Body Composition

Fitness assessments are a great tool to help with their goals. Fitness assessments should only be taken every six weeks.  A fitness assessment consists of resting heart rate, blood pressure, body composition, cardiovascular assessment, strength test, and flexibility test.  One of the important sections to a client in a fitness assessment is body composition.

Body composition is very important information for a client to know. Body composition gives the client an idea as to where they are at with their health. Body composition will allow a personal trainer to easily determine disease risk for the client.  It can also help the client set goals for themselves. Many people want to see results almost instantly. However, it takes time to see results. If someone is in a fitness program and they can see their body composition tracked on paper, they will be able to see that they are gradually improving.

Body composition is determined by height and weight measurements, Body Mass Index (also known as BMI), Waist to hip ratio, various skinfold measurements, bioelectrical impedance, hydrostatic weighing and a bod-pod measurement. However, hydrostatic weighing and bod-pod measurements are not used in typical fitness settings.

Body composition for certain clients can be difficult for them to perform. This is because for the clients that are considered obese, they can be very self-conscious about their weight, waist measurement, and hip measurement. You always want to ask permission to perform these measurements before you even start the fitness assessment. Make sure that the client understands what is going to happen and make sure that they are comfortable during the assessment.

Promoting Strong Bones

A Personal Trainer plays many roles in the Fitness Industry. One of these roles is promoting strong bones. A client looks to you for advice on just about everything when it comes to being healthy. You always want to make sure that you stress the importance of keeping healthy bones with your client. Your client cannot have strong muscles without healthy bones and vice versa. If your client approaches you with questions about how to maintain healthy bones, give them a couple of suggestions.  You could suggest a dietitian to change their diet and help increase their calcium intake.  The one suggestion that would be the most important to you as a personal trainer would be the clients exercise routine. If the client is not doing many weight bearing exercises, then you could suggest to them that you help them change their workout routine. A few weight bearing exercises that your client can do to increase or maintain bone health are walking, running, and dancing.  There are also a few factors in our lives that can affect how healthy our bones are. Those factors are but not limited to: activity level, smoking and alcohol consumption level. You should suggest to your client to keep an active life style, limit or end smoking entirely and limit alcohol consumption. In order to your client promote strong bones with your client, suggest that they stay active with weight bearing exercises, have a calcium rich diet, do not smoke and have little alcohol at a time.

The Role of Customer Service in the Fitness and Wellness Industry

Customer Service has a very important role in the Fitness and Wellness industry. Customer Service is very important because it is the foundation of the Personal Trainer’s career. You cannot be a Personal Trainer with poor Customer Service skills. If you are, then it there is a high probability that you do not have very many clients, your clients do not enjoy your services or you would not be a personal trainer for very long because of the lack of business that you bring. If your clients do not like your services, then they will complain to others and decrease your reputation. Decreasing your reputation will decrease the amount of you have, thus decreasing your time in the industry.

However, if you want to have a good chance of succeeding in the Fitness and Wellness industry as a Personal Trainer,  then you will need to have great Customer Service skills. If you have great Customer Service skills as a Personal Trainer then you are more likely to have a lot of clients who enjoy your services. If your clients enjoy your services then they will tell others about you and increase your reputation which can give you more clients.The more clients that you have the more money you make and the longer you will be in the Fitness and Wellness industry.

Customer Service can really impact how you do in the Fitness and wellness industry. So make sure that you have great Customer Service skills if you really want to succeed in this industry.

My Role in Hypertension Awareness and Education

I want to make sure that I play a big role in hypertension awareness and education. Not many people know much about hypertension. In order to expand the awareness of hypertension, I would go and talk to as many people as I can to see what they know about hypertension. If they do not know much, I would tell them that it can be dangerous, there are many things that cause hypertension and there are many ways to lower blood pressure back to normal. The places that I would visit to spread awareness would be high schools and colleges. Those are the places where the people have the ability to comprehend the topic and yet still lack the knowledge

My First Semester at FCC

I thoroughly enjoyed my first semester at Fairfield Career Center. Even though it was a lot of work, I feel as if that is worth it. All of this work is going to prepare me for college. I may not necessarily appreciate it right now but I know that I will in the future. This is teaching me early on how to manage my time wisely. I feel like my home school would not have done a good as job as you have. Because I chose to come here, I have made a lot of new friends that otherwise, I would have never met if I had stayed at Reynoldsburg. I am very happy with my choice and I cannot wait for next semester.

Multi-lab Zumba

The Multi-lab Zumba class was very fun. I enjoyed seeing everyone dancing and having fun with their friends. The other labs seemed to enjoy it. It was a good idea to let some students help lead a couple of the dances. They seemed to enjoy leading the Cha-Cha Slide at the end of the class. I feel that a lot of the labs were unprepared for the experience. A lot of the students did not have the proper clothes and did not participate. I also think that they were surprised at some of the dance moves that we did. Overall, it was a great experience and I cannot wait to do it again.

Success

I believe that there are a few things that make a person successful. The first is that you have to enjoy what you do. If you do not enjoy what you do, then you will not be motivated to do your job and will not perform it well. Not performing well could cause you to lose your job. The other important thing is that a person needs to be successful is work ethic. If you do not work hard at your job then you will never be successful. The next thing a person needs is training and knowledge of their job. If they do not know what they are doing then how can they be successful?

About Me

My name is Sarah Welday. I am a seventeen year old junior at Reynoldsburg High School and Fairfield Career Center. At Fairfield Career Center, I am studying Exercise Science.  I do not attend any classes at Reynoldsburg however, I am still enrolled at that school. I decided to study exercise science because I want to be a physical therapist. I want to be a physical therapist because of my brother, who has cerebral palsy. I volunteer three days a week at therapeutic horseback riding center. The riding center is a PATH international facility. Each lesson is one hour long and we work with many different types of people from all ages.