Our FullFitness® program provides you access to high-quality training usually reserved for professional athletes. Whether your goal is to increase athletic ability or improve daily function, our program creates a safe, effective and extremely personalized path toward individual health and fitness.
Defining Fitness
Fitness is defined by more than muscular strength or cardiovascular endurance; it is defined by all of the following components:
Muscular Strength
Muscular strength is comprised of a number of factors that can be easily overlooked or poorly understood. A solid strengthening program must address all of these factors.
For a strengthening program to be effective and safe, the strengthening must be performed in good form– eliminating and correcting faulty movement patterns. For example, to strengthen the biceps, the shoulders must not be shrugged as the biceps are curled. Doing so encourages substitutions, creates functional imbalances, and leaves you vulnerable to injury.
A quality strengthening program must include specific concentric and eccentric movement based on solid biomechanics. In other words, it is equally important to use good form to pick up a weight (concentric) as it is to lower a weight (eccentric).
Muscular strength also includes muscular endurance. Therefore, one needs the ability to repeat a large number of the same movement(s) —without loss of form—in order to increase muscular endurance.
Finally, increasing strength also includes increasing speed, both concentrically and eccentrically.
Flexibility
For flexibility to be effective and carry over into functional movements, several details must be addressed. To effectively uncover underlying length imbalances and potential substitutions, the muscle or muscle group to be stretched should be addressed by placing the limb in neutral joint alignment with the stretch tension following parallel to the alignment of the muscle fibers. Once the tissue is lengthened in neutral joint alignment, the stretching should progress into more complex, three-dimensional challenges of all muscles in the limb.
Increasing flexibility in the torso begins with straight plane challenges, progressing into three-dimensional stretches, and eventually incorporating the limbs.
Cardiovascular Health
Good cardiovascular training involves the whole body in a controlled, repetitive activity for a measurable period of time, while increasing the heart rate in a very specific manner. The type of cardiovascular training undertaken must take into account existing biomechanical imbalances in order to prevent the cardiovascular training from causing injuries to the musculoskeletal system.
Skill
Required skills are as varied as any activity. Skill can be illustrated by the length of stride on ice skates or picking up a 34lb grandchild. No matter the activity, skill is necessary to create effective and safe movement.
Regardless of the functional activity desired, five factors must be addressed:
- ·Coordination
- ·Agility
- ·Balance
- ·Timing
- ·Speed
If any one of these factors is lacking, any activity becomes less than effective and less than safe.
FullFitness® Staff
Serene Rene’ Calkins, P.T.
Physical Therapist, Owner
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Torrance Lee
Full Fitness Instructor
Massage Therapist
Defining FullFitness® Training
1. Setting Goals
The client sets a specific path to fitness by defining specific functional goals. Some examples include: climbing a 14-er, starting a walking program, ageing well, or improving scoring during pick-up basketball games. Goals can be as personalized as regaining the ability to get up from and down to the floor, or preparing for a bike ride across the United States.
2. Evaluating
The client begins the program with a complete musculoskeletal evaluation of each of the fitness components listed above. The evaluation takes 90 minutes and is done by the Physical Therapist and the Personal Trainer.
Each evaluation is specifically designed to test the components of fitness that each client should possess in order to meet his or her specific goals. Therefore, no evaluation is exactly like another.
3. Designing the Fitness Plan
Based upon the evaluation, we will identify which deficits need to be addressed in order to reach the goal(s) set by the client. We will create a specific Fitness Plan, which will be carried out and recorded by the Personal Trainer. Depending on the client’s goals and the client’s starting point, the Fitness Plan may be an initial 6-week series of 12 sessions. If the goal(s) are larger, our team will outline the appropriate short-term goals necessary to allow the client to reach the long-term goal(s).
4. Carrying out the FullFitness® Training
Each client plans the training schedule with our Personal Trainer at Art and Science. The 50-minute sessions are one-on-one with the Personal Trainer, twice a week for six weeks, ending with a re-evaluation.
5. Re-evaluate and update the Fitness Plan
At the end of the 6-week series of 12 sessions, we perform a re-evaluation. We measure the progress made in the area(s) of weakness which were discovered during the initial evaluation focused on during the FullFitness® training series.
If the client has met the goals, the FullFitness® training is complete. If the client has not yet met the chosen goal(s), they have the option to progress the Fitness Plan for another 12 sessions (twice a week for 6 weeks) followed by another re-evaluation.
Our team will map short-term goals and re-design the Fitness Plan as progress is made toward the long-term goals.
FullFitness® Pricing
| Initial Evaluation | 12 – 50 Minute Fullfitness Sessions | Re-Evaluation | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Clients | $150.00 | $60.00 Per Session | $150.00 | $1020.00 Two Payments of $510.00 |
| Returning Clients | N.A | $60.00 Per Session | $150.00 | $870.00 Two Payments of $435.00 |
Advanced FullFitness® Coordination
Coordinating with other professionals, coaches, trainers, etc.
If the client is training in sport or activity outside of Art and Science (e.g. horse training for dressage, league tennis, golf), additional information and coordination can be obtained through our Advanced FullFitness® program that can be coordinated with other professionals such as a coach or trainer.
Our staff will go to the training site (stable, court, golf course, etc.) where the client will be videotaped performing the goal activity. If requested, we will meet with a coach or trainer to clarify what skill(s) need improvement. We will use this information to more specifically design and clarify the Fitness Plan for the client and coach.
This advanced coordination will be repeated at the re-evaluation as needed.
Please call Art and Science for more information or to schedule an evaluation.
