I’M NOW PRE/POST NATAL QUALIFIED

August 9, 2024 / No Comments

Part of what I love about being a personal trainer is that to maintain your insurance you have to collect a certain number of CPD (Continuing Professional Development) points each year so as a profession we are constantly learning and developing our knowledge.

My personal career as a PT has evolved to the point that nearly all of my clients are women and so the next step for me was to get qualified to train pregnant and post-natal women. It’s a period in life where a woman’s relationship with her body changes and it can be a tricky time around fitness and physical activity.

I qualified with Premier Global recently and I’m now offering 1-to-1 PT sessions to pregnant and post-natal women. Get in touch and we can discuss your goals!

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SOPHIE LEARNS TO RUN: PART 1

August 8, 2024 / 1 Comment

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you’ll have seen that my relationship with running is very on/off. Sometimes I only hate it a bit and other times I’d rather stick forks in my eyes than run.

At the moment, I’m edging towards the forks but I’m bullying myself into doing parkrun whenever I can on a Saturday morning and today I started a series of sessions at The Running School.

Today’s session was just to video my running form at 3 different speeds, a jog, a run and a sprint. While I was warming up the lovely Nick chatted through my goals, any niggles and what races I had coming up while completely putting me at ease. Once the videos had been taken Nick sat me down to analyse what was going on.

Surprisingly for me he said that my basic form wasn’t too bad but that there were a couple of things we could simply fix. I’m a heel-striker which I always thought was an issue but apparently it isn’t! The real issues are that I’m hitting the ground in front of my centre of gravity rather than touching down under my body and that my quads and hip flexors are over-working. These both mean that my glutes are being lazy and not firing up.

I’ve been given some balance and glute exercises to start to eliminate some of the instability that I feel when I run so I’ll be doing at least 10 of them on each leg every day before my next session at the end of the week.

Watch this space to see how I improve!