I enjoy working with beginners, I really do.

I am a strength and conditioning specialist.  A body consultant.  A personal trainer.  A coach.  A teacher.  Call me whichever you like, this is my natural role in this world.  The name doesn’t really matter, it’s what I do that counts.  I change peoples’ lives.  What I teach can and will change your life.  And mine.  And I love working with beginners.  I love working with beginners because there is just so much potential there!  You have no idea how strong you can be.  You have no idea of the potential lurking inside you.  It’s exciting for me because I know the joy, changes, realizations, “Aha!” moments, and education that is coming your way.  Incredibly positive things are in store for you.  It is exciting to be witness to and to be part of someone’s life in that capacity.

When we schedule your first training session, I am just as apprehensive as you are.  Each client’s first day is slightly different because each client comes to the table a unique product of their own experiences.  Some are older and more set in their habits, some are younger and more adaptable.  All bring their own gifts and cumulative experiences with them.  The concepts and methods I teach are universal.  Universal in their purity, simplicity, and truth.  But these concepts will be uniquely applied to each first time client.


An example is the squat.  I start by pointing out that there are over 140 different ways to squat.  None of them necessarily “correct” or “incorrect”.  I encourage the client to now start thinking in terms of “high value” or “low value”.  The 6 inch partial squat may have value for you, it may not.  The full, “ass to the grass”, “Olympic” squat may be high value for you, it may not be.  The medium box safety squat may have high or low value for you.  And it goes on.  These same rules apply to pushing exercises, and pulling exercises.

This is how it begins- it begins with the foundational categories of squat, push, pull and a proper introduction to the elements of free weight training.  Free weights.  NOT machines.  Beginners DO NOT belong on machines.  This is the most true thing you will ever read- it’s worth repeating.  Beginners do not belong on machines.  Yes, machines may have high or low value very, very, very much later in the training, but, in the beginning, a proper introduction to weight training revolves around learning the postures and movements naturally with free weight and body-only type exercises and skills drills.  These postures, movements, and skills drills will develop the critical motor coordination, balance, and proprioception (the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement).  Machines do NOT develop motor coordination, balance, or proprioception, totally missing this very important phase of the beginner’s development.  Starting weight room beginners on machines sets them up for long term INJURY.

Learning to weight train is a lot like learning martial arts.  To be good at it requires good instruction.  You don’t take a beginner off the street and start them off with flying roundhouse kicks the same way you don’t start a beginner in the weight room with overhead squats.  There are forms and postures to be learned, ideally in a specific order.  Each skill building on the last.  A progression.  A progression that requires time, effort, and dedication.  But just like you once learned how to ride a bike without training wheels, the forms, postures, movements and skills you learn will not EVER need be relearned from scratch, but rather built upon and perfected over time.

You will learn how to move differently, more gracefully, more efficiently.

Actually, learning to weight train may be more like mixed martial arts.  Just as a mixed martial artist will strive to improve his striking, his grappling and throws, and his ground and submission game, a weight trainee should work to gain knowledge and skill in the various methods and techniques of weight lifting, bodybuilding, and powerlifting to increase his/her ultimate benefit potential.

New Energy & Weight-loss Training Systems.  NEWTS for short.

Drop me a line.  Visit the New Energy & Weight-loss Training Systems website.  Beginners are welcome.

 

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