I've told the boss I'm coming off here as it's like talking to the wall.
Liffey
Pretending to be my boss is patently ridiculous, especially based on being a self proclaimed literary style expert all of a sudden...
My boss only came on to state he thought I'd put matters too strongly.
Knicknack.... for your friend who's setting out.....there are 30 odd others at the same professional level in the UK..with the 'bits of paper' and the experience too, so the boss is far from unique,as those 30 others as good as him.
No, the boss is not unique as the other 30odd would attest to, but the overall reaction on here is why so many get problems down the line and I guess nothing can change that until a visit to the physio, chiropracter or osteopath becomes necessary at some point in the future for at least some
As for pretending to my own boss; that's probably the most ridiculous thing I've heard in many a year and is patently untrue.
On an everyday basis, I reply on his behalf to e mailed questions put to him,transfering his answers from his notes onto e mail for the enquirers who ask for answers. Similarities, if any do happen are not surprising, considering that I've been involved in doing it for over 20 years
You're a qualified personal trainer Liffey yet you keep calling Biomechanics ..Biometrics, which is one of the basic fundamental personal training titles.Also it's worthy of note that Physiology degrees are considerably different to Exercise Physiology degrees, the active state and normal state are vastly different propositions.
Other professionals aren't being dismissed, just being made aware that the most important skill to aquire a well developed level in, is the one that everything else hinges on...namely one that enables good recognition of how a client moves and what makes them different to everybody else.
This area needs to be studied far more, as realistic levels of Biomechanics (not Biometrics) are not provided in personal trainer courses anywhere. Trainers need to study it much further and in greater depth to keep their clients truly safe.That's all.
No matter which way you cut the cake, there isn't a personal trainer training organisation in existence that gives them sufficient knowledge of this area. They have to go onwards themselves. So do pass on this link to anyone at all, as that statement is stridently accurate.
My turn for huge LOL here. To my knowledge, the boss has never asked for deference of any description at any time and he's the most helpful of guys. My intention was to relay what level of pro could help me answer questions for you on here, but the blind, uneducated and sadly flippant reactions to the sophisticated advice that could have been received to aid any number of personal training problems is a real shame.
The Cuban government have requested the boss go over to Havana in May, to look into the possibilities of a personal trainer school there, as the probability of a more relaxed regime looks likely . It's an exploratory project, but gives you some idea of just how much knowledge the boss has and I could have tapped that resource for you on here.
But between Liffey.... the qualified YMCA personal trainer,who doesn't know the difference between Biomechanics and Biometrics, thinks Physiology is the same as Exercise Physiology, and others who only want their personal trainers to be able to make them jog harder as a criteria, it really is a lost cause on here as you can't help people with intentionally closed ears
I hear definite echoes of those folk in Buckinghamshire being a future probability and the thought, none so blind as those who won't see ' comes to mind.
I'm saying this because any real advanced professional advice would be lost on here, based on the responses of the 'limited' people who've made their comments.
Whatever the comments now, (I shan't be back,so don't bother with replies) and totally regardless of the obvious comments that will ensue, the points I've made are still factually sound, but unfortunately, clinical truths are not an easy pill to swallow for those who are actually part of the problem, and it's always such people who produce the 'gobbiest' reactions.
You never know, someone, somewhere on here, as a result, one..just maybe one woman.... might insist that their personal trainer is capable of testing their physical ranges and responses before working out and thus, not receive exercise that is wrong for their personal mechanics, and so avoid bringing forth the possibilities of a legacy of injury in later life.
As I said, don't bother posting replies, but in our files alone last year we received 674 e mails from people significantly injured by qualified personal trainer exercise prescription (their training times 12 weeks to 12 months) and not one of them had received a full Range of Motion Test..and the average eventual emergence time of the problems caused was 8-12 months.....think on, as those are again..hard facts.