You're listening to fit processions were parallel coaching episode number five. Hi. I'm Neil Bergman and in today's podcast myself and heylia talking about why A and P is important. So stay tuned. Hi, I'm Neil Bergman and I'm Haley Bergman over the last 10 years. We've helped thousands of Fitness professionals to get qualified learn with Simplicity and Coach clients with confidence with the first to say that learning and being a fitpro doesn't have to be hard work and that With the right structure support and resources, you can become a confident and knowledgeable business professional that is dedicated to more. So how do you learn qualify and Kickstart as a fifth row? This is the fit processions podcast with parallel coaching. It's a tag team effort today. I'm Neil. Here's Haley. Hello. Hello, and on all of our previous episodes where we've tag-teamed. We've been in two different places, but today sitting to the right of me you can see if you're watching on YouTube. Here is the lovely pay you back. There we go. So, Is all about revision and understanding anatomy and physiology. So every week every Thursday, we drop a new episode all about revision to kick start your studies get you on your way and hopefully add a bit more structure and understanding the reasons why it's important to know outside of just the exam and I think that's the main message for today Haley. Absolutely. Yeah. So about understanding Anatomy is not just part of your assessment that you have to do as part of your your exams as part of becoming a fitness professional but also why it's important to refresh that knowledge and hold onto that knowledge so that you can really truly be that outstanding coach that we talking about in all of these fit processions. So over the last I'm going to save more so the last four or five years since we've had the revision bootcamps. We've seen almost 7,000 people come through the boot camps to challenge their revision to Find that final understanding the missing links to their their knowledge. And one thing I've seen is a trend is it's all about passing the exam which I get it. It's important is super important. You've got to get 70% or above the focus becomes on. How do I get 70% of above? How do I get the 28 hour 40 and then I'm done. I've passed I've got my qualification and now I can just move on and jump into the funky sexy stuff working with a client dishing out exercises burpees here. Bench presses over there, but I'm going to say I'm going to say we drop that for understanding of how anatomy and physiology assist in getting the client the goal. Yeah, and I totally understand that Viewpoint because it can let it can feel so scary and of negative you're winding up to this exam and yet the thing the other side of them of them the nice green grass on the other side is being able to have that fun time with your clients and that Go and start your career and it feels like this horrible color obstacle that you've just got to get over and therefore people don't generally end up enjoying learning about. Yeah, that's the point body. Yeah, and then don't necessarily want to hold on to that because it just reminds them of cramming for the exam and the likelihood is you know, I've mentioned it on a number of podcast certainly in his first week, but a lot of people get into fitness because they've had their own body transformation. They've maybe you're listening you've dropped a lot of weight or you've changed your physique or you've gained more confidence or or you've changed your State of Mind mental health and tackled depression anxiety and stress and what not, you know exercise means something different for everybody because of that you've had your own transformation and you feel that you can go on and assist other people but must have or have similar problems to what you had and you know, you can help them and at that point, I don't think those were I'd certainly didn't I certainly didn't have a consideration, but I'd have to learn anatomy and physiology. I'll be really honest. I think I thought it was just gonna be lots of exercises that I'm just gonna learn all the different exercise and someone tout would tell me the order to do them in four different goals or something and suddenly, you know, the manual drops on a doorstep as this big fart and you know, we send manuals out every week and Learners phone up and you know feel a little bit overwhelmed of like, oh my god, really? I didn't I didn't consider this to be the case. It can feel a bit overwhelming especially then thought you going to get assessed on as an exam and Then like I said in becomes this blot that you kind of just want to ignore and not feel like you have to learn that fully and take it on board to sometimes. I think the importance of it is missed. So I want to kick-start and understand this episode is all about why is a and py is anatomy and physiology important not just for the exam but past that as well. Yeah, and then at the end of the episode, I got a revision power hour, so I then I've got five minutes where I'm going to guide your revision and fully Supercharge your efforts time energy and focus inside the revision. I forgot about that. Yeah, here we go. I love about that revision power that you're doing at the end is that it's not just if you're preparing for an exam, but if you need to stay focused in your studies regardless, even if it's not for your AP exam you can use the same format the whole way through so you can even if you're not doing your exam still stick around for that power our because it'll be really efficient from okay. Yeah. Maybe you're doing your course El AP. Us worksheets maybe you're doing your planning documents, maybe your your practical assessment but it's 60 Minutes or 30 minutes is half a power 6 minutes as a full power our where you can fully get into the nitty-gritty and have focus and I'm going to introduce you to a Time technique to hack your mind. So you stay focused. So I want to know Haley we can't just jump straight into