system and barriers
- Provide personalized exercise design
- Work on goal setting and action plan
Intervention Strategies for Action Stage 6 items
- Talk to the client about self-monitoring
- Talk to the client about self-reinforcement - - Enhance the client's self-efficacy
- Provide encouragement
- Prepare for relapses Help the client prevent relapses
Intervention Strategies for Maintenance 4 items
- Review and revise goals and exercise program
- Address concerns that may lead to relapses and strategize how to avoid them
- Set new fitness goals: "What is next?"
- Provide social support; introduce client to others who are in the same phase
Listening
Personal Training Specialists need to gather information about clients constantly throughout the training journey. Asking good questions and listening intently will enhance the personal trainer client relationship and enable you leverage in to gather key information that you can clients. programming and motivating your clients.
Curious
When gathering information about your clients, being curious will lead you to ask good questions and solicit useful feedback about what motivates them, what they are experiencing, and what may be holding them back from further progress.
Intuitive
Throughout the personal trainer- client journey you can trust your intuition to inspire questions that will help your client conjure positive experiences. You may want to put yourself in the position of the client. For example, if you were the client, what would you need to hear, see, or do next?
Key Qualities of Effective Personal Training Specialists 18 items
1. Listening
2. Curious
3. Intuitive
4. Knowledgeable
5. Supportive
6. Respectful
7. Model of Healthy Behaviour
8. Trustworthy
9. Enthusiastic
10. Innovative
11. Patient
12. Sensitive
13. Flexible
14. Self-Aware
15. Resourseful
16. Committed to providing timely, specific/ feedback
17. Capable of providing clear, reasonable instructions and programming-Personal
18. Able to generate expectations of success
Positive Interactions for Client Fullfilment
Goal:
When explaining exercises be clear and concise and emphasize key cues for setup, technique, and safety.
"In a squat or lunge, keep your knees tracking foot"
Positive Interactions for Client Fullfilment
Goal:
When demonstrating and teaching the purpose of the exercise, identify how doing the exercise will benefit the client.
"This exercise targets your leg strength and core stability"
Positive Interactions for Client Fullfilment
Goal:
When cueing, ask the client what she or he should remember when executing the exercise. (This questioning enables the client to learn, recall, and remember the key cues for future reference.)
"What should you remember when lowering down into the movement?"
Positive Interactions for Client Fullfilment
Goal:
When coaching to motvate the best possible effort from "We the client, link the purpose of the exercise to the greater purpose of the fitness goals
"We are including lunges to strengthen your legs and help you accomplish your goal of running a 10K race Strong now, strong on the course"
Positive Interactions for Client Fullfilment
Goal:
Encourage personal empowerment and long-term adherence by offering specific feedback that acknowledges the skill and ability that the client is exhibiting.
"You really dug deep in that set. How do you feel now that you've got through it?"
SMART Goals
S - specific
M - measurable
A - attainable
R - realistic
T - sensitive
SMART Goals - Specific
Maria wants to lose 6 lbs in 4 weeks
Goals should be as specific as possible so that people can picture exactly where they need to be going.
SMART Goals - Measurable
the device you will use to track the goal example. a scale
Using measurable goals is a great way to give and show people feedback on their progress.
SMART Goals - Attainable
work out the math and days workout 4 days a weeks and lose 1.5 lbs per week*
When you are setting a goal for your client, you should associate a specific attainable action with it.
SMART Goals - Realistic
show the math 1.5 lbs a week X 4 weeks = 6 lbs*
To be motivating, the goal must be believable to clients. If your clients do not think they will be able to reach the goal that has been set, it is not going to be motivating for them.
SMART Goals - Time sensitive
should have amount of time or specific date
Breaking down long-term (over 6 months) goals into short-term goals (less than 6 months) will keep clients motivated and allow you to give them feedback as they progress toward their long-term goal.
