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March Midweek entry, Colourun

Emotions: Happy, satisfied, little anxious

Studio
This week so far at the studio has been good, running some good sessions with clients including Jaz and Chris, Meghan's clients. Finding I have some good relationships with some of the bigger personalities in the studio, like Mel and Marnie, come about from running good group classes, with a little drama (music not working) but finding alternate solutions and having a laugh out of it (Adele broke it!) This is a great step towards building a good reputation as a trainer, and being a good role model for my clients, with great rapport.
Thought about aiming for a target client base of 20 hours (more realistic) in next 6 months, to give more time in evenings for social life.

Aside from the positive, the colour run is looming and with a rego fee of $70 I'm not so sure about it and having second thoughts, with some of the other trainers bailing. Frustrating the company can't cover our costs, a bit nervous about telling Dean I cant afford it. End of the day I come first, have to look after my own finance, and be smart about it.

Ultimate
Sunday and Monday training were mint. Put on a throwing clinic on Monday night, felt good beating the A team. Feeling a little more backlash about not going to nationals, with news of Aussie teams and showcase game set to be an epic one. Especially as color run looks to be a flop -_- Either way, just the Sunday of nationals would not be worthwhile, although fun playing with Rocket.

Mixtape AU
Good first meeting last night, good turnout. Was a little nervous going in, especially late (be earlier next time) but felt good after, need social events at night to keep me busy, so look forward to the first semester with the club. With Mixtape commitments and AUUC, should be kept pretty busy though Autumn and into winter, plenty of fun times guaranteed, exited for what lies ahead.

Goals for Thursday:
  1. Nutrition Session 1. Imperative I pass this first time. Yeah!
  2. Finish reps registration, mail in bank and degree details
  3. Colour run. Explain to Dean I am running low on money (car trouble), and will need the missing week of retainer otherwise wont be able to afford color run. 
  4. Design group class at the studio, 
  5. Training, Final before nats
Weekly Anatomy research
1. Read, take in information. 2. Comprehend, explain so it makes sense. 3. Create own analogy
  • The midsection is divided into subcutaneous muscle (rectus femoris, internal/external oblique abdominus, transversus abdominus, erector spinae, quadratus lumborum) which controls weight transfer between thoracic cage (ribs) and pelvic region. Global group, increase intra-abdominal pressure
  • Transversus, reduces compressive load on lumbar spine, by increasing intra-abdominal pressure
  • Deep core: local group which control intersegmental motion between adjacent vertebrae. multifidus, rotatores, interspinal, intertransverse)
  • Analogy: Ship mast/guywire adding stability to free standing pole. Tension controlled by neural subsystem. Feedback from golgi tendon organs
  • Tension increase between muscles (deep) compression between lumbar vertebrae, increasing stability (lock it up like glue).
  • Training core stability, targeting the transversus in a nonfunctional position does not translate well to sport specific, or free-weight exercises, as a combination of different core muscles (local and global) work together to achieve spinal stability. Relative contrabutions of each muscle change constantly throughout a task. 
  • Feed-forward mechanism with transversus? Feedback from previous movement patterns (functional to task) to coordinate/preactivate muscle for weight loading or sporting tasks. 
  • Back pain, has been shown to be linked to delayed activation of transversus with subjects suffering from back pain. 

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