How do I train my clients hard enough while still keeping them safe? Recently, while building the Obsessed about Speed Transfer and also the Obsessed about Energy System courses, I noticed that usual Personal Training courses leave us short of answers when it comes to managing a client through fatigue and work rate. Our FTE student Paul Chipp inspired the question “How do I train my clients hard enough, while still keeping them safe?”. This seemed to be about how you would train a client to get maximum power, over the period of time you wish them to train for, while at the same time preventing them from a total burn out, if that is possible. Managing the fatigue levels of your client is important because, it can help you to prevent an injury in the session, improve the longer term physical response to training and gives you a good measurement to evaluate your program. Injuries are prevented by you the coach noticing that power output has dropped enough for the client you are training to have changed their biomechanics. Changes in physique and physical capabilities come from a mixture of the right intensity, volume and recovery. However if you are not getting enough out of your session for a good over load, then the improvements in physique or performance will be limited. In order to ensure a better result, then a focus on managing power output is vital. Fatigue There are two ways to look at fatigue, as an event where you hit a point of fatigue and as a process where you manage the effects of energy use. Fatigue as an event is similar to the way AV Hill described it, as in the body hits a terminal state and exercise stops. Due to the work done, one of the systems runs out of energy or hits an environment that causes it to stop working. This includes the central nervous system, heart, lunges and muscles. This is the way most academics measure performance and fatigue in the lab. They create artificial environments that then allow the athlete to work as hard as possible, before running out of energy completely. This is done without competitors and so limits some of the factors surrounding a competition, making the transfer of the test to the field difficult in a lot of circumstances. Fatigue as a feed forward protection control, is reliant on a whole number of factors. This model was put forward by Noakes and is called the central governor model. In this model, power output is initiated based on the knowledge (or lack of knowledge) of the up coming task by the athlete or client, experience and skill will determine this initial pace when knowledge of the upcoming task is not present. This initial pace will be one that is conservative to all the athlete or client to complete the task ahead of them. During the task, the pace will undulate to maintain a homeostasis, and then a final spurt of energy will be allowed to complete this task. Read the rest at www.fasterglobal.com

1. Hello, welcome to FASTER's Q&A video. My name is John and I vaguely look like the character with no hair!!
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Today I am going to share with you my answer to the question -!
"How do I train my clients hard enough while still keeping them safe?"!
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You need to watch this video if you are a trainer, because the answers may surprise you!

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6. Managing the fatigue levels of your client is important because, it can help you to prevent an injury in the
session, improve the longer term physical response to training and gives you a good measurement to
evaluate your program.

7. There are two ways to look at fatigue, as an event where you hit a point of fatigue and as a process where
you manage the effects of energy use.

8. Fatigue as an event is similar to the way AV Hill described it. It means that due to work done, one of the
systems runs out of energy or hits an environment that causes it to stop working. This includes the central
nervous system, heart, lunges and muscles.

9. Fatigue as a feed forward protection control, is reliant on a whole number of factors. These can be
chemical, psychological and environmental. Power out is controlled to protect energy reserves and
homeostasis. In this system fatigue has an input and output relationship with the body.

10. Control of a runners power output can be seen in races such as the 800 meters and further. The runners
show an initial pace, they undulate to maintain energy reserves, then finally they produce a spurt of
speed as the risk of running out of energy has now gone.

11. In order to summarise this tells us that-!
Your client will have more in the tank!
Motivation is vital if you want to hit an energy system hard !
The client knowing the session a head will change their initial speed!
A better experienced and skilled client will be able to work harder and for longer

12. By getting this far, I know you must be interested in fatigue management and so if you want to learn more,
then click one of the links below to get a free course, or learn about the two courses we have on fatigue in
training. Thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy the other videos on this channel.