Network Magazine winter 2015 | Page 53

MEND BEFORE YOU STRENGTHEN CORRECTIVE EXERCISE PROGRAMMING Before you focus on clients’ strength, you need to work on reconditioning and rejuvenating damaged tissues. WORDS: JUSTIN PRICE ith almost 90 per cent of personal training clients experiencing muscle and joint pain, corrective exercise programming should be a mainstay of today’s fitness regimens. Following the rule of gradual progression that underpins all successful program design, clients’ movement imbalances and musculoskeletal deviations should be addressed logically and sequentially. Reconditioning and rejuvenating dam