Y is A&P important and that's being physiology without understanding what and that Physiology is sick and boy based on that Haley is the main presenter for all of our boot camps her understanding of anatomy and physiology is phenomenal. So I'm going to pass it over to you. Thanks. So and that's when physiology sounds just like some long complicated words that over time. We just end up linking to meaning something about the body but in when you break it down in real simple terms and that means the study of the structure and relationship with body parts. So structure wise it could be to learn about the long bone of the femur and the fact that you've got tibia and fibula as well, but the relationship between those two parts being the knee joint. So that's the anatomy side. But physiology is then study of the function. Like what does that allow us to do the fact that we've got these bones and that joint. What does that allow us to do in terms of the body moving through space in terms of being able to Move, so yeah, and that to me is more about the structure and relationship and Physiology is more about the function of body parts and as a whole and how the body comes together as a whole. So another example Haley just used FEMA over the long bone in the upper leg the knee joint and member two bones in the lower leg. You could say well take the humerus. For example in the arm. That would be the anatomy the long bone and then you've got the ulna and radius and together. They create the elbow joint, which is a hinge joint. So now we're talking about the anatomy in the relationship of those bones and our physiology is for function. So what can the hinge joint do what plane of movement can it move through and axis of movement hundred percent on that? So we're skipping between some level 2 and level 3 knowledge here. That's okay. We're going to we're going to dial in each one of these processes very shortly or systems within the body, but just know that the anatomy is for structure. Relationship of a body parts, well as a physiologist for studying function of those body parts as a whole nice. Okay. So we've used for skeletal system there. Let's look at the muscular system very quickly. Give me a quick example. What is the anatomy and physiology of save a muscular system. So like the structure of a muscle would include understanding that sliding filament theory where you've got your endomysium and your muscle fibers and your classical and your perimysium. So all these different layers. Layers within the muscle itself physiology structure physiology is them how that allows you to have a concentric and eccentric contraction. So a shortening contraction and that lengthening contraction. So that gives Wicked I love it. So that's what anatomy and physiology is okay and and maybe in the power you could go through the anatomy and physiology of all of the subsystems of the body. So the anatomy of the heart and therefore the function of the heart. I'm not to me of the save a respiratory system and the function of the respiratory system. We've given you the muscles and the rascally to one's for free here. You could go through the the anatomy of the nervous system and therefore the function of the nervous system, but moment you understand just the anatomy of the system and the function of the system. Suddenly, I guarantee I guarantee you'll have like a penny drop light bulb moment and a lot more things will make sense because you're talking about the And the function of them absolutely. So the why why is it important and I came up with a wicked analogy don't you wanna know what else to do this? You know what I told Haley, I mean it is so why is anatomy physiology important and I said to Haley early as we're planning this episode is kind of like being a car and a car mechanic. So imagine a car mechanic having no understanding or knowledge of a parts or workings of the car I got Haley a question for you, if you knew your mechanic had no understanding or no knowledge of the parts of a workings of a car. Would you let him or her work on your car? I would let them have a banger loan my prized possession of car. No way. No way. It's that is a guaranteed. No. No, isn't it? You're not going to let him have a gun. Okay, you're not gonna let him anywhere near them because you know, you're not going to be safe to drive and you know, it's not going to be effective because you know, you're just going to be pouring. Money down the drain you're going to have to go to another mechanic later on you might as well do it yourself. If you have the same amount of knowledge. So this is the thing. So in order to adequately care and guide and be the coach for you want to be and guide someone towards a specific goal. You must understand the human body just like for car mechanic must understand for parts and workings of a car. Yes. Okay a stick. I love that analogy just Have to relate to that so final point would be it's like having an owner's manual for the body. So learning anatomy and physiology for your own body is like having one of those Haynes owner manual. I was trying to remember the name is Haley is Haynes. I was that a arac. I didn't know ownership manual. So you've got that that clear understanding and I suppose if you open up an anatomy and physiology book like a good one that shows all the The different systems in the body. It is kind of a bit like a manual for the body and understanding what's in it and I think when you relate that information to them what you learn in the rest of your Fitness knowledge, then it becomes something really useful 16 with the with the car and the mechanic, you know you I'm not a mechanic. I know nothing about cars, but I do know that the steering wheel has an impact on the wheels. Yes and the wheels. Have an impact on my safety. No, I do understand that. I can't move without the accelerator and Clutch & Gear and give whatever cotton socks. This is about as good as my my understanding of the project. Yeah, so I must understand the