The Benefits of a Trial Period

We get many questions here at IFAST about why we offer such a lengthy trial.

The bottom line is this: how do you, the consumer, know what a good trainer looks or feels like?

Many of our clients here at IFAST have worked with personal trainers before. In all honesty, many had no intentions of ever working with another train again. Whether it was due to high prices, poor training, or a flat-out lack of knowledge, many had no clue what good training really was.

At IFAST, the goal of our trial is to give you a real-world understanding of how we operate at our gym. Over the course of two or four weeks, you’ll not only get a full screen assessment, but anywhere from 6 to 12 training sessions as well.

At the end of six or 12 sessions, you will have a clear understanding of what it feels like to be coached by a true professional. We will work to improve your alignment, ensure proper technical execution of your exercises, and to make sure that everything feels good. After all, just because you’re working out, doesn’t mean you should be in pain!

After this 2 to 4 week trial period, if we haven’t convinced you that we’re the best trainers in the Indianapolis area, we don’t deserve your business.

Remember, the trial is absolutely risk-free, and there’s no obligation on your part whatsoever.

So what are you waiting for?   If you’re serious about taking your life, your physique, and your confidence to the next level, give us a call or e-mail us today. You won’t regret the decision!

317.578.0998

Indyfast@gmail.Com

All the best

Mike

The Value of an Assessment

Here at IFAST, one of the questions we get quite frequently is why we perform an initial assessment on our clients.

As the saying goes, “if you’re not assessing, you’re guessing.”

Each and every client that we work with his unique. They have unique backgrounds, unique bodies, and unique goals. Without taking the time to really assess their body, it’s impossible to write an effective training program for them.

Going through the assessment process allows us to determine what is moving correctly, what is in’t moving correctly, and (most importantly) how to address your movement limitations while still addressing your end goals.

If we can not only help you get stronger, lose body weight or body fat, or possibly add muscle mass, all while improving how your body feels, we have done our job.

Unfortunately, what you see with many clients and athletes that work with personal trainers is they get going for 4 to 6 weeks, only to get injured along the way.

Instead, our goal is to get your body aligned first and foremost. If we can do that, the likelihood of you getting injured decreases dramatically.  Think of getting your car aligned and tuned up prior to a big road trip; this is essentially what we’re doing to your body!

Whether your goal is to build muscle, lose fat, or gain strength, an initial assessment gives us the tools necessary to develop the best possible training program for You. Give us a call today at 317.578.0998 or e-mail us at indyfast@gmail.com to find out what IFAST can do for you.

All the best

Mike

Write It Down!

It’s that time of year again.

You know, the time when everyone gets serious about losing weight or body fat.

One of the biggest issues, however, is that people fail to recognize how important diet really is.

If you go into any gym across America, you’ll see tons of people working out for the first time in many, many months. What many fail to recognize, however, is that their weight or fat loss efforts are lost in vain because they fail to recognize the importance of diet.

Here’s a very simple tip I’d like to use today:

Write down every single food that you eat. Write down how much you ate, when you ate it, and if possible, try and estimate the calorie count.

Where a lot of people miss the mark is failing to recognize how many calories they take in on any given day.

For instance, you can’t forget to count condiments, beverages, and even little foods that you might snack on throughout the day.

For many, this is an eye-opening experience.

If you’re interested in finding out what IFAST can do for you, please give us a call at 317. 578. 0998.

This could be the best year of your life, so don’t delay!

All the best

Mike

500 pound deadlift at 165

IFAST mascot Kyle Penfound pulls a monster deadlift 2 weeks out from the USAPL Monsters of the Midwest Powerlifting meet.

IFAST Corrective Exercise

I thought you might like to see some true results of our corrective programming at IFAST.  I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, so I apologize for the delay.

This is Rich.  Rich was training for the Indianapolis Mini-Marathon that we have each year in May as part of the activities associated with the Indy 500.

Rich came to us in February and had been running since Christmas.  He’d recently recovered from his second knee surgery (one on each knee) and was having a lot of morning stiffness and some chronic calf tightness on the right.

Rich’s assessment showed some rather significant deficits in hip rotation and especially hip extension on the left as you can see.  He was literally stuck in hip flexion which resulted in some pretty poor glute function.

His malalignment was so significant that you can see the pronounced cervical extension that he was totally unaware of.

Basically, here’s what we did to produce the current correction:

Identified activities that negatively influence Rich’s alignment

Rich must drive a lot for his job and he tends to sit in a crooked alignment in the car.  We had him jam a pillow between the console and his hips to improve his alignment while sitting.  He also made an effort to stop and get out of the car more frequently.  Had Rich not been compliant with this part of the program, I’m certain that we wouldn’t have seen such a powerful change.

Identified range of motion limitations and the source such as short or stiff musculature or weakened musculature

For shortened tissues we utilized eccentric quasi-isometrics and appropriate exercises that emphasized a range of motion to that would promote restoring muscle length.  Stiffened muscles received more standard stretching protocols and mobility exercises followed by strengthening the antagonist to improve balance of stiffness around the affected joints.  You can learn more about this type of programming HERE.

In regards to his strength training, not only did it reinforce his mobility, but it also emphasized regaining stability, first proximally and then peripherally.

All of Rich’s gym time was done under supervision of one of our coaches to assure proper technique was emphasized at all times.

As you can see in the comparison, Rich made some outstanding progress in his realignment.  We’re currently working on a physical challenge for his upcoming 50th birthday and continuing with his corrective programming.