Pillars of Health - Fitness diaries

Here's a story for you... I'm home alone at about 9:30pm working on one of my other blogsites http://www.pohfolk.tumblr.com/ when I hear a massive metallic .THUD . I jump up and look over my railing to see if something has fallen in my loft, realizing very quickly that this thud was not inside my apartment but just outside. About 6 feet away from my front window to be exact. I raced to the window to see a man in his 20's lying on my sidewalk bloodied and in obvious agony. I am a first responder for first aid, I have always upkept this as part of my personal training business, so I grabbed my medkit and raced outside. I arrived to find him lying on the ground in considerable pain, pallid and breathing short raspy breaths. He had fallen from a balcony 2 storeys up and landed on a metal telephone box. he was NOT in good shape. After stabilizing his head and explaining why I needed him to stop moving I realized that it sounded like he'd broken either ribs, his back, both...

When you go to the gym you are usually confronted with a couple of options: Do your own thing, take a classs or hire a Personal Trainer .... So what are the differences...? Doin your own fitness routine is a hit or miss project. Why? Well, the most important thing about working out is a) consistency and b) doing the things that will get you to your goals most effectively .  When you do things on your own you have to base your decisions on what you know about the body, fitness, body fat loss and the pieces of equipment put before you. The hardest part about that is that most people have never taken an anatomy lesson, don't know about the neural element of movement and have no idea if that movement is condusive to their goals. All in all my personal belief is that if you want to wire a home you talk to an electrician, if you want to put in a toilet you talk to a plumber.... OR you read a LOT of books on the subject. Most people don't do this with their health, they ...

WHAT IS PILLARS OF HEALTH? Pillars of Health is a 5 tiered health concept which initially developed into a business of the same name. Now it is known as PohFolk (or Pillars.of.Health Folk) These tiers (referred to as pillars) are the 5 things that every man, woman and child on this planet must do to survive. These five things are simply; Eat, Drink, Breathe, Sleep and Move. Einstein once said ‘Any theory that cannot be explained to a child is probably worthless’. This is our governing ideology. This program is designed to show the correlation between the Pillars and how that affects health. It then shows you how to change the aspects of lifestyle so that these Pillars work for the individual or group. Due to the simplicity of the program it can be tailored to ANY setting; be it corporate, clinical, educational, etc…. The other element of Pillars of Health is that it is based in (and as such, follows) ecology closely; this is an eco-friendly business that promotes and supports the envir...

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“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness [/disease].” ~Edward Stanley

During our training session JY told me about this amazing new device for hand strength. It is called the 'powerball'... Now this blogger does not endorse products , but I thought I would tell the trainers of the world about it because it was the first I had heard about it and sounded intriguing! This is something a trainer rarely does because we focus on the larger muscles, not realizing of course that is the weakest link in the chain that stops a client from acheiving more out of their workouts. We focus on abs (sorry to be politically corect... Core), the arms in men, the waist in women but we often forget about the little muscles. It is also important to note tha the hands contain very small muscles and we need to maintain not only strength but also dexterity. Please if you use something like this gyroscope do not forget to add some tactility skills for your client. PohFolk