Older and younger populations have special requirements due to age, physical limits and possible health concerns associated with getting older. Therefore when training older and younger clients I have to ensure they are undertaking a training program best suited to there needs but also to take into account these possible limitations.

Here we will firstly look at older populations, the training methods I use and what possible limits we have to consider before embarking on a training regime.

OLDER POPULATIONS

As people approach old age they are more likely to develop a host of illnesses and ailments that will affect their ability to undertake physical activity. Knowing what exercises can be done is a major concern and can stop people from getting involved in any physical activity altogether, leading to increased weight, possible muscle degeneration and a lessened fitness level leading to an increased risk of heart disease, lack of stability and strength and possible injury to various joints and muscle groups. It is known that as adults age all of the following functions decrease:

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Training should be as low impact as possible, avoiding jarring and sudden power movements likely to put too much stress on joints and possibly causing injury. Jogging and running may have to be substituted for walking either at normal or fast paced. Supline - lying down exercise position such as press ups and sit ups may, due to an increased blood pressure, diabetes or injury may have to be altered in accordance with limitations.

What I offer as part of a typical training program for general fitness for the 'older populations' category

Dynamic tension training - this offers an unrivalled way for you to tone, strengthen and build density to your muscles using a very simple and ancient concept of working your muscles forces against each other. You can see it as weight training without the weights. This has a great advantage over many exercise disciplines is that injury from this dynamic tension training is almost completely unheard of. It will aid in injury recovery, correct any movement distortions you may have.

Fight training dynamics - rather than using traditional fight training methods such as heavy bag and pad work, intense aerobic shadow boxing and high impact training, I have broken it down to basics. I teach a different form but still use the same principles which is for muscle strength, stability, fat loss and correct exercise procedure. I do this by using my vast knowledge of corrective exercise techniques, dynamic tension training and flexibility training all revolved around the principles of fight training. You will get a safe and effective training schedule vastly superior to more traditional exercise methods.

Corrective flexibility - Here I work on posture, correct movement patterns for various exercises to get your body ready and adapted to the increased work you will undergo in pursuing your training goals.

Walking&Jogging - Dependant on your fitness levels and physical state I use walking and jogging as a base for aerobic fitness. This can come as simply undergoing a walking training circuit, then progressing to higher paced walking such as marching using the arms to build up aerobic intensity, through to light jogging and even altered terrain walking with or without the use of sticks. This will give you a very good general level of fitness without having to risk injury.

YOUNGER POPULATIONS

The past 20 years has seen a major unprecedented increase in obesity in children from the ages of 6 - 15 years of age. This has been a major problem for many years but is only just being treated as such. Children are fatter and more unhealthy for many reasons, this can lie with the parents, it can be medical, but the simple fact is that is almost always due to a lack of physical activity and poor diet. By altering a child's diet accordingly and increasing the amount of physical activity at an early age can have a drastic and positive effect on their lives.

The principle physical differences between children and adults have a major impact on physical performance:

Peak oxygen uptake - children display this differently than adults.

Submaximal oxygen demand - Economy of movement. Greater chance of fatigue and heat production during physical activity.

Glycolytic enzymes - this means that a childs ability to perform physical activity for extended periods of time is decreased.

Sweating rate - decreased tolerance to environmental extremes, particularly heat and humidity. This is due to children having a lower sweat rate than adults meaning that their bodies cannot be cooled efficiently enough.

With these points taken into consideration I can produce training programs for children of all ages to aid in fat loss should they be obese, strength, stamina and general fitness as well as for sports such as football, tennis or rugby. The training sessions I offer children differ from that of training adults only in 2 major ways - 1 is that the intensity has to be limited due to the above and 2 the sessions are geared to be more enjoyable and fun as children respond and adapt to this more positively and gain a heightened level of focus and discipline in a training environment.

For more information on the training I offer please contact me via phone or email              tel: 07528 759199  email: info@kevinphillips-pt.co.uk