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Newcomers go to the gym, because they can't practice, and especially want to train a good body in a short period of time, so they choose a fitness coach.
Today's headline hot list saw a news: a girl in Hebei, after training, the coach helped her stretch her muscles, resulting in a leg fracture, and can only lie in the hospital, while the head of the gym pointed out that "the girl herself has bone problems."
In September last year, a woman in Hefei, Anhui Province, was pulled off her leg by a coach while she was in yoga class.
There are a lot of similar things, basically injured during stretch training.
So how do newcomers find a professional fitness instructor?
1. Ideal body proportions
Try to choose a coach that matches your ideal body shape, rather than just looking at the coach's sweet and handsome appearance.
If you want to gain muscle quickly, it's best to find a muscular coach who is more focused on strength training and can get you started.
If you want to practice hips and vest line, it is best to find a female coach with a curvy body, because they usually focus more on hip and abdomen training, and have their own experience in diet.
In line with the muscles of moderate, body proportion coordination, this is the basic requirements for the coach, if the coach is very fat or very thin, do not meet your ideal value, you need to look at the next or give up the choice.
2. Professional theoretical knowledge
A professional fitness trainer should understand basic knowledge of exercise anatomy and sports nutrition.
For example, if you ask the coach "how to practice thick back muscles", if he directly takes you to do high pull-down, barbell hard pull and other instrumental actions, you ask him which muscle to train the back of this action, he can't say it or ambiguous, indicating that his professional knowledge is not enough.
A qualified coach should first design a set of movements that suit you according to your personal posture, muscle mass, training level, etc., and then explain what parts of this movement are practiced.
Make some adjustments based on your current diet plan to meet your basal metabolism, daily activities, and training needs.
3. Standard fitness moves
The following coach instructed the newcomer to do the "instrument reverse bird", obviously already in place, but she still let the little brother stretch backwards.
Originally, it was the action of practicing the posterior bundle of deltoid muscles, but the result was not only trained to the middle and lower part of the trapezius muscle, but also a passive stretch.
If it is a newcomer with poor flexibility, it will definitely cause damage to the shoulder joint and rotator cuff muscles, and coaches like this will not be qualified, and continuing to follow the training will only become worse and worse, and the risk of injury is very high.
Professional coaches should first do their own actions, explain the specific action essentials, and make a mistake demonstration, and then let you operate, and actively help you adjust the action posture to find the correct muscle force.
When helping you stretch your muscles, you should be constantly asked "whether you feel", and the whole process is very slow, there will be some pulling feelings, but after stretching, you feel that the muscles relax, indicating that the stretch is in place.
4. Perfect training plan
A qualified fitness instructor should set a training plan that suits you according to your personal physical condition, not the same as others.
At the same time, he also has to consider your training ability, whether you have fitness experience, whether you have joints and physical health problems, and whether your working hours and training time are coordinated.
For example, if you are often sedentary, whether it is losing weight or gaining muscle, you need to start with physical training.
If you are fat, but also to avoid some high-intensity training, you should first train from a fixed bicycle, with simple kneeling support and freehand squats, so that the body gradually adapts, and then gradually increase the amount of training.
During the whole process, there is not much fluctuation in breathing, heartbeat, etc., and there is no discomfort after the training, which is easier to adhere to.
Written at the end:
When you go to the gym to exercise, you should focus on your own training goals, and the ultimate goal is to practice a good body.
Find a professional fitness instructor to save time for self-study and quickly improve the training effect.
They should have a better body, professional fitness theory knowledge, correct movement demonstration explanation, but also design a training plan for individuals, and have these 4 aspects even if they are qualified coaches.
The fitness coach is more like a confidant who understands you, should know how to empathize, know what you want, and not be too egotistical.
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