parts of a car and now the workings of them and how the relationship between the steering wheel and the front wheels over. The driving Wheels actually come together to get you from A to B. I love this analogy because this is we're really talking about how these parts and systems interact with each other. So when we look at the body the body has a number of it's all anatomy and physiology but a number of roles and functions affect all of the other body systems. So I know I'm awful in now, but really it's great. The main thing I want to highlight is, you know, like for Carver steering wheel effects for Wills. Okay, so my heart affects how I feel in the legs when I'm running. Yes, or yes. Okay. So all of these system has a knock-on effect on the other is completely completely anything you can add on to that one because you're like the A&P Queen here and just sure thanks. Yeah. So with each system reflecting the other system. I think that's probably the main part of the physiology part of anatomy and physiology that you need to Aware as a fitpro and using that information with your clients. So if you see your client moving in a certain way, they come to you through your first consultation with them you're looking for Clues to find out how they've been treating their body or in Neil's metaphor of the car mechanic your that mechanics at they're doing a diagnostic of that car finding out what's going on. And as you do that diagnostic you're looking for the relationship between things you're looking for Clues. Used to take they've been ragging this car really badly or they've been running it with no fuel. They put the wrong fuel in the tank or they've been running with a different light out of alignment and you can then see these just by being really understanding of the body and you can actually see this in a really good PT compare. Well, that's probably a bit harsh. But if you see somebody who is a great PT somebody that would charge maybe a lot more than other PT's as well. You would expect to achieve to receive a certain amount of Knowledge from them or that a certain amount of knowledge went into that same with the car mechanic. I know you know somebody that is that charges a lot as a car mechanic in terms of the type of car that he works on his very specialist type of car and as a result, he finally choose all the smallest little parts and make sure that they all relate to each other perfectly. That you get the result you need in that car with that I take from all of that really is that when you take the car to the mechanic mechanic the first 30 minutes or first hour or first couple of hours potentially, even the first day depending on what's wrong with it, but car mechanic is kind of figuring out what the hell is wrong with this car. It's kind of like he's been given a half completed Sudoku puzzle and he's got a reverse engineer all of the problems in the puzzle. In order to move on does that make sense? Yeah, so that will come mechanic has to really diagnose and find out what this has happened and that caused that to happen and that caused this to happen and therefore that's why we're in this particular place right. Now. The situation is X these are facts. This is the environment within and because we're here we can now move forwards and I think that's what makes an outstanding Fitness professional personal trainer. Yoga Pilates teacher whatever is when a client walks in your thinking. Okay, let's not just jump Straight Into Fitness. Because that's what they're expecting the might expect in, right? Yeah get going on exercise. But reality is I've got to figure out what are all of the body's systems and that's me parts of our body and the function of physiology what's happened in the last let's say 30 days free months six months nine months a year five years what's happened in the last 10 years to bring this person to me today and say this is for state of the anatomy and physiology and reverse-engineer it and say, you know, You're inactive sedentary lifestyle has caused your heart and lungs to be here. You're a spiritual systems for hear your skeletal system and functions. Be here your joint and Joint actions to be here x y&z, and I'm going to do a variety of consultations and body mot s so to fully understand what is the state of the clients and at in physiology in order to move forward because without knowing that you're ready without knowing that you don't know where you are. Therefore you cannot start. Let's go. With the call analogy, it would be like me driving. We live down in Plymouth and our main academies in young Keynes. It would be like me trying to get to Milton Keynes but not knowing where I start. Yes, so I have to find a start point in the clients anatomy and physiology in order to get to their goal. Now the clients always going to turn up and say I want to lose weight. I want to do this Park Runaway want to do this Ultra Runner I want to do this obstacle course race. So I want to do is powerlifting show. I want to get on stage or I've got a wedding to go to I want to go on holiday in take my shirt off. We they know what they want at surface level at the end, but we don't know and they don't fully know the facts of where they start and this is my point. I suppose I want to really drive home of why it's important because if you don't know where the anatomy physiology starts we cannot move forwards towards the goal purely because we have to adapt each one of these systems within the body server. The heart and lungs were a spiritual system a skeletal system, but the joints for muscular system the nervous system the energy systems over a period of time to specifically adapt towards for gold absolutely boom. Boom. Boom. So I want to pass Haley over and talk about what is your ways? You can literally just going to summarize that the most important thing that Neil spoke about there is the importance of that diagnostic that importance of that mot at the beginning among yourselves up car mechanic. You've got to find out where