Phillips-Fit

• PERSONAL FITNESS TRAINING

• WEIGHT MANAGEMENT AND NUTRITIONAL ADVICE

• FITNESS BOOTCAMPS IN READING

• SPORTS INJURY REHABILITATION USING MAT®

• SPORTS MASSAGE THERAPY

• V.I.P INNER ZONE MEMBERSHIP

• SERVICES COVERING READING & BERKSHIRE more details...

Phillips-Fit was founded in 2004 to provide a premium Personal Training service to the people of Reading and Berkshire. With a dedicated team of experts covering every angle of health and fitness, we can provide you with the right service to meet your individual needs.  

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FREE consultation:

During your free consultation (lasting approx, 45 minutes), we will discuss your current physical activity level, health status, diet, activity preferences and find out exactly what you want to achieve during your programme and set some realistic short term and long term goals. From all this vital information I will then design a safe and effective training program tailored to meet your individual needs.

Contact Ryan to arrange a time that suits you.

Body Statistics and fitness assessment:

A 30 minute body stats assessment will be carried out at the start of your training programme to set the benchmark and each month thereafter to continually monitor your progress and ensure that you are on the right track to succeeding in your goals. This may include analysing your body composition (body fat %, Fat Mass, Fat Free Mass & hydration levels), body fat calipers, tape measurements i.e. waist to hip ratio, blood pressure, resting heart rate, lung power, fitness level, muscle strength, flexibility & balance. Depending on your goals we will only select relevant tests from this list.

A safe and effective training program:

After analysing all the information provided by you during your free consultation I will get to work on designing an exercise program specifically for you. This program will be designed in such a way as to allow modification as you progress. It will be periodized over a 4 week period and once completed, your second body statistics and fitness assessment will be carried out to record your improvements and analyze your progress. Periodizing your training program in this way ensures that during exercise you optimise the training effect whilst exercising at a safe level. There is a very fine line between optimum physiological adaptation (your optimum progress) and over-doing it; we aim to get that balance just right for you!

Nutritional Guidance:

Regular exercise and healthy eating go hand in hand to achieve a healthier lifestyle. You will struggle to reach your goal whether that be fat loss or lean mass weight gain without it. Every fitness exercise program should be accompanied by healthy and appropriate nutritional advice. I will provide you with nutritional guidelines that will not only allow you to achieve stunning results in the short term but will set you up with good habits for the long term to manage your weight without you feeling like you're on a diet!

Motivation and enthusiasm:

I will help to motivate you to train effectively to reach your goals. Training sessions will be delivered with enthusiasm, and adaptations of conventional exercises will ensure that exercise remains exiting and fun. I will closely and continuously monitor your progress to ensure that you develop at your maximum rate without injury or over-training. This will ensure that your long term goals are achievable in a realistic time scale through setting short term achievable goals.

Online V.I.P Inner Zone Membership:

For extra motivation, help and support from me and other likeminded people (my clients) who are going through a similar process as you i.e. losing weight, toning up, getting fitter, training for a race, building muscle, etc and to gain instant access to all my years of diet and exercise knowledge in the form of articles, discussions, videos and more, you have the option of joining my private and exclusive V.I.P Inner Zone and becoming a part of my online community right away.

There is a lot to learn when it comes down to changing your body composition and working towards optimal health and my V.I.P Inner Zone is the hub for all this information. During our Personal Training sessions I'll be drip feeding you with information on exercise and nutrition; everything you need to know to make your goals a success. Some people find all this information a bit overwhelming at first and find it useful to have it all written down and in one place where they can access it over and over again in their own time to digest it properly and refer back to it at a later date.

My V.I.P Inner Zone is also the place to share your progress with others, discuss your challenges, vent your spleen, help others in need of a kind, encouraging word and be a part of a small private community of successful, driven individuals all working hard towards achieving their ultimate health and fitness goals. The V.I.P Inner Zone site is accessible anytime, day or night, 24/7 and from anywhere in the world as you will have you own personal access code, you'll even have your own profile page which you can fully personalise with photos and different themes etc. There is also a live chat feature so you can engage in real time discussions with other members and myself who might be online the same time as you.

The content within the V.I.P Inner Zone site is continually growing and expanding, providing you with exponential levels of value month on month.  

Current topics of discussion:

• Fad Diets, ever tried one?
• Weight Training Myths

Current articles:

• Eggs: The myths are busted and the truths are revealed...
• Everything you need to know about Omega 3 fish oils
• Is your lack of drinking water making you fatter?
• How much water do I really need to drink?
• Why is breakfast so important?
• Checklist: 10 reasons why you might not be getting results...
• How eating whilst watching TV can make you fat!
• 3 popular exercises to avoid if your goals are to lose weight
• The Water Bottle Workout - Your simple solution to not blowing your results when on holiday

The list here is endless as I’m frequently updating the site with more cutting edge material over the months to come helping to make your journey of achieving your goals a smoother and easier ride.

