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The one person who I consider high-risk is a client with Parkinson's disease.
Our fitness journey goes years back before he was even diagnosed with that disease, and all I had to contend with then was deconditioning and an arthritic condition.
The changes and adaptations in exercise programming were gradual. Once Parkinson's was diagnosed and started to show noticeable effects, the programming began to shift towards maintaining as much strength and balance as possible. Cardiovascular exercise eventually was out of the question. The overriding principle was always to prevent falling; first, of course, during exercise, but also outside the studio when he was at home.
Dealing with Parkinson's has been a very difficult situation for me, more on an emotional level than as a challenge in training. I now train my client at his home, and I insist to have another person attending because of increasing frailty. I often have to cut the 30 minute session short because he sometimes is quickly tired, particularly if there had been another item on his daily agenda. We just always 'play it by ear'.
His physicians are aware that he is working out with me. I cut back on exercises as safety requires but I promised him that I would not terminate the training on my end. I know that that would signal to him that I have given up on him.
I am not sure whether you can even call this an exercise programming solution because the training now has at least as many psychological as physical aspects.
Our fitness journey goes years back before he was even diagnosed with that disease, and all I had to contend with then was deconditioning and an arthritic condition.
The changes and adaptations in exercise programming were gradual. Once Parkinson's was diagnosed and started to show noticeable effects, the programming began to shift towards maintaining as much strength and balance as possible. Cardiovascular exercise eventually was out of the question. The overriding principle was always to prevent falling; first, of course, during exercise, but also outside the studio when he was at home.
Dealing with Parkinson's has been a very difficult situation for me, more on an emotional level than as a challenge in training. I now train my client at his home, and I insist to have another person attending because of increasing frailty. I often have to cut the 30 minute session short because he sometimes is quickly tired, particularly if there had been another item on his daily agenda. We just always 'play it by ear'.
His physicians are aware that he is working out with me. I cut back on exercises as safety requires but I promised him that I would not terminate the training on my end. I know that that would signal to him that I have given up on him.
I am not sure whether you can even call this an exercise programming solution because the training now has at least as many psychological as physical aspects.
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I only have one client I would consider high risk. Heart attack patient and I work close with their doctor to approve and contribute to program design.
