Shadowing Jeremy Train Clients

Yesterday I went with Jeremy to two clients' houses to shadow Jeremy as the trained them. I got up, and among other things, ate and packed my second meal. Jeremy picked me up, and we headed down to the first client, a older man named Ron, who's focus was on functional fitness.

The goal of this training was to help maintain muscle mass and general health to help reduce health issues that generally come with age. Dialog between the three of us carried throughout the workout, which is important because it keeps a client like Ron enjoying the workouts. The lifts were done with relatively light weight, and perfect form was not enforced so long as the practiced form would not result in injury (the largest problem with form that I saw was not having the full range of motion). Ron was not looking for extraordinary results, and so the intensity of the session is scaled to what he wants to accomplish; if you push people farther than what they want they will end up just quitting.

The second client, Lesley, was using Jeremy's training to help improve her tennis game. Her program had a sport specific focus to accommodate her goals, and her lifts often focused on building stabilization and muscle coordination. Her intensity was greater than Ron's; the time between sets was shorter, and more free-weight work was done. Lesley's was far more focused on the workout than Ron, and this was evident from the fact that the dialog between us pertained to the workout; Ron mostly joked around about topics not about what he was doing.

While her form was not ideal, and things such as proper breathing were not always demonstrated, Jeremy did not hound her about it. The social aspect of training others is what Jeremy stressed me to during our discussions about the sessions. Clients have to want to workout, and if you push them to hard they will give up. You also have to work with people who take their problems out on you, or blame you for lack of results when they do not follow through with aspects of training, like nutrition, which Jeremy cannot regulate for them. Jeremy has the knowledge to help people reach their goals, but much of what he does is helping people help themselves; rarely and easy task.