Bosu Personal Training with Celia - Simon Tranter

Celia’s session today focused on using the Bosu for the majority of the exercises. The Bosu is an excellent tool to use with all clients incorporating core stability to an exercise. Celia performed squats, bicep curls and a shoulder press all standing on the Bosu. This made sure Celia activated her core throughout the exercises to enable her to keep good technique and maintain posture throughout.

As well as standing on the Bosu performing exercises, Celia also did ¾ press up with her hands holding onto the Bosu and a plank positioning her forearms on the bosu (see pic). Again with a press up this makes sure the core is engaged throughout and increasing the intensity to a basic plank. Celia performed no crunches or stomach exercises during her session today yet because we used the Bosu to perform some basic exercise's her core and abdominal muscles got a really good challenging workout.

I strongly recommend using a Bosu as part of your fitness program whether working as a Personal Trainer or training on your own. Get out there and try it!

Why not try the exercises shown on the link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8mcHyfFvQI&noredirect=1

Personal Training with Celia - Josh Hopkinson

Today we worked on Celias stamina to work towards her weight loss goals.

The Training Style I got Celia doing today was quite high intensity cross training which is used by the royal air force when training for fitness tests.

I toned down the royal air forces work-out for Celia.

The basis of this training is starting with a particular number of reps on 3-4 different exercises then working your way down to just one rep.

The exercises Celia completed today are as follows:

• Swiss ball crunches
• Frontal/Lat Raise with resistance band
• Narrow Row Squats (suspension training)
• Studio Shuttle Runs

Once I had taken Celia through all the exercises to ensure she understood how to perform each with good technique, we began.

Starting with 10 crunches moving quickly into 10 Frontal/lat raises then into 10 narrow row squats and finished the set with 10 quick shuttle runs of our studio.

Stage 10 complete!

We then repeated this but now doing 9 reps on each exercise, bare in mind that throughout this whole work out there are no rest periods so Celias heart rate remained with in 60-80% of her max heart rate through out the whole session. Once stage 9 was complete we then began stage 8 (8reps on each). We repeated this until we got down to 1 rep on each exercise! Demanding stuff.

Celia’s work rate through out this whole work out was fantastic which just shows how much she wants the results. With our personal training expertise and Celia’s hard work she is on her way to achieving her desired results.

Great work Celia!!

Well done.

Josh Hopkinson.