It’s been a little since I have published a visitors to this site and I thought it was late.
Today’s post comes with the courtesy of Austin, the TX -based trainer and gymnast owner Nathan Stowe. Nathan is a long-lived friend and colleague who belongs and exploited his own jam- HERE – For several years. He has worked mainly with “older” populations for most of his career and knows one thing or two about how to train and write programs for them without treating them as if they were breaking their hip by simply looking at a bar.
Age is not nuthin but a number
I have worked with people over 50 to increase their longevity for over 16 years-way Before it was cool. Indeed, Homeland He just told me that I could have the strongest solo training business in the country for this demographic…
And when I think about how it all started, it makes me laugh.
I was only a month in my first personal training, killing it on the sales floor thanks to my history – then broke my ACL playing a game “21” with a friend. I walked home to it. My friend, always useful, said, “Well … maybe I should go to get the car.”
Silver lining? The injury gave me time to get the specialist for the NASM exercise. I thought I would combine education with experience and become the go-to for customers.
In addition, the gym paid more per session if you had more win-win certifications.
When I came back, I was the “knee type”.
And in a city-barrier cursor like Austin, it meant that I got a lot of repetitions with real customers. I quickly discovered what was working in the real world … and what was only the theory of books.
One day, my manager asked if I would work with a customer who had a topic back. I said, “Matt, I hurt my knee. I don’t know anything about the back. ”
He said, “I know, but I trust you more to understand.”
This line changed my career.
I found an online man named Eric Cressey– Maybe you have heard of him?
Note by TG: I never heard the man … 🙃
We paid all that he put out and got great results with this customer. So Matt gave me a shoulder customer then. I said to him, “Now This is Even further than the knees. ”
Same answer: “I trust you more to understand.”
So I did it.
Eric led me to Tony (oh, hi!), Dean Somerset; Mike Robertson; Mike Rerentol; Bret ContreraS … The term Rushmore of training based on evidence for adults who do not want to live in the PT clinic.
The deeper I rotate it, the more I realized that it was the. I didn’t want to be the type of coach from 5am. – 10 pm every day. I wanted to be the specialist “jacked-up but didn’t give up” coach. It turns out, it meant that we work with many adults who were free on Tuesday at 10am and had real things to work around injuries, surgery, chronic pain or fear of all of the above.
And when you work with several people like this, you start observing patterns …
Here are five timeless training techniques that I use with every customer over 50 to make progress without Distribution – if they want to overcome their body weight in the 1970s or continue to jump in the 1970s with Parkinson (true story).
1. Use volume instead of intensity as overload
You would be shocked how many people would stop (or injured) by jumping from a 15 lb dumbbell in a 20 lb. But someone can go from 1 set to 2 to 3.
Or from 8 repetitions to 10.
We construct power by layering the volume – quiet and safely.
2. Use of motion range to overload
Most people in the 1960s are tighter than a drum.
Instead of chasing perfect form from the gate, I left the rom is the evolution.
Start the RDLS in the middle of the thigh → then on the knee → then below the knee → and then finally on the floor. The same thing with step-ups or separated 2 inches of the series per month, and in one year they move like 20 years younger.
3. Use the rate to overload
Do you notice the subject here?
More time under intensity = more adjustment without lifting the weight. We will add larger pauses. Slower cam. Controlled transitions.
It builds control, durability and trust – especially in people who feel fragile.
4. Glutes and ABS first. Anything else later
We go all-in to buttocks and core for six months.
Why?
Because most of my clients come with knees that feel like cement and buttocks who have forgotten how to shrink around 2007 at some point.
My progress:
Barbell Glute Bridge → Pullthrough cable → RDL → pull rack → pull the trap rod → pull floor → then squats.
All the time? We combine every movement with AB isometric work to control this pelvis and make true trunk control.
5. Press with the body, not against
Pushups. Spatials. Zones.
Anything that leaves the shoulder blades move And the body finds its own rhythm.
Once they can make a perfect picture? Then We’re talking about dumbbells and bavaries. I used to have a shoulder flame with my half clients until week 12.
Now;
I can’t remember the last time it happened.
These are just five of the tools I use daily. There are at least twelve more that I could record – and if you are curious, I’m talking about all this on my blog in Stowetraining.com.
About the writer
My name is Nathan “Nate” stowe, and when I’m not Ella’s dad or her husband Laura, I immerse personal training – who develop people in Austin, Texas live longer and become stronger. I write everyday, so if you liked this, you can find more Stowetraining.com.
