Personal Trainer Christo Myburgh shares his health tips

Name: Christo Myburgh

Weight: 87

Years of training: 6

Favorite body parts to train in order: back, legs, shoulder, triceps ,chest,  the least favorite to train biceps

Contact number: O790991522 or bbm 22603B03  christo_myburgh@yahoo.com

Education\Certification:Nationalcertificate: fitness, indoor cycling academy and elementary paractical first aid certificate

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Why did u choose Personal Training as a career?

I love helping people and part of personal training is watching them reach their goals and changing their lifes (mentally & physically) this sport is not just about your appearance it is also a mental discipline.  it takes a lot of discipline which changes your thinking and how you see yourself. It is a combination of training and nutrition.

Do you have a trainer?

No, I train my self and get advice from friends which compete both locally and internationally.

I have  been training for several years and one never stops learning. Like any industry, the fitness one has seen many new and innovative methods of training. I will never say something does not work with out trying it out for myself, but I believe in good form as ones can hurt themselves if an excercise is not done correctly. sometimes cheat movement are allowed with in reason.

How many days do you train & for how long?

5 – 6  days a week,  roughly an hour per day depends on which muscle group I’m training.

Please provide us with the basic important steps to bodybuilding?

1. Your eating plan plays a major role in the transformation of your body ie: muscle growth or weight loss

2. Sufficient water intake at least 8 glasses of water, as every function in body requires water

3. Limit your alcohol in take

4. Rather cook than eating out, should you eat out choose the healthier options. I don’t believe in DIETS it’s a eating plan for the rest of ur life not just for sort space of time

5. Train regularly and have rest days as well listen to your body and also don’t train when you are sick

6 Change your training routine every now and again to keep ur body guessing and do crosstraining as well

7. To loss weight do not skip meals rather eat smaller more frequently so ur body does not go into survival mode.

8. Don’t over train a muscle

Please tell us more about yourself?

I was involved in a car accident on the 29/01/2000, which left me in a comma for 1 month, in this time I also had a stroke. I was still semi commotosed when my mother took me out of hospital to care for me at home. It was very challenging as I was in a wheel chair for approximately 3 months and my left arm was severely affected from the stroke and was fixed at a 45 degree angle. I had to have intense physio while undergoing speech therapy to learn how to speak again. I know what it is like overcoming a challenging obstacle, my goal was to walk and talk again and I reached my goal through prayer  and determination.  I love life and live it to the fullest now.  That is why I love this industry, it gives my great pleasure watching people who thought it was impossible reaching their goals.

What evaluations do you conduct on a new client who wants to begin a fitness regimen?

I first establish the individuals goals and then I look at the practicle aspects such as medical back ground, age, injurys, fittness, strength and flexibility.

How important is nutrition to you in creating clients regiments?

For clients to see results, it is important that they have 5-6 small meals a day. Remember good quality food is the fuel that your body requires to training and function at. Remember muscles are made of protein and therefore it is necessary to increase your protein intake. Good quality carbs will give your sufficient energy to get through the your work out and day.  It is also important to get enought fruit and vegatables as they contIan vitamins and fiber as body also requires these. As I mentioned previously,  water intake is very important.

If a client complains about a previous injury, how would you handle that when constructing a fitness regimen for them?

Depending on how severe and how long the client has had the injury, I would then put together a training routine that they feel comfortable doing.There are different forms of excercise and methods eg. Thro bands,TRX, machines or free weights also crosstraning. I would limit the use of free weights as you use your primary muscle and secondary muscles where as doing machines use primary muscle and don’t require your stabilizing  muscle as the machine guide and prevents you losing control  of the limb, thro bands can be used to  sort out  injury’s also training around a injury but rest is also needed for some injury depending on the severity of the injury to recover, a rotor cuff injury is one of the main injury’s in the gym which  is made up of four muscles (supraspinatus, infraspinatus, subscapularis and the teres minor) the, most  common muscle injured of the rotor cuff is Subscapularis which helps lift the arm, rotate and stabilizes the arm.

How do you simultaneously help clients at different levels of physical ability during a workout?

I would change a persons workout intensitet of their wourkout by either or decresing or  incresing weight or amount of weight or adding in thero bands or gym ball for more stabilizing work outs and even use the TRX

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