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Fitness ‘motivator’ rants against ‘repulsive, disgusting
fat people’
A self-proclaimed ‘fitness motivator’ made headlines when his
video rant against obese people raised hackles. “Since when
did it become beautiful for someone to be obese? It’s not. It’s
unhealthy. People automatically assume that’s fat shaming.”
Tony: ‘Repulsive’, ‘disgusting’ and ‘fat’ are not motivational
terms. This guy is a muppet!
Kay: It’s exceptionally polarising,
simplistic and to be honest,
reiterates the very reason why
having a scope of practice is
important.
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Network displays its support for marriage equality in
Australia
The team at Australian Fitness Network formally put its support
behind equal rights by signing the call for Australian Marriage
Equality. “We support the right for all our employees to have equal
opportunities in life and we therefore support marriage equality.”
Michael: You guys ROCK! Awesome
Catherine: Good on you Network!
Marg: Beautiful....like a rainbow J
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THE NEXT PROGRESSION
IN TRX TRAINING
Always keen to experience new training
programs, Paul Bulatao, National VET
Manager for fitnessU, recently attended the
latest TRX program – Functional Training
Course (FTC) – delivered by Personal
Training Academy.
“As a fan of TRX bodyweight training I
was keen to attend this 1-day workshop
to learn how to leverage TRX’s movementbased approach to training on the TRX
Suspension Trainer and Rip Trainer to teach
foundational movements and progressions.
With the TRX Suspension Trainer
being featured heavily in the course, my
fellow participants and I were required
to have some previous experience with
TRX Suspension Training. This enabled
us to build on the baseline standards and
apply the seven foundational movement-
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based training techniques to modalities
such as Rip Training, kettlebells, medicine
balls, sandbags, battling ropes, bands and
bodyweight.
A notable feature of the course was its
focus on effective cueing, which TRX calls
‘swing thoughts’. We were encouraged to
find effective, simple and creative ways
of communicating exercise instructions
(swing thoughts) so that clients could easily
understand and relate to the cues. With
trends moving away from 1-on-1 personal
training to small group training it was great
to see TRX embracing this trend and taking
on board teaching the art of cueing to
personal trainers.
An interactive workshop, with a great mix
of theory, discussions and practical skills,
I walked away feeling like I’d experienced,
instructed, corrected and practiced the
seven foundational movements. I also
walked away with a pretty nifty workbook
detailing over 30 exercises with photos and a
bank of collaborative swing thoughts to use:
I will never look at ‘apples’ and ‘apple sauce’
the same way again...”
For details on the course: ptacademy.
edu.au/continuing-education/trx-training