they are now so you can map that to where they want to go. So, where is that a where is their point B and then you can start looking at programming so really and that's being physiology is the precursor the thing that happens before any planning can even happen. Yes. So amazed so for precursor before any planning can happen. So planning being verb, you know, what intervals you're going to give them what training systems you're going to give them. Sets reps Tempo time range of movement rest volume you're going to give up and the last thing that I say the last thing to actually go into the this plan for the client is what exercise are they going to do yet? I'm gonna put it out there and I was guilty of this for first thing. I thought about as being a PT was what exercise my going to give them and I'm going to say I'm going to be the first to say the exercises almost there is a irrelevant if I get get the understanding of what Anatomy physiology systems do I need to adapt I can now plan in a much smarter way. And then the last thing to be kind of programmed in is the exercise. So amazing. Whoop There we go. What you're talking about. There is adaptations adaptations adaptations in is why we do training is the only reason why our clients are doing a plan is the only reason why we may have got a result. Through exercising in anything else that we've done ourselves. Our body has adapted over a period of time to a specific demand. So we've gone from one state to another state so our clients gone from one state in their body, whereby they've maybe been inactive sedentary deconditioned a little bit overweight a little few extra pounds around the belly find it tough to lift weights from selves find it tough to even get up a chair little bit low back pain. Pain, that's one state all the way through to say 12 weeks or 16 weeks later. The new state is the can give out the chair the complete opposite to all of that. So we've specifically adapted from A to B. Yes, and that's why that's why we need to know a exactly you need to know and it's also links into a principle called the said principle if you haven't heard of this before then prick your ears up so specific adaptation to imposed mmm. Armed is a pricked up said principle now. It sounds a little bit wordy doesn't it? But what it means is that there's because it is a word it's a word there is an imposed demanding really sarcastic. So we impose a demand on our body. Let's say that we're going for a run and we get to a certain level of overload. It challenges us and as a result of challenging us, we've put a demand on our body with stress. Is that Ali as a result our body will specifically adapt our heart our circulatory system our respiratory system our muscles our network of capillaries around all our muscles. It will make our bones stronger or make our joint stronger Energy System will change our nervous system will change everything will change. So every single system in the anatomy of our body will change and the function of that will improve. Yeah better exactly and then A result you can now go out for a run and go faster fitter or further as a result. So you end up progressing and that progression is all a result of that specific adaptation to imposed demand and the other sides of that is said specific adaptations would impose them on still works for an inactive or deconditioned client? So let's say for example a client has been a classic 95 office job for the last three years and may turn up to you the first time I've ever been In the gym, the specific adaptation to an imposed demand has been in activity triple flexed low heart rates all day low BMR or lower BMR, maybe poor quality sleep those have been the demands on the body for three years. And that's why they turn up to you with a fact that they present over status of their body that day. So I want to kind of add my two pence in there and if we talk about said being about Progression inside planning actually said is happening all the time. I'm sitting down right now recording this. Yep in October 2009 teen and the demand on my body is very low and that's having an impact on my heart circulatory system respiratory system circulatory system joint system nervous system muscular system Energy System. Yeah, and and that if I continue that yeah, that's what I'm going to be. Become amazing. Okay, so I need to understand. This is why it's important. I need to understand where I've come from to save right? My status is here right now. Where am I moving too? And now I can plan appropriately inside my percentage of maximum heart rates or rpe scale on cardiovascular percentages of resistance within say endurance hypertrophy strength and power. Yeah. I can look at my core programming. I can look at my stretching programming and If I Implement these into a weak plan, what am I going to specifically adapt? What is the focus? What is the focus what is wrong thing to adapt? How do I want this thing to adapt? So if my client has a weight loss goal, what cardiovascular intensities and resistance intensities. Do I need to get to right now in the next three to four weeks based on where they start in order to see? See and adaptation now, here's a final point before we jump into revision Power Hour is not jumping into specific adaptation too heavy or too fast and what I mean by that is so many clients star in January and by the 1st of February then nowhere to be seen in the gym. Yeah their adherence or more. So I believe their enjoyment to exercise just isn't there. Yeah, totally because they've pushed beyond that of what their He is capable of too early and if we enjoy it, we're more likely to do it. And the more we are do it and be a deer to it. For more adaptation takes place. I'm going to add to that that frequency and adherence is like 90% of the work if they can keep that going over a long period of time and have a much greater effect. Even if they only do a small amount every time for a long period of time it's much better accumulative effect than