Welcome to your business! You and your partners have started a personal training business just outside of Hollywood, California. It is a superb location. Not only do you get the wealthy general public as customers to your health club, but you get actors, actresses and professional athletes as well. These are the people who can afford to pay your training rates of $50 per half hour. Money is nothing to them. Being in shape is! But they all do not want the same thing. Some want bigger muscles, others want smaller tummies. Some need to gain mass, while others want to increase their speed.
How will you do it? To pay your bills you need to keep these paying customers at your health club. You need to give them the advice they need to hear in order to get the results they want to see.
Starting the Business
Decide with your five business partners who is going to specialize in the different categories of training: aerobic, weight training, speed, flexibility, and nutrition.
Aerobics: What activities and for how long?
Weight Training: What exercises, how heavy (light, medium, heavy) and how many repetitions for each set of exercises.
Speed: What activities will improve their speed?
Flexibility: How much time should they spend stretching, if any.
Nutrition/Caloric intake: How many calories they are ingesting from the food they eat and the beverages they drink. Assume that they are consuming good calories (healthy foods), not bad calories (fast food, junk food).
Each specialist will then go to the related web sites and gather the necessary information to produce positive results for their clients. After gathering the information, go to the list of clients for the day, find out what their goals are, and then design their fitness programs. Lastly, answer the questions that your clients had for you at the bottom of their workout plans.
When putting together the individual's training plan, you will need to consult your partners who specialized in the appropriate field. You will turn in one plan per client.
Web sites
Category 1: Nutrition
Category 2: Flexibility
Category 3: Aerobics
Category 4: Weight Training
Category 5: Speed
Schedule for the day
Well your advertising company has done their work! You just opened your doors for business and there are already 5 appointments for initial consultations to set up programs.
1. Kobe Bryant
2. Vanna White
3. David Walker
4. Terrell Davis
5. Jewel
Their wants:
Kobe Bryant has just come off of a long NBA season with the Los Angeles Lakers. He is not used to playing so much strenuous basketball in one year. By the end of the season, he weighed 10 pounds less than when the season started. He wants to add 20 pounds of muscle before the start of training camp in 4 months. He can work out on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Kobe sees Terrell Davis and wonders why Terrell's plan has him eating so many calories. Give him his answer in writing in the comments section of his workout plan.
Vanna White is finding it harder and harder to turn those big letters every week night. She wants to strengthen her arms without getting huge biceps. She also wants to do some sort of aerobic workout. She can only workout on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Vanna wonders if she should lift heavy weights like Terrell Davis is going to do. She knows she is not going to be as strong as him but should she lift her maximum? Answer on her workout plan.
David Walker is a successful realtor who has found that a desk job does not keep the body in shape. He wants to lose 15 pounds and keep them off. He is willing to work out 5 days a week. David wonders if he should only do aerobics or weight training, but not both. What is your answer?
Terrell Davis has become bored with his success as a running back so he wants to try outside linebacker. He needs to put on about 30 pounds. He wants to get stronger legs so he can drive through the opponents he is tackling. He also wants to bulk up his shoulders and work on his speed since he is adding weight. He can work out any day of the week except Saturday and Sunday. Terrell sees Jewel stretching and wonders if he should be concerned with flexibility. Write to him why he should or should not be concerned with stretching.
Jewel wants to exercise because she feels out of shape from driving around the country on a tour bus. She can no longer do the splits (which was an integral part of her stage show) because of a pulled hamstring muscle. She also gets tired when running around on stage. She wants to know how to improve her stamina. She only has time to work out 3 days a week. Jewel says that she usually only consumes 1200 calories a day because she is so busy. Is that enough? Tell her how many she should be consuming on her workout plan.
Output
There are your clients for the day. Now fill out their workout plans and have them ready for their next visit tomorrow. Remember to answer their questions under the comment section on their workout plan!
Workout Plan Template
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Comments: (Answer the clients' questions here)
Created by Greg Merrill for EDTEC 596. Spring 1998.