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Fit at Fifty & Beyond
Approach to Your Fitness Journey
Training Expectations
As your trainer I will have the utmost regard and sensitivity for your physical condition and needs. I promise you will find me to be a sincerely empathetic listener. And you can expect me to conduct your training with complete professionalism, dignity, respect, and be supportive in an atmosphere that is entirely non-judgmental, and totally compliant with your rights to privacy and confidentiality.
Optimum Performance Training
The Optimum Performance Training (OPT) Model was developed by NASM as a comprehensive physical training program to systematically progress any client to achieve their fitness goal with physiologic, physical, and performance benefits. These benefits include, to name a few, cardiorespiratory efficiency, decreased body fat, increased lean body mass (muscle), and enhanced strength, endurance, flexibility, and balance. Best Mantra: When you get older you don't workout harder, you workout smarter.
Safety & Comfort
Your safety is paramount; it comes first. The assessment, program design, and training will slowly but carefully progress you toward your objectives. Training will be performed at a level that will not lead to injury or worsen any pre-existing impairments identified in the Physical Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q), the first step of engagement with Fit at Fifty & Beyond. Only after this process do I start training you from the inside out. You'll feel the difference before you see the difference!
OPT Model in Practice: 5 Phases
1. Stabilization Endurance Training addresses muscle imbalances as well as lack of postural control and stability. This phase is crucial for all individuals irrespective of their goals and is recycled through a client’s progressive training.
2. Strength Endurance Training increases stabilization endurance, muscle size, and strength. This training is performed in a more stable exercise environment (such as a bench press) and involves multiple sets of exercises.
3. Hypertrophy Training focuses on the goal of maximal muscle growth. This adaptation targets cellular changes that result in an overall increase in muscle.
4. OPTIONAL. Maximal Strength Training increases the load placed upon the tissues of the body to improve rate of force production.
5. OPTIONAL. Power Training focuses on high force and velocity to increase power, achieved by the application of super-sets and power exercise for each major muscle group, chest, core, legs, etc.
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