REHABILITATIVE PERSONAL TRAINING
Restore your strength with one of our specialist rehabilitative personal trainers
Who is rehabilitative personal training for?
If you’ve experienced joint pain, back pain, or suffered an injury, our rehabilitative personal training (PT) is designed with you in mind. Our expert trainers are committed to helping you rediscover your strength and mobility, while teaching you how to care for your body in the long term. Our personalised programmes focus on improving core strength, joint stability, and overall mobility, allowing your body to move as it was meant to.
Is Rehabilitation Training right for me?
Whatever the severity of your condition, working with a Trainer, will able to help ease your symptoms, identify and combat the underlying cause, and help speed up your recovery.
Rehabilitative PT serves as the ideal next step following physiotherapy or chiropractic care, guiding you back to full strength and function. With our specialist trainers, you’ll not only help to alleviate pain and discomfort but also learn how to prevent future issues, paving the way for a healthier, more active lifestyle.
What to expect from rehabilitative personal training?
It’s all about you, and your recovery. Wherever necessary, we will liaise with your medical practitioner or therapist to make sure that we have all the relevant information that we need.
Whatever the cause, severity or stage of your injury or condition, the individual attention means that your techniques and levels of effort are monitored constantly to ensure that everything you’re doing is helping, rather than inadvertently aggravating the problem.
What does it involve?
1.MOVEMENT
Movement assessments are integral to all our programmes but they are particularly crucial in rehabilitation personal training. All training starts with an assessment of your posture, movement and mobility. This enables us to build a programme that allows you to progress steadily and safely while minimising the risk of re-injury.
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Our specialist rehabilitation personal trainers analyse how well you use your core from breathing to stability. We see this as the foundation of healthy, pain-free movement.
This insight helps us select the most effective exercises for proper core muscle activation, crucial for those who have experienced back pain. pain.
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During movement assessments, we examine your balance during everyday single-leg movements, vital for preventing hip, knee, and ankle injuries.
Joint stability is also essential; many joint problems stem from instability, so enhancing it can help protect against injury.
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“Move well then move often” is an adage we live by. Repeating poor quality movement can lead to injury.
Therefore we look at how you move through a range of exercises so that we know exactly what to focus on. Then you can safely progress without aggravating old injuries.
2. CORE FUNCTION & STABILITY
In clients with back pain or other injuries, or those with sedentary work lifestyles, core muscles often function improperly.
Training that targets core function improvement can boost back strength and stability and even improve how you breathe.
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Many people struggle with proper breathing, which hinders effective core muscle usage.
We’ll teach you exercises and techniques to breathe correctly, reducing neck and shoulder tension while strengthening your core muscles.
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The next key role of the core is to stabilise the spine and trunk, maintaining a healthy spine position while sitting, standing and moving.
Our coaches will show you how to properly engage the core muscles and use them correctly. You’ll see there is a lot more to core training than sit-ups and planks.
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Once you’ve mastered proper breathing and stabilisation, you can safely and efficiently perform dynamic movements, ideal for returning to demanding sports.
We’ll guide you through safely progressing to dynamic and loaded movements while using your body correctly.
3. MOVEMENT COACHING
Modern lifestyles often lead to poor movement, resulting in injury and pain due to inadequate joint, muscle, and tendon loading.
We coach you to enhance body movement, protecting joints, increasing flexibility, and promoting efficient movement in daily life or sports.
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Gain the flexibility and control to move well and minimise your injury risk. See what exercise are best for your body and your needs.
Our specialist trainers know that not all exercises are right for everyone. Therefore our programmes are designed to give you exactly the right exercises to safely progress.
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When walking, we spend more time on one leg than two, yet we often struggle with balance. Learn to properly use your muscles to keep you upright and stable.
Coordination also plays a huge role in keeping us free from injury whether in daily life or sports. Developing this ability will keep you agile and healthy.
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Poorly performed exercise can do us more harm than good, so learn how to perform exercises effectively and safely.
We’ll give you the coaching and feedback needed to boost your confidence to be able to train without fear of injury.
General questions
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Everyone is different – with different strengths, weakness, limb lengths, and training history. As such, you’ll never come to us and just be expected to lift big weights just because other people do. Instead, we’ll carefully assess you and your abilities, then begin strength training in a safe and considered way.
If you’re interested in how strength training and muscle gain can differ from person to person, we’ve talked to our personal trainers in London and explored this question in more detail on our blog: Should You Be Lifting Heavy Weights?
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Yes, we can. Grip strength is a factor that plays a huge role – both in personal training sessions and in everyday life. Our coaches will help identify if your grip strength could use some work, the programme the kinds of exercises that will help to boost that strength.
If you’d like to learn more about grip strength, we’ve created a dedicated blog on the subject: Why is Grip Strength Important?
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We can help you work towards any goal you have in mind – so yes, training to increase muscle size or ‘tone up’ is no problem and an area we have a lot of experience in.
We’ve created a blog that looks at hypertrophy and strength training – comparing and contrasting the two: What Does Hypertrophy of Muscles Mean?
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Almost certainly, yes. Most personal trainers will explain that as you exercise and get stronger, you’ll usually find that your levels of energy, focus, and general feeling of well-being increase too. It makes sense of course, the more your body is conditioned for performance, the more likely you are to get ultimate performance from your brain too!
Of course, exercise isn’t the answer to all mental health conditions, but even if you require medical support or medication, exercise is almost always going to be a helpful tool.
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If weight loss is one of your goals, muscle and strength building workouts are an important part of how you’ll get there. Your body requires more energy to maintain muscle than it does fat – so as your strength grows, so will the amount of calories that you naturally burn as you go about your day. The most striking body transformations always begin with strength training.
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Absolutely! No matter what you goal or current level of fitness, improving your strength is always going to offer benefits. The personal trainers at Trang fitness will be able to work with you and support you even if you’ve never stepped foot in gym before.
In fact, we’ve created a blog post that looks at this subject in more depth: Strength Training for Beginners.
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Yes, it definitely can. Runners will often avoid strength training fearing that it will make them bulky and reduce their performance.
This is often a misconception though. A well-rounded program for runners should include some strength training – especially because it helps with injury prevention and coordination.
Take a more detailed look at how it could work for you in our blog: Adding Strength Training to a Runner’s Workout Plan.