JohnJfitness’s BodyBlog

John J’s Concepts of Personal Training
My programming must be general enough to take advantage of the universality of the human body, yet specific enough to meet your specific needs and goals. I utilize periodization: a principle that provides a plan to manage our physical resources over a specific time period. The adaptive capabilities of the human body are fundamentally universal, thus every workout is tailored to elicit a certain response. With variables that are suited to meet the individuals needs I attempt to cover all the bases featuring complete and balanced workouts.
My training program is a systematic process in which clients not only loose weight, but also improve their level of fitness, cardiovascular limits, overall health and quality of life. This is a long-term process that progressively improves the clients’ level of fitness and conditioning. Training uses both general and event-specific exercises to develop an athlete for their sport or develop my client for the sport of life.
Training is a cyclical process: tear down, recovery, super-compensation and buildup (adaptation). When we train, we do specific damage to cells, and use up cellular resources (sugar, water, salts). When we finish a workout, you are weaker, not stronger. How much weaker depends on the amount and intensity of the exercise. After the training session, if the body is given proper rest and food, it will adjust to super-compensate and prepare for the next stressors.
The “Law of Overload” is perhaps the most fundamental principle of fitness. It is essentially an increase in demand to force bodily adaptation. A training load is the work or exercise that an athlete performs in a training session. When an athlete’s fitness level is challenged by a new training stimulus there is an immediate response from the body. This bodily response is called an adaptation. The initial response is fatigue. When the loading or workout stops there is a process of recovery. Recovery and adaptation take the athlete to a higher level of fitness from where he/she started.

The body’s ability to adapt is the backbone of how training works. If the training load is not great enough there is little or no increase in fitness level or athletic performance. A loading that is too great can result in injury or illness to the athlete. I wish to assist my client’s success in achieving their fitness goals as expeditiously yet, safely as possible. Once again, thanks you for choosing me as your trainer. Now lets get down to business.
I will now briefly explain what your training program entails.

John J’s Personal Training Program is a 3-Cycle System of non-linear periodization. Periodization is a specific method of manipulating training variables to provide greater changes in strength, body fat composition, and physical performance.

The programs structure is all about the cycles.
Microcycle - a 4-8 week block of exercise programming.
Mesocycle - a 12-16 week in length program a series of microcycles make a mesocycle
Macrocycle - an entire 52-week program including multiple mesocycles.

Cycle One is all about building a stable foundation upon which we can expound. You will achieve a basic level of fitness and master good form while exercising. Addressing imbalances and learning fundamental fitness techniques is the foundation that will allow you to progress to Cycle 2

Cycle Two is the bridge to cycle three. You will focus on improving your balance by challenging stability and improve coordination by utilizing more complex movements. Introduce more advanced types of strength and conditioning techniques and build a “bridge” to the increased specificity of Cycle 3

Cycle Three is about reaching your goal. It capitalizes on the results attained in Cycles 1 and 2 to achieve a specific goal in performance, fat metabolism and activities of daily living.

The key to my programming is thorough, meticulous planning, organization and superior client management. As a client your fitness level or measurements will be assessed and reassessed on a regular basis.  Since we’ll be working in the arena of quantifiable results I believe it is imperative to keep precise records of ones progress to understand the bodies response.

In closing, I always tell my clients, “You must believe in yourself. If you don’t believe you will never achieve.”  We will work hard, we will sweat a lot, we will push our bodies to its physical and mental limits, all in an effort to make us the person we want to be. I only train winners.  I am a “one hundred percenter”, everything I do, I do it to the best of my ability and believe the only way to succeed is to apply oneself 100%. My clients are often ultra successful business people that put 100% into everything they do, 100% in the office, 100% into personal relationships, 100% in the gym. You can’t put a marginal or 50% effort into training and expect a 100% return on your investment.  Apply yourself and I guarantee, that’s right guarantee, you will achieve your fitness goals.

John L. Jackson III
Trainer of Champions
AFAA Certified Personal Trainer
Kettle Bell Certified
CPR Certified

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