For active clients and non-members

This email address is available to you to maximize our time together, yet still be available for all those questions you might have for when we are not training together. One of the best ways to maximize your trainers ability to positively affect your goals is to ask questions. Knowing what you need to keep balanced in your lifestyle is often the source of the best questions for your trainer. I network with a physical therapist, holistic practitioners, massage therapists, chiropractors, a nutritionist, and many other trainers. I am constantly asking them for feedback on specific cases or a clients ability to adapt, or even working past injuries.

I am constantly researching different things. Recently I have been blown away by the number of clients with various joint troubles, that have had chronic symptoms disappear just from strengthening the joint, using proper muscle fatigue methods. As simple as it sounds, the goal is joint protection, but taking the stress to a optimum level to allow growth of the fast twitch muscle fibers. It requires constant adaptation to make sure the client is stressing the muscles properly, and constant vigilance on how the client fatigues, not always on how many repetitions is performed. As a student of kinesiology, I have found that every exercise has a chain sequence of muscles that fatigue, sometimes it is like peeling layers to get at the muscles that fatigue after the primary muscles. My experience with many types of clients has allowed me to apply this method of personal training as a workable adaptable and successful tool, although it is a foreign notion to many who have had trainers before that do not focus on the quality of the fatigue. Needless to say some clients are alienated at first, but those that stick to it are rewarded with knowing that it didn't take as long to get a change in shape and strength.

I do find it difficult on the other hand, to give proper lifestyle and eating advice without more consistent dialogue between myself and the clients.

So, if you have a question and I can't answer it, then it is in my interest to find that answer.

Thanks,

Steve Dotson