Rowdell will carry this section. He is a multi-talented fellow with a long backround of working in the operating room as an anesthesia technologist. He has won many awards for body building and is a proponent of healthy and drug free athletics.

Rowdell trains both competing body builders and the rest of us who come in barely able to tie our laces without huffing and puffing.

Why a personal trainer ? We know things you just wouldn't know and help you do things you just didn't think you could do.

Training isn't just doing, it is setting out to do and executing in a way that minimizes ill effects. The goal is health.

For some, bulk is wanted. For most, better strength without bulk is sought. For others body sculpting and slimming is desired.

Certain exercises are what we call "cardio", which in terms of what you feel means they make you winded. They use fuel (burn many calories). You burn calories using oxygen generating CO₂ that has to be vented. Heart rate and breathing go up. The heart rate reflects two things the need for more blood by way of more pumps, and it also reflects the amount of blood pumped on each beat. A well trained athlete pumps more blood on a single beat. Therefore the rate will be lower at any given level of exercise in a trained athlete.

Other exercises do little for calorie consumption but much to make ligaments and muscle units more supple before subjecting them to strong activity. More springy or resilient tissues are less likely to get damaged or to hurt. Stretching exercise is not a substitute for cardio and cardio is not a substitute for stretching.

Sudden change is the one thing the body rebels at. Warm up is a vague term that simply means starting slow so that mechanisms get up and running and surfaces get lubricated and hurty spots that need not be worked get detected before really getting into the hard stuff.

One of the most important traits of a trainer, is
motivational skill.

And although the really hard work is your job, it helps to have an inspirational nudge.

And so...