Contact Ryan to get started

Sports Injury Rehab using MAT®:

MAT® stands for Muscle Activation Techniques which is a system designed to evaluate and treat muscular imbalances. MAT® looks at muscle tightness as a form of protection in the body. Weak or inhibited muscles can create the need for other muscles to tighten up in order to help stabilize the joints. MAT® gets to the root of pain or injury by addressing muscle weakness rather than muscle tightness. This helps to restore normal body alignment, thereby, decreasing pain, reducing muscle stiffness, reducing your risk of injury and improving your physical performance and fat burning potential.

Muscle activation refers to the process of ‘jumpstarting’ the muscle. The goal of Muscle Activation Techniques is to identify the position of weakness and the muscles that are inhibited, and then to activate these muscles – basically switch them back on.

For a more simplistic approach to understand muscle function, compare the body to a car. The initiation of a muscle contraction occurs similarly to the way a battery initiates the starting of a car. Both rely on connections that transfer electrical energy to produce a reaction. The nerves that run from the spinal cord to the muscle are just like the cables that run from the ignition to the battery. When the key is turned in the ignition, the impulses transfer through the cables to the battery allowing the car to start. Similarly, in the body, when a message is sent from the brain, the input is transferred through the nerves to the muscles creating muscle contraction. Each muscle is independently innervated; therefore it can be seen as having many batteries, each connected by its own independent cables. When the body is functioning properly, with all batteries connected, each muscle will contract on demand and the body will function very
efficiently.

Many times, due to factors such as stress, trauma or overuse, the neurological connections may become altered, creating a reaction in the body similar to that of loose battery cables in your car. When the brain sends a message for a muscle to contract, the muscle does not respond immediately, creating increased demand on other muscles to perform the desired movement. The result becomes what we know as compensation. Over time, these compensation patterns create altered alignment in the joint, leading to joint instability and abnormal wear on the joint surfaces. The end result becomes pain and eventually osteoarthritis. The progressive degeneration has been correlated with aging. If identified and properly addressed, it does not have to occur.

While most therapies focus on treating the muscles with tension and/or pain, MAT® gets to the root of pain or injury by addressing muscle weakness rather than muscle tightness. MAT® views muscle tightness as a form of protection in the body. Weak or inhibited muscles can create the need for other muscles to tighten up in order to help stabilize the joints. The goal of MAT® is to identify the inhibited or weak muscles that are creating a protective response and then ‘jumpstart’ these muscles in order to improve their contractile capability.

If the tight muscles are stretched or massaged— without addressing the root cause, the inhibited or weak muscle—then we may have violated the body’s protective mechanism. We must know that when we increase range of motion through modalities like stretching or massage, that there is also stability through that increased range. MAT® provides the checks and balances system to make sure that this happens. That is why MAT® is a great adjunct to all forms of exercise and therapy.

MAT® can slow down or even reverse the aging process. If it is recognized that muscles are designed to stabilize and support the joints naturally; it must be understood that arthritic conditions and joint instability can be helped or prevented when muscles are prepared to function properly. All that is needed is to create proper connections between the brain and the muscles. Muscle Activation Techniques does this. It provides the ability for the body to function the way that it was designed to function. Just like with a dead battery, the muscles must be jumpstarted and the cables must be tightened before the muscle will function properly. In simplistic terms, through MAT®, muscles that have improper neurological connections are identified, then jumpstarted; creating the ability for the muscles to stabilize the joints and reduce joint stresses that lead to arthritic conditions. That is when the body becomes efficient and the related aches and pains are deterred.

Another issue that results from when muscles are not contracting properly is that they don’t “burn” fuel optimally. Glucose uptake is solely dependent on muscle contraction; in other words, if your muscles are not contracting optimally then you’re not burning fuel properly and this will have a negative effect on your fat loss even if you’re training hard and eating a healthy diet.

I am one of only a handful of MAT® Certified Personal Trainers in the UK having the specialised knowledge, skills and tools to assess you from head to foot, checking almost every muscle and joint in your body to identify any areas of muscle weakness or inhibition you may have. Then by performing low level isometric contractions to those weak muscles I can “jumpstart” those muscles, switching them on again thus improving the range of motion of the joint instantly giving you pain free range of motion and at the same time releasing muscle tightness.

If you would like more information on MAT® or would like to book an assessment then please contact me now.

Sports Massage:

If you are training regularly and your muscles are starting to feel the strain, sometimes a Swedish massage just isn't enough! So why not treat your aching muscles to a 1st class sports massage with our fully qualified Sports Massage Therapists

Group Circuit Training sessions:

Group training sessions are a very cost effective way of getting in great shape and exercising with friends is fun too! For more details please contact Ryan now. 

Group Nutrition and Weight Management sessions:

For more details please contact Ryan now.

Additional benefits of training with Phillips-Fit:

• 25% discount on Sports Massage Therapy sessions *
• Discounts on Osteopathy treatments
• 10% discount at the Sweatshop in Reading **
• 10% discount on activewear and sportswear for women at Kiamba
• Exclusive access to the worlds No.1 brand in vitamins/minerals & dietary supplements

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