Specialist fields and recognising the experts
After 41 years in Exercise, Injury and Nutrition and given the level of qualifications he possesses, it is more or less an automatic assumption that a very experienced professional like Alan will have specialist fields he has taken a particular interest in over the years. You would then further assume that he's also developed exceptional knowledge and expertise within those areas.
All such assumptions would be correct.
Alan provides very advanced professional abilities for both genders at all ages and levels, but he particularly focuses on four areas:
- Female Exercise, Injury and Nutrition at all ages.
- Over 50s Exercise, Injury and Nutrition for both genders.
- Obesity Problems and Weight Loss, for both genders at all ages.
- Exercise and Nutrition for both genders who have gone through rehabilitation and surgery of any description. With the Physiotherapist's job done, his skills are for those who would then benefit from the professional capabilities of an Exercise Biomechanics expert, to show them the appropriately safe and effective path forward to enhancing their existing levels of physical fitness and wellbeing.
Alan belongs to the three very highly regarded professional associations you can see on the 'Alan' page and their professional 'weight' is considerable.
'The International Society of Biomechanics' is a world-wide organisation of specialists in the sophisticated science of the physical mechanics of human movement. Its members are able to create very finely tuned exercise prescription for literally any physical goal or requirement, from fitness to weight loss to injury recovery to body re-shaping, or anything that involves the human form in motion.
'The Clinical Exercise Physiology Association' is the affiliate arm of 'The American College of Sports Medicine' and houses experts in exercise prescription for the injured and those with physiological problems or long term physical difficulties of any description.
'The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences' is the national UK organisation that is gradually moulding the standards in this country, concerning the enormous task of guaranteeing solid professional levels of knowledge, competence and expertise amongst sport and exercise science professionals everywhere.
Belonging to even one of these organisations is a good indication of reliable quality; but belonging to all three is exceptional, and the mark of an advanced expert.
A personal trainer with such a background is very rare, but there is an actual format that expert personal trainers always use. Just knowing how these experts work, can effectively help you decide as to whom you can and cannot trust with the responsibility of looking after you safely and efficiently.
Despite the fact that Alan wrote this guidance article a couple of years ago, the expertise levels it indicates and describes is based upon his many years of assessing personnel in this sector. Thus, regardless of the relatively brief passage of time, it is still fully up to date in its accuracy and depth of guidance.
Wherever you are, please read this article and use its content to evaluate the professional level and quality of individuals who might be offering you personal training. It will help you to find someone whose expertise will be genuinely ahead of the field and enable you to trust and relax, because you'll know for certain that you're in believably expert hands.
