Philosophy:
Comprehensive Fitness Assessment
A comprehensive fitness assessment by an experienced CORE Fitness Performance Specialist is the first step in planning your individualized CORE Fitness training program. After you discuss your past medical history and your personal goals, you will undergo body composition testing, including weight, height, measurements, and body fat percentage assessment. Then, you will have your posture analyzed to determine your existing imbalances and to assist you with finding your “neutral” spine or “perfect posture.” You will perform a Functional Movement Screen, which tests functional mobility, stability, and flexibility, and a Y-Balance Test The objective is to identify asymmetries, imbalances, mobility/stability problems, and faulty movement patterns. Additional flexibility and balance tests will yield information to reinforce what we may have observed in your other tests.
If you experience any pain during the assessment, you must be referred to Kim Dare, PT, at Physical Therapy Connection, for a complimentary evaluation. In an effort to provide you with the most effective and safest program, we have to know if an underlying injury exists. After your assessment, we may recommend a specific shoe to suit your gait, mechanics, posture, and current activities. If we find it necessary, you will be encouraged to go to Women’s Sports Specialty or Delaware Running Company for a specialized approach to getting the proper footwear.
Lastly, CORE Fitness will educate you about CORE Fitness’s training principles of functional training and how to efficiently integrate them into your training and daily activities. The fitness assessment is also an opportunity to build rapport with your trainer and for you to actively engage in your training.
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Optimum Performance Training
We integrate all components of fitness that are necessary for your optimum performance. You will begin your workout with self- myofascial release in addition to an active and/or dynamic warm-up. Based on your Functional Movement Screen, you will perform corrective exercises to improve a specific movement pattern, and they will be constantly re-evaluated. After addressing mobility issues, core stabilization is the first and most important step of training. CORE Fitness initially builds the foundation for your success with corrective exercise, the essential first step of your training program. During this time, you and your trainer will work to correct any aches, pains, joint dysfunctions, muscular imbalances and postural-distortion patterns you may be experiencing, based on your initial comprehensive fitness assessment. By eliminating your weak points and strengthening your structural integrity, corrective exercise provides a strong foundation to enhance your performance and prevent injury.
Additionally, balance and stability have been proven to be very effective to train with efficiency. To function optimally and to effectively utilize strength, power, neuromuscular control, and muscular endurance, you must have adequate stabilization.
Our programs, which address movement efficiency, balance, flexibility, strength, coordination, speed, power, and endurance, reinforce strong motor programs and help eliminate dysfunction. In summary, core training:
•Combines multiple groups to form functional movement patterns.
•Creates a solid base of support.
•Integrates three planes of motion, preparing the individual for the true demands of any physical activity or sport.
•Improves balance and coordination which allows the body to move efficiently, with less effort
•Corrects postural imbalances that can lead to injuries.
•Develops functional fitness essential to daily living and improves sports performance.
Regeneration and Recovery
Regeneration and recovery are critical to your training program. Reduced flexibility can be an indicator of poor recovery from a previous workout or athletic event. Generalized stiffness and muscle fatigue can alter mobility and compromise movement patterns. Therefore, at CORE Fitness, we will help you develop a routine that addresses your specific flexibility issues.
Foam rolls are used for soft tissue work to release adhesions and improve oxygenation and blood flow to the muscle. They can also help monitor limitations and track progress. The “stick,” another self- roller massager, helps to relax and increase flexibility by increasing blood flow, oxygen, and nutrition to the massaged area. Foam rolling and stick can be helpful when trigger points are a problem and are also beneficial when muscles have not fully recovered. This is critical to improving movement patterns and reducing the risk of injury. Static, active, and dynamic stretching are critical.
Lastly, a movement prep routine should be developed in an effort to increase the body’s awareness and control of its own center of mass while also improving vital postural strength by challenging the stability around the joints both statically and dynamically.
Enhance Your Life
CORE Fitness can help you transform your body as you improve your everyday life. Ourintense focus on the muscles of your core (your pillar of strength) helps youimprove your posture, eliminate aches and pains, sleep better, and approach everything you do with renewed confidence.With CORE Fitness’sprogram, you will decrease your body fat, improve your strength, endurance, balance,flexibility, and movement efficiency. The most significant gain of all will be the ability to take charge of your life. CORE Fitness wants you to be excited about reaching your greatest potential. Along with fitness, CORE emphasizes proper nutrition in order to feed your muscles, lose fat, and feel energetic in your daily activities. Nutrition combined with the right exercise prescription packs power and vitality into your body so you can overcome all challenges.
