Look good and feel great in your body

Mike has achieved amazing results with clients of all types and ages, and assists each client in achieving their goals.

Weight training has many benefits whether for sports or for someone wanting to "tone up" or lose body fat. It can improve your posture and body awareness or how you "feel" in your body, and effect weight loss and reduce blood pressure.

Training will include every major muscle group and movement pattern as well as to develop stabilizing muscles (e.g. rotator cuff and forearm) and "core" strength (abdominals and lower back).

Most sports require a combination of muscular strength, power and endurance.

Training must first build muscle bulk (hypertrophy) and strength, and then develop into power or endurance. You will use your body weight, free weights (e.g. barbells, dumbbells, kettlebell, medicine ball) or equipment (e.g. weight stacks, cable machines) to target specific muscle groups and movements.

• Power training improves how fast you can develop force, and methods such as plyometrics can be used, but only after you have developed sufficient strength.

Some basic assessments of performance will be made including bench press; T-bar row; endurance; and flexibility at the start and at Weeks 5, 10, 18 and 30. This helps define your goals and show progress.

Your training plan will be "periodized" so that you develop a solid fitness foundation and then change the exercises, intensity, or volume to develop strength, power and endurance, with less risk of "overtraining".