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by JGzz » Wed, 24 Mar 2010 2:21 pm
At its Parkway gym, s personal trainer was performing a back press on a petite woman on the floor. He, near 200 pounds, pivoted his entire body weight on just his 2 knees. Guess which part of her body he pivoted his knees on? Top of the back thighs!!!
I could not believe my eyes on seeing what damage he could cause. That parts run the important sciatic nerve that descend from the buttock and into the thighs. The nerve branches supply nerve impulses to and from the muscles and skin in the hip joints and thighs, the lower legs, feet and most of the skin below the knee.
This Personal Trainer is at great risk of injuring her sciatic nerves, not to mention blocking the blood flow in the 2 arteries next to the sciatic nerves. The potential damage is unthinkable!!
As a reminder, last year another personal trainer also pivoted his entire weight thru his knees onto the back of someone's knees in performing a back press. Back of the knees are full of nerve branches and is a weak part.
My physiatherapist friend in TTS hospital was horrified when I told her.
What were the 'personal trainers' thinking? Did they know they could seriously injure people and affect their livelihood? Would they do the same to their own mum, brother, wife, husband?
Has True Fitness in-house training failed to train them edequately? Or was it a case of Personal Trainers applying their own misguided belief?
Why a trainer you trust engage in injury stunt on you?
Have you been told .. no pain no gain?
Why can't True Fitness personal trainer use only exercises based on sound exercise physiology?
Why do we believe them and let them do what they think, not knowing where their thinking come from?
Why pay to be injured?
I am worried what I may see everytime I do my workout.
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JGzz on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 5:44 am, edited 2 times in total.