Postcards from the coast
Aug. 7th, 2004 07:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninevirtues... the OTHER coast, not my recently usual one.
I'm staying with friends on a llama ranch near Half Moon Bay. Forty acres, twenty llamas, my friends, their parents, and a live-in handyman. Oh yeah, and a friendly cat, a welsh corgi puppy, and an Anatolian Shepherd dog. (Sampson, the dog in question, is as big as a small calf. At that size, it's a very good thing he's calm and friendly.)
A is preparing to launch a career as a personal trainer, so I've been showing him some stuff (bodyfat testing, exercise testing) and giving him "client scenarios" of actual people I trained to see how he'd handle it.
"What would you do if your overweight and very motivated client insisted on doing a thousand crunches a day? Why would that be bad?"
"What would you do if you had a training client who routinely puked in mid-session and tried to hide that?"
"What would you do if your client asked you why she ate three pieces of cake yesterday and she weighs LESS today than yesterday?"
And we played Body Charades, where I physically demonstrated the following:
"Say you have a client whose head is forward of the rest of his/her body. Why is that bad, what muscles are responsible for that, and how would you fix it?"
"Okay, now say your client's shoulder blades stick out at the bottom inside corners. Weakness in what muscle is responsible for that, and how do you fix it?"
"Last, you see that with your client standing in front of you, his knuckles point forward, not sideways, causing him to look a bit like a gorilla. What causes that, and how do you fix it?"
I already showed him the websites that help me sound like I know what I'm doing around food (a basal metabolism calculator, a website that lists calories burned during various kinds of exercise, and a food log website).
Later, I will probably get my act together and give him an organized list of common things women hate about their bodies and how to address them.
A will do fine as a personal trainer. He has way more people skills than I did when I started, and I suspect he will have more confidence when it comes to marketing himself. I'm having fun teaching, though, and I hope that what I'm telling him will help him easily handle situations that flummoxed me.
I'm staying with friends on a llama ranch near Half Moon Bay. Forty acres, twenty llamas, my friends, their parents, and a live-in handyman. Oh yeah, and a friendly cat, a welsh corgi puppy, and an Anatolian Shepherd dog. (Sampson, the dog in question, is as big as a small calf. At that size, it's a very good thing he's calm and friendly.)
A is preparing to launch a career as a personal trainer, so I've been showing him some stuff (bodyfat testing, exercise testing) and giving him "client scenarios" of actual people I trained to see how he'd handle it.
"What would you do if your overweight and very motivated client insisted on doing a thousand crunches a day? Why would that be bad?"
"What would you do if you had a training client who routinely puked in mid-session and tried to hide that?"
"What would you do if your client asked you why she ate three pieces of cake yesterday and she weighs LESS today than yesterday?"
And we played Body Charades, where I physically demonstrated the following:
"Say you have a client whose head is forward of the rest of his/her body. Why is that bad, what muscles are responsible for that, and how would you fix it?"
"Okay, now say your client's shoulder blades stick out at the bottom inside corners. Weakness in what muscle is responsible for that, and how do you fix it?"
"Last, you see that with your client standing in front of you, his knuckles point forward, not sideways, causing him to look a bit like a gorilla. What causes that, and how do you fix it?"
I already showed him the websites that help me sound like I know what I'm doing around food (a basal metabolism calculator, a website that lists calories burned during various kinds of exercise, and a food log website).
Later, I will probably get my act together and give him an organized list of common things women hate about their bodies and how to address them.
A will do fine as a personal trainer. He has way more people skills than I did when I started, and I suspect he will have more confidence when it comes to marketing himself. I'm having fun teaching, though, and I hope that what I'm telling him will help him easily handle situations that flummoxed me.
