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September 1, 2008
The body is an amazingly complex system with a massive amount of differentiated cells to form different structures and organs to make it function as a whole. Even though there are so many things that can go wrong at any 1 time, most of the time, our body is in perfect harmony and not giving us anything to worry about.
Thinking you can isolate parts of your life and only choose those things you would “like to” improve is called wish-full thinking… Every part of your life has an influence on every other part of your life, whether you like it that way or not. There are 7 main areas of life… Spiritual, mental, vocational, financial, family, physical and social. I try to combine every aspect of life in all that I do, since a holistic approach usually solves the problem, it doesn’t just take away the symptoms.
What’s on offer?
1. Needs analysis and Screening:
Nothing can be achieved in life if you don’t follow a plan and have a good idea of where you are aiming to go. Understanding your reason for training, will help you to set goals and working out a program to get to what could be a massive goal, one step at a time. Type of training, frequency and goals is very important to clarify before you start. Your value systems are analysed to find the best way for you to train so you will keep it up and not get bored or de-motivated. Also, very important; your medical history will be reviewed to make sure you can train without harming your body. NLP-based visualisations will be done to make you more likely to get to your goals and to put you in the right mindset for focusing on the future you would like to create.
2. Postural analysis:
It is very important to establish if there are any imbalances or abnormalities in the body before you start a training regime. Training with abnormalities or imbalances can make the already existing problem worse, since the muscles that are weak will be dominated by the stronger muscles and increase the imbalance, which could cause pain and injury later on.
3. Core testing:
Your core muscles is your centre of movement… all movement starts here. The core muscles exist of 7 muscle groups surrounding the spine and abdominal area. Different than your arm or leg muscle, you don’t use your core muscles to move, but to stabilise. Without a strong core, you are more likely to injure/hurt your spine. Movement in the upper and lower extremities causes momentum and the only way for your body to control or stop the momentum in by using your core. Knowing what the weak links are; you can improve the strength and endurance of those muscles to reduce your chances of harming your body when doing exercise.
4. Measurements:
Basic - Knowing where you start will help you to see the progress in what you do. When you start training certain measurements will be taken, every couple of weeks after that the measurements will be done again to monitor your progress and see if you are on track to your ultimate goal. This is also a great tool to keep up your motivation, seeing a difference is like a reward that you get for your hard work.
Detailed - There are specific tests that can be done to understand and more fully comprehend the state of the body. Ex Cholesterol, Blood Pressure, Blood glucose, Body Water %, Muscle mass, Physique rating, Bone Density, Basal Metabolic rate, Visceral fat, Body Fat%. These can be taken every 3 months if there is something you would like to improve, or every 6-12 months if you just want to check up that your health is maintained.
5. Nutrition :
Basic nutritional information – There are very simple ways of eating healthy, but most people don’t know these things. You don’t have to go on a strict diet to loose weight. By doing a 7 day food diary analysis, we will be able to help you understand where you are going wrong and even give you advice on things you can improve even more. Basic principles of food and understanding your metabolism will help you to live a healthier life the easy way.
Full nutritional analysis – This programme is for people who are serious about either changing their health status, loosing weight, picking up weight by increasing muscle mass, or somebody with the need for more structure in their eating habits. 7 day food diary analysis, basic principles of food and helping you to understanding your metabolism will still be done as with the basic programme. But your BMR will also be calculated and based on your BMR (basic metabolic rate) and your Burn rate (amount of calories used by your body per day) a Macro nutrient breakdown will be formulated so that you will know exactly what your body needs every day to make a change or to sustain your current status.
Food Menu - Food content tables are given so you can keep working out your own diet daily and choose the foods you like.., however, if you don’t have time to create your own menu’s we can off course also do that for you.
Updates – As you continue with the full nutritional programme, your body will most likely change with regards to your BMR and your Burn rate, which means you will have to update this programme every 6 - 8 weeks.
6. Shopping and home visit
Not everybody has time in their day to plan healthy meals, buy the food and stock them in portion sizes… neither do they have time to weigh specifically how much should be in all their portions! If life keeps getting in the way of you living healthy, this will be absolutely worth it!
7. Coaching/counselling:
Values - Your value systems determine your life. Your energy, time, money and thought processes will be ruled by what is important to you. You will spend your time/money/energy in accordance with your values, your number 1 value will fill your life, with number 2 following close by. If saving money is the last value on your list, are you surprised that you never have money at the end of the month?
Perception - There is a perfect balance to life. Anything that happens to you in life is ruled by your perception of what happens. Nobody’s perceptions in life is right or wrong, everybody has a different perception and therefore live in their own reality. Loads of people hold on to the past because they can’t get over what happened to them/what somebody did to them or even what they did to somebody else. Because you can change somebody’s perception of an event, that will change the emotional attachment and help the person to “let go” of that experience and not let it influence them anymore.
Limiting beliefs - Limiting beliefs are things that people belief to be true based on information and experiences of what happened in their life. Not all beliefs are bad, but some are not based on the right information and may therefore hold people back in life. If you for instance belief that you have to be a bad person/steal and betray others to be rich, you will probably never gain wealth because of what it represents for you. This is a limiting belief, since that is just how you perceive things to be, and this might not be true. This belief system, therefore hold you back from becoming financially free.
Choice – You ALWAYS have a choice! If something is happening in your life that you are not happy with, you can always choose to change it. It might not always be easy, in that making a choice, means that you will have to let some things go and step into the unknown, but choice is always there. Another thing about choice is that you are the person who chose to be there in the first place. Now this might seem harsh to some of you, but you chose to have everything exactly as it is in this moment. Please do keep in mind that most of your choices are not made consciously, but subconsciously. Your subconscious mind accounts for about 95% of every choice that you make, if you want to loose weight, but you had a bad experience in your life while you were weighing less, that might keep you from loosing the weight since; in your subconscious mind, you don’t ever want to experience that again… and connects the experience with the weight.
8. Personal training:
Fitness training specially designed for your needs, goals and body type. The program will be designed according to your personality and it will keep changing to keep you interested and to keep your body from getting tolerant to the same exercise. Personal training is not something you do for a couple of weeks and then you go back to your old way of doing things. The idea behind personal training is to keep you accountable for reaching your goals, but also after that to sustain that goal… Unfortunately your body works on the principle “if you don’t use it, you loose it”! Personal training usually works best if you have 3-4 sessions a week (not all sessions has to be with your trainer) and then when you get to your goal, 2-3 times a week will be enough to sustain that level.
9. Massage:
Sometimes your body needs to get rid of build-up toxins in the lymph nodes, while other times you just need to relax the muscle fibres that you couldn’t get to while stretching. This service as all the others is done in the privacy of your own home (or optionally with professional equipment, at my house), so you can go straight to a warm bath and then to bed, without having to come out of your relaxation trance to travel. Massage can also be beneficial if you are stressed. Hormone release is one of the “side effects” of a massage and these hormones can help your mind to calm down and deal with reality better. Many people also use massage to have a detoxification effect on the body. The best time of the year to have this type of massage is from the beginning till the end of spring. Massage is always beneficial though, and can be done whenever you feel like it.
