Andrew Chadwick

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

As a fitness professional, you’re expected to motivate others with your happiness, enthusiasm and passion for helping your clients achieve their goals. However, you’re neurochemically not designed to be “on” all the time, so sometimes life can hinder our ability to motivate others as much as we’d like. if you’ve been training people long enough, you will know that your external to work life can influence your ability to be upbeat and encouraging. You may have actually experienced a client asking you if “you’re ok!”. In this session, we will identify the causes of a drop in motivation and dive into a system of awareness that can help you mitigate the highs and lows of your own motivation on the job so you can help motivate others in their physical activity journey.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

When we are guiding someone on their physical activity journey, we need to understand that this person is choosing to change their behaviour. Changing behaviour is hard and our clients maybe resistant to change for many different reasons. In this session we will look at what happens inside our clients heads to learn why that change is so hard. By understanding that the brain and body are interconnected we can understand that when we train the body, we’re also training the brain. So while you may know that a certain tissue element provides the drive for that exercise skill, you also need to be aware of what is happening inside the operating system in control of the output of that skill performance.