DISABILITIES
Training for disabled clients
Training an individual who is disabled can be more challenging than training a non disabled person. Occasionally this can scare personal trainers off due to the fact that they are unable to adapt their training techniques and apply them in an effective manner.
Dom is our resident trainer for people with disabilities. He’s worked with people of all ages and disabilities from children with learning difficulties through to elderly people with serious physical impairments.
Dom decided to move into training disabled people as his mother has Multiple Sclerosis and he felt that she could benefit greatly from exercise. Since then he has been on several disability courses and trained many people with various ailments or disabilities. He believes that no matter what your disability, there is always some form of exercise which can benefit you.
When presented with the opportunity to train a disabled client Dom adopts the attitude of 'what can you do?' not 'what can't you do?'. He will use this information and combine it with his existing knowledge of fitness, his knowledge of the specific disability and any exercise preferences the client may have to design a regime that will suit them, whatever their needs.