Fitness and Nutrition - Evidence Based Blog: PT for beginner clients

Today I'm uploading a program that I designed for Personal Training a beginner client. Peter is 47 yrs ancient, he was unfit and out of shape when we began (about 5 weeks back) but he did have a history of competitive rowing and tall levels of fitness in his youth. Please note, due to his exercise history I'm not treating Peter as a total beginner and some exercises (e.g. box jumps) are not suitable for clients with zero training age.

Pete was suffering from a range of issues when we began, he felt that he needed to lose 10Kg. He also suffered some bursitis in his shoulder, and had destitute posture (rounded shoulders). Pete was having regular physio for these issues and I worked with him to make certain I was doing leangs that were going to complement the physio work and not make any of his issues worse.

I'm having the "large" re-appraisal with Pete this week, we've been training just over a month and I believe this is long enough to make measurable changes against his key degreements. We had a weigh-in after two weeks and he had lost 3Kg which I thought was a great result.

I decided to split Pete's program (two days), because I wanted to work on a variety of leangs with him and I also wanted to avoid DOMS interfering with his subsequent workouts too much when he first began. I'll probably progress Pete to a three-day split soon.

I've saved Pete's program on Google Docs so you can see it via this link so check it out.