Other Factors in Exercise Adherence
1. Individual Factors
2. Environmental Factors
-Social Environtment
-Physical Environment
3. Physical Activity Characteristics
-Exercise Intensity and Duration
-Group vs Individual Exercise Programs
-Qualities of the Personal Trainer
Tips for Working With the Personality Types Introvert 4 items
- Use subtle cueing and low volume
- Make sure the client feels comfortable in the facility
- Ask questions to make sure the client understands your instructions and address any concerns
- Provide home workouts
Tips for Working With the Personality Types - Extrovert
- Use circuit training to provide variety
- Stay on track and minimize side conversations
- Celebrate success and provide validation
- Recommend group fitness
Tips for Working With the Personality Types - Sensor 3 items
- Explain each exercise step by step
- Focus and pay attention
- Align program with activities the client has enjoyed in the past
Tips for Working With the Personality Types - Intuitive 3 items
- Link interim goals to long term goals
- Explore variety within interval training
- Allow time for careful technique instruction to preview upcoming additions to the program
Tips for Working With the Personality Types - Thinker 3 items
- Give honest, direct feedback
- Commend the client for making improvements
- Consider providing articles or additional topics for discussion
Tips for Working With the Personality Types - Feeler 4 terms
- Take cues from the client
- Compliment the client as appropriate
- Be easygoing and flexible
- Show gratitude for the client's efforts, and reinforce their goals
Tips for Working With the Personality Types - Judger 3 items
- Judger Schedule training sessions in advance
- Be on time and fully prepared
- Share your plan at the beginning of the session, and follow it as closely as possible
Tips for Working With the Personality Types - Perceiver 3 items
- Help the client stay focused and see things through
- Keep workouts fresh and varied and provide options
- Surprise the client with recognition, fun activities, and challenges
Introvert (Energy Expression Preference)
A client with this personality trait may have quiet energy, listen intently, and take time to think before acting. He or she likes to work out at slow times when the facility is not busy. The client likes to know what to expect in each session, demonstrates a keen focus during workouts, and goes with the flow at the pace the trainer sets
Extrovert (Energy Expression Preference)
A client with this personality trait is social and approaches sessions with high energy She or he is talkative, thinks aloud, enjoys working out in groups, and easily interacts with others, but can sometimes be distracted. This client enjoys intense workouts and an enthusiastic personal trainer who can match her or his energy.
Sensors (Information Perception Preference)
A client with this personality trait focuses on the details, appreciates practical solutions, and remembers facts after you have shared them. He or she likes to focus on the moment, leverages established skills and abilities, enjoys a steady, consistent pace and responds well to step-by-step instructions.
Intuitive (Information Perception Preference)
A client with this personality trait enjoys discussing the bigger picture and possibili- ties. She or he may enjoy workouts that use different tools, will quickly notice anything new or different, and will work at an exercise until she or he perfects it. This client enjoys learning new skills and likes to work in bursts of energy.
Thinker (Information Processing Preference)
A client with this personality trait appears cool and reserved, appreciates your honest feedback, takes few things personally, is honest and direct, and likes to know the of each exercise. He or she may be purpose motivated by achievement and may enjoy a healthy debate for fun.
Feeler (Information Processing Preference)
A client with this personality trait makes decisions based on values and feelings. This client is warm and friendly, is in touch with how she or he is feeling, and values harmony and compassion. The client is quick to compliment others, is motivated by appreciation, and avoids arguments and conflicts. She or he may schedule personal training appointments various days and at various times.
Judgers (Information implementation preference)
The client with this personality trait tends to take workouts seriously, is prompt, enjoys having a defined start and finish, and sees the need for rules and structure. He or she likes to make and stick with plans and has a work first, play later attitude. This client will likely have a set training schedule with you each week and will not often change appointment times.
Perceivers (Information implementation preference)
The client with this personality trait is playful and casual, likes to have options, and hasa play first, work later attitude. He or she likes to start new things and appreciates the free dom to be spontaneous.
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