if they do one really massive workout. And never go back completely. I think we could keep talking for hours and hours and hours on this and this is what all of the net that the next revision episodes all about. So every Thursday we drop one, but with that said if you do have questions drop them Below on whatever Channel you're watching this on the exam or app and reach out to us, you can get us on info at parallel - coaching dot code at UK go over to parallel coaching dot code at UK and there's so many blogs. Like 500 revision or training blogs where now our YouTube channels got three hundred-plus videos on for helped thousands of people all over the world. The key point is reach out. We're here to help. It doesn't matter whether you're with another training provider or with us. We really qualify for already qualified. I think that's a wicked point. We want you to reach your full potential and I genuinely believe if we understand anatomy and physiology a slightly deeper level. We're not talking about becoming doctors here. No, okay, then then you will be able to pass that on to your client and see outstanding results. So with no further Ado, let's go over to the revision power our here we go. Here we go. So how do you learn qualify and Kickstart as a big bro? This is the pit processions podcast with parallel coaching. So let's start with your plan set a timer on your phone for free minutes and we're going to answer four key questions question. Number one what specific topic will Revised in the next 20 minutes, for example, if you're on your level 3 and that's mean physiology. You might choose module one for heart and circulatory system next question 2. What are the three to five buzzing questions you have about this topic grab a notepad and pen and write down your three to five questions now moving on to question 3. What mode of learning will you use? Is this going to be your manual? Are you going to use YouTube or a revision Mastery boot camp, you're going to jump inside of a cheat sheets or are you going to go back to previous notes question for how will you test yourself in 20 minutes time to ensure you've learned what you set out to is this going to be a series of mock questions. Are you going to write down three to five key points? Just know that it's key to test your knowledge on a regular basis. Next you're going to set a timer for doing the revision for 20 minutes. So set a timer on your phone for 20 minutes and set towards answering the four questions from your planning. Once your 20 minutes is up. You've now got seven minutes to review and have a break and we're going to answer three questions here. Number one is a write down three to five key notes that you've learned try not to overthink this literally right down in short bullet Note Form to avoid pages and pages. Notes, what are the three to five key notes that you've learned from your for questions. You set out to next you're going to test your knowledge in two minutes and check your understanding. This could be one or two more questions. It could literally be a review of your notes and pick out key points to test whether or not you've learnt it yes or no again. Try not to overthink this finally you're going to set a timer on your phone for 5 minutes. Now, you can head over grab a cup of tea cup of coffee a bite to eat. We use for bathroom or head over to Facebook and veg out for a few minutes. Whatever you want to do to relax your brain before you return back and complete another 30 minutes for today's power our hi I'm Neil Bergman and I'm Haley Bergman over the last 10 years. We've helped thousands of Fitness professionals to get qualified learn with Simplicity and Coach clients with confidence with the first to say that learning and being a bit broke doesn't have to be hard work and that with the right structure support and resources. 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FitPro Sessions Podcast Episode 005 Revision – Why anatomy and physiology is important Here’s what we talked about on today’s FitPro Sessions Podcast Today’s podcast episode is our FIRST revision session where Neale and I explore why Anatomy and Physiology is important for all fitness professionals. We unpick why anatomy is important for planning and coaching clients, way beyond just the level 3 anatomy and physiology exam Grab the FitPro Sessions Podcast show notes: Timestamps: 01:00 Introduction to today’s FitPro Session 02:00 Is anatomy knowledge only needed for the exams? 04:00 “We didnt think becoming a Fit Pro would include Anatomy and Physiology” 05:00 Intro to the Power Hour at the end of the episode 06:10 What is Anatomy? What is Physiology? 09:30 Why anatomy and physiology is important? 09:45 “If you knew your car mechanic had no understanding of the parts or the workings of the car – would you let them work on your car?” 11:00 “Knowing Anatomy and Physiology is like having a Hanes Ownership Manual for your own body” 13:30 The importance of knowing how the body moves 15:40 Diagnosing the problems just like a car mechanic 18:40 “Anatomy and Physiology is the pre-cursor before ANY planning can happen” 20:00 Specific Adaptation to an Imposed Demand – changing the state of your client 22:50 SAID principle for regression and progression 25:00 “Frequency and Adherence is 90% of the work” 25:30 Get in touch and learn more with us 26:40 The start of the Revision Power Hour Learn more from Parallel Coaching : Join the Parallel Coaching Inner Circle HERE Access all of the other FitPro Sessions Podcast Episodes HERE Get help with your revision with our revision mastery bootcamps: https://revision.parallelcoaching.co.uk/fitness-exam-revision-courses Download Free Mock questions here: https://revision.parallelcoaching.co.uk/fitness-exam-mock-questions Check out what learners are saying: HERE Like us on Facebook: HERE Follow us on Instagram: HERE Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: HERE  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fitpro-sessions/message 