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Personal Trainer Behavior Essay

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The first step in dealing with any client is to establish yourself as a professional. In order to find out what is best for your client, you need to find out more about them, such as some of their personal life and what they intend to do (or what they want to accomplish) in the gym. Developing a positive relationship as well as a client rapport is imperative to any personal trainer. The personal trainer should also know his or her craft, be sincere, lead with integrity, show enthusiasm, and use sound ethics when working with clients (do not form intimate relationships with them). The next step is to collect as much data as you can from the client, such as medical health, training progress, consent forms, etc. The next couple of steps are designed …show more content…

Because Diana Prince is under the age of 40 and does not display symptoms of cardiovascular disease, she doesn’t have coronary risk factors, and doesn’t have any physical findings (murmurs, tumors), she does not have to take the GXT (graded exercise test) before starting her exercise regimen. Next, I want to find Mrs. Prince’s resting heart rate in order to see what her target exercise heart rate is is going to want to work out at an intensity of 60-80 percent of her VO2 max. As a trainer and based on her goals, I want her to workout at an intensity of 70%. Using the Karvonen Formula, I can calculate her target heart rate in beats per minute. (220-age (37)-resting heart rate (75) multiply by .70 (exercise intensity) + 75(add heart rate in). I found her target heart rate to be 150.6(or about 151 beats per minute) if she workout at an intensity of 70%. (While doing cardio use the hand sensors to track heart rate and adjust as necessary. There are a couple different tests I will give my client to establish her cardiovascular endurance. I will perform the 12-Minute Run-Walk test. In 12 minutes, if her distance is under .95 miles, she has very poor cardiovascular endurance (.95-1.14 miles is poor; 1.15-1.39 is fair; 1.40-1.64 is good and over 1.64 is excellent). Just to make sure this test wasn’t wrong: I will also have her perform the Step Test. This test only lasts for three minutes therefore only …show more content…

Since she doesn’t have any medical conditions, she can perform the one rep max test. In order to find her 1 rep max, multiply her weight (165) by .49 (minimum value for fair for her age group)- her one rep bench test should be around 80 lbs. If she can do more than this, then move to the max value of fair (do not push your client to far as injury could occur- only increase in slow increments). The next test would be the lower body test (one rep max for leg press). Find your clients one rep max (through trial and error) and divide by her weight to come up with a value. Assess from there. Her flexibility would be testing next through the zipper stretch (take right hand over right shoulder and bring left hand up the back. Measure the distance between the two hands…. Switch arms and repeat) and the sit and reach (sit on the floor with legs out straight. Shoes off. Feet are placed flat against a box with both knees held flat against the floor as far as possible and holds the greatest stretch for two seconds… no jerky movements… and measure). Muscular endurance tests are next. Pushups (on knees if Diana so chooses) are the measurement for this (less than 4 is very poor; 8-11 is poor; 14-19 is fair; 20-24 is good; 26-31 is excellent; 33-56 and beyond is superior). The sit up test is next (11 and below is very poor; 15-20 is poor; 21-25 is fair; 26-29 is good; 30-35 is excellent; 38 and above is

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