Often, we explain how personal training can help our clients not injure themselves while exercising. After all, the last thing you want to do when working toward fitness goals or be in the midst of training for a specific sport is to injure yourself. Then, you’ll be stuck trying to heal.
However, what we can also help with as personal trainers is to show you how you can rehabilitate yourself carefully over time. After studying and learning about injuries and the overall body, our personal trainers know what you need to stretch and how much pressure you should and shouldn’t put on certain muscles or limbs.
Injury Prevention
One of the best ways to prevent injuries is to incorporate resistance training in your personal training sessions. Resistance training is also referred to as strength training or weight training. You use muscular contraction within each exercise in a regular, consistent way. The result is that you can build the strength, endurance, and size of your skeletal muscles. This will help your body absorb more so you are less likely to injure yourself as you increase your physical activity.
This is where personal trainers can help with ensuring you have the right posture and are lifting the right amount of weight for current strength levels. A personal trainer will use free weights, machine weights, and even your own weight for resistance training.
Injury Recovery
It’s important to not continue training through an injury. Depending on what a physician tells you, there will be time off from using weights and doing exercise. As you are cleared to start again, you can work with a personal trainer who understands just how much pressure or stress you can put on that area.
They will show you how to slowly and carefully build that skeletal muscle back up again to the strength it was at before.
In the long run, doing so can add that strength in that can also prevent future injuries. Obviously, there is no guarantee. However, it can’t necessarily hurt you either to work with a personal trainer to return that muscle strength and endurance you once had.
Contact us today to try an initial consultation so we can discuss past or present injuries and then design a customized personal training program that gives you the strength you need to reach your fitness goals without injury.
