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Personal Training Experience Paper

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Having the opportunity to experience training a peer has been an eye opening experience. My client was able to meet with me four times a week for 10 weeks. Also, my client’s commitment made my personal training journey much easier. Prior to the personal training practicum, the only experience I had was helping out coaching with my high school soccer team at Federal Way High, or training a friend here and there during my workouts. Fernando Sanchez was a clean slate to work with; he had no prior workout experience and mainly played soccer. His weight was low for his height and he wanted to gain more muscle so he could have the ability to be stronger and more physical in a normal competitive soccer match. Therefore, the first week of our personal training sessions, I went through a …show more content…

We began with a warm up, followed by the exercises. However, I made sure to limit the delayed onset muscle soreness since it was Fernando’s first time lifting weights in general. Therefore, I focused on lightweights and plenty of reps so Fernando can get used to the exercises and learn how to do the lifts before we can go deeper into the training session. After the first week, we began to lift heavier and heavier. My goal throughout for Fernando was to show him the correct techniques for lifts so he can continue working out without my help after our 10 weeks of training was over. After two to three weeks of lightweights and low reps, we increased the weight and decreased the reps so we could focus on building strength before hypertrophy. Weeks 4-8 were mainly used for strength building through each

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