Hiking Exercises

Georgia Personal Training

Hiking is a perfect sport to get a good physical workout and equally important, a wonderful mental escape that is great for peace of mind. At Georgia Personal Training, we support outdoor sports and activities such as hiking and also offer Hiking Exercises that can actually make the hike even more beneficial and less stressful on the body.

As with any sport, flexibility, endurance and muscle conditioning is equally important for hiking. Depending on the nature of the hiking trail, there can often be obstacles that the body must be equipped to take on. Often there are exposed tree roots or lose stones that can unexpectantly cause a hiker to stumble. The ability to regain balance can be the difference between sustaining injury or moving forward unimpeded by the obstacle. Also, depending on the elevation or the steady incline of the hill, cardiovascular strength will make that effort more tolerable. In addition, the decline of the hill during a hike requires strong leg muscles to support the knees and other joints.

The Georgia Personal Training Gym is equipped with state-of-the-art exercise equipment to address muscle conditioning and endurance. Things like squats, deadlifts, step-ups, downhill lunges, hanging knee raises and stretching all play an important role in overall body conditioning. The real secret is to have a qualified and experienced personal trainer at your side so that these exercises and more can be done correctly for maximum benefit while minimizing injury. These are the exact professional personal trainers you will find at Georgia Personal Training. Owners Matt and Brandi Lein ensure that each and every client receives their full attention. Below owner and personal trainer Matt Lein discusses the customization for training athletes.

A training program should not only be designed based on an athlete’s chosen sport, but on the specific needs of each individual athlete. Our goal is to help every one of our athletes reach their maximum athletic potential, and in doing so, help them achieve their dreams within their sport. To accomplish this, we must keep things specific and personal. This is why we do not offer large group or team training at our facility like many others do. The more athletes training at once, the more watered down and generic the training becomes. Especially when dealing with younger athletes that already require additional supervision and guidance to begin with.

A group class or team approach to training athletes is totally completely flawed concept. A 135-pound shortstop that runs a 6.5 60-yard dash should be trained completely differently than a 220-pound first baseman that runs a 7.6 but hits for big power. To have both of them going through an identical workout routine day after day and expecting optimal results for both is ridiculous. You’d think this would be self-explanatory, but the money that can be made by training 20 athletes at once is difficult for trainers to pass up, and most parents can’t discern the difference between “training” and “exercise”. They don’t understand that a generic workout that can be done by the whole team at once is going to be minimally impactful at best for their son or daughter. The best athletes in the world don’t train alongside a dozen of their teammates. They train in a one-on-one setting or in a small group of 2-4 athletes with several trainers running the session. They do this because they understand the importance of specificity and personal attention. They understand the only to stay at the top of the mountain is to keep distancing themselves from the rest of the pack.

At GPT, we believe every athlete that puts their trust in us deserves a program designed just for them. At GPT, we ask the question, “what is it going to take to get this kid a scholarship?” And that’s the foundation on which your program is built. We look closely at your athletic strengths and weaknesses and then decide how to best approach your training in order to reach your personal goals. Our sessions are either one on one, or small groups of 2-4 with a minimum of one trainer for every two athletes. Remember this, two dozen kids doing push-ups, planks, and running through the agility ladder are not “training” they are “exercising”. There’s a huge difference, and that difference may be the difference in a scholarship for your son or daughter.

Georgia Personal Training Fitness Center

Every year millions of people make the decision to join a health club and begin an exercise regimen. They do so with sincere aspirations of transforming their bodies and changing their lives. Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of these people will ever achieve any real tangible results. The vast majority are doomed to fail before they ever begin. Why? There are two primary reasons. First, the majority of people literally have no idea what to do or how to do it. More specifically, what type of training techniques are best for achieving a specific objective, and how to implement those techniques in a safe and effective manner. Second, most people simply do not have the discipline, patience, mental fortitude, and personal accountability to survive the ups and downs of the fitness roller coaster.

Here’s the reality. Changing the body is a science. Whether your goal is losing weight, building muscle, improving cardiovascular health, or rehabilitating an injury; transforming your body is an extremely difficult and complex process. Certain foundational principles must be understood in order to determine how one should approach a workout regimen, and which tools and methods should be utilized to achieve a desired objective. There are very specific and unique ways to strength train, cardio train, and diet depending on what a person’s goals are. And the truth is, most people do not possess the knowledge or experience to design and implement a training regimen that will produce actual results.

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