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Originally Posted by Cynic
The mainstream of the public would do well to simply move weight in a well designed full body and incorporate some cardio/HIIT work. This is both logical and in keeping with my experience as a 44 yr old man who is simply trying to keep the effects of age at bay.
There is a need to allow the body to adapt and then take that comfort away by changing up movement patterns. The pure forms are good to use in any program, but not all the time, week after week, month after month. They make good assessment movement patterns but even that is hardly real world.
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Exactly.
Allerious, if you can afford to concentrate only on one narrow type of client, well then, good for you. MY niche, at MY little personal training gym, is the 40+ group (often 60+ group) who is, as Cynic says, just trying to keep the effects of age at bay.
My 50 year old client with the congenital disk-degeneration issue in his spine, isn't interested, or capable of, competitive body-building OR Olympic lifts. He WAS, however, incredibly pleased and suprised when, at a party, a guest (who didn't know him) assumed he was 35!!! (Granted, the fact that he still has ALL his hair helped! LOL)
Now, when you look at the general population, and you think about how to grow your business, I ask you...WHICH population will have the disposable income required to drive your business...hmmnnn, can you say BABY -BOOMERS?
Go ahead and target the 20ish muscleheads, if you like. But the growth, for our business, is in the older segment of our population. THAT's where I intend to specialize.
And how is functional fitness bad, exactly, if THAT's what enables my people to be able to get up out of a chair and up/down stairs in their 80s? Just curious...
- Jennifer