Home | Training - HEALTH CLUBS | Articles | Diet | Alan | Exercise | Links Training in Health Clubs Many health clubs offer exercise programs and advice as part of their membership package. These programs can be adequate in their results in terms of improving your strength and fitness levels to a generalised degree. However, unless the staff have degree level qualifications in biomechanics , they cannot recognise and analyse the physical movement patterns unique to each individual when exercising. Programs are, therefore, much less efficient and productive than they could be. This broad-spectrum approach has two consequences: - the results the exerciser seeks will take much longer - there is a very real risk of small and perhaps accumulative problems developing unnoticed. A small shift of the grip, halfway through a movement, a tiny drop of one shoulder or the very subtle turn of the head to the right or left during an exercise movement - all these can make a significant difference. A trained biomechanist will recognise them, make adjustments when necessary and, above all, ensure that the exercise regime is safe, productive and produces a definite sense of achievement. There is a dramatic difference between an effective personal training session and a supervised gym session. A club program will be one that has adequate and basic 'blanket' level mechanics with the same advice given to all the one hundred members before you. Safe? Hopefully. Efficient? Moderately perhaps, for some. Personalised? Not remotely. Unfortunately, clubs and organisations are nearly all limited as to time spent on offering programs to members. The average time of one hour is insufficient to provide the level of quality, individual results and safety that the majority expect for their membership fee. Re-programming is attended to on average every 8-10 weeks, often longer, if records are not rigorously maintained and checked by staff. In the constant drive to maximise profits, some clubs prefer to allow clients to coast along until boredom sets in and they lapse in attendance, believing the fault is their own lack of drive rather than professional neglect. Human acquired capacity (signifying strength and fitness levels at any given time) adjusts every 4-6 weeks. This is based on a minimum of two efficient exercise sessions in a seven-day period, each lasting for no more than 45 minutes to one hour. However, countless thousands of individuals all over the UK exercise in clubs three times or more in a seven day period. For cutting edge competence, each re-programmed work schedule should be elevated in demand by 8-11%, but this important cardio-vascular and resistance guideline is little known, let alone carefully calculated and applied at each level of advancement. The advantages of retaining a professional with advanced qualifications and years of experience are obvious. Attention given to a client is holistic, in terms of safety, progress, expertise, knowledge and achieving results. You are the only person that matters, and when you exercise it is you alone that is the complete focus of attention for the sophisticated multi-skilled expert at your shoulder! You can contact Alan by telephone on  07833 110364