Hands on Health one to one personal training can help and encourage you to achieve your goals. Whether you want to lose weight for that special occasion, increase muscle mass, tone up, improve your game or just simply get fit and healthy – we’ll get you there.
What to expect
On your first visit we’ll discuss your goals and make a personalised exercise plan to suit you. Each week we’ll give you hints and tips on the best ways to eat and work out whilst we put you through a fun exercise routine – it’s our aim to be a good teacher and guide as well as a trainer. What’s more you’ll find it a far cry away from the monotony of a normal gym, as we keep the exercises exciting and varied by tailoring the routines specifically to what you enjoy the most. Plus, the fun doesn’t have to stop when you leave, as when you sign up to personal training you’ll receive a starter pack with simple yet very effective ways to exercise – from the comfort of your own home. We’re passionate about fitness, which is why it’s important to us that we enhance your knowledge in order for you to live a happier, healthier and better lifestyle.
How we work
Many of our exercises are based on the principals of functional fitness. This new way of training in different planes of movement means you not only achieve your long-term goals, but also get your body moving in the right way. In our current daily lives we have less and less reason to move our bodies in different directions, you’ll find our main movements are up, down, sitting down and standing up. You probably won’t be aware of it but this limits our muscles to do any other movement throughout the day. Eventually this can weaken muscles and lead to injury when you put your body through even the simplest of tasks it may not be used too. For example you could be bench-pressing more than ever but these limiting lifestyle factors mean you could still manage to injure yourself when putting your toddler into a car seat. When training using functional fitness it focuses on integration, teaching your muscles to work together and build a body capable of doing real-life activities, not just lifting a certain amount of weight in an idealised posture created by a gym machine.
Functional fitness is also very effective at helping with specific problems such as areas that may lack movement, that are causing you pain or that are weak. By understanding your problems we can work with you and develop functional exercises tailored to your body and that improve your overall physical well-being.
