Training programs are often focused on burning more calories, moving faster, and "blasting" your fat. This approach could land you in a load of trouble.

Transcript:
Hey, everybody! It's Matt Hsu from Upright Health and welcome to the Episode 17 of the Upright Health Podcast. Today, we're going to be talking about the priorities and the goals of a personal trainer. What should those priorities and those goals be?
So before I get to that, I do want to mention that I've been super, super, super, super, super busy and that's why the podcast episodes have been a little spotty and not on a regular basis. The reason I have been super busy is because we are entering the home stretch for the release of The FAI Fix -- which you can see previews of at TheFAIFix.com. And you can sign up there. Enter in your name and email address and you will be put on the notification list, so you will find out when The FAI Fix is available for you to purchase and download and use to troubleshoot your hip problems -- whether you've been given the diagnosis of FAI or you feel like you just have a bunch of hip problems.
We have created this eBook and video package, so that you can go step by step to try out the most common things that are going to help, based on the client's that we've seen and our own personal issues. And go step by step and just work through until you figure out what's bugging your hips. So this is a package that my friend, Shane, in San Diego and I have been working on for the last four to six months, that's been kicking around in my head for about a year. And basically, we've thought through the most common hopeful stretches, tissue work, re-activation exercises that we use and put them all into this eBook. And then we shot a whole bunch of pictures and a video and linked everything together so that you can just go through this eBook. Keep track your progress with the handy TSR tracker, which helps you basically keep track of your troubleshooting and helps you narrow in on what you need to be doing on a daily basis. So go to TheFAIFix.com, check that out, sign up and stay tuned.
Now, as for the other reason I've been super, super busy, I've also been doing some mentoring sessions with some other trainers here in the Bay Area. Started doing them a little bit more regularly and we’re trying to get those scheduled to be more regular. But it's keeping me busy and it's also been making me think about what the goals and the normal, the more common goals that trainers have and how that does or doesn't align with the needs of many, many, many clients.
A lot of times, I hear that people get hurt. I've had people come to see me and say, “I went to this other trainer and I got hurt in the first session; my back went out and it's taken me six weeks to get better.” Or the one story that actually I heard and that mind fledgling trainers also heard last week was, “I went to a group exercise class. We were doing squats for like four or five minutes and I was fine during the class but the next day, it was just terrible and I haven't been able to walk properly for three weeks because my back, my hip hurt so much and it just feels terrible now.”
So those were really common stories and it's gotten me thinking, “Well, why does that happen? What is it about the training paradigm, the perspective that trainers usually have? What is it that makes them so common?” And what I think was going on was a lot of the trainers think their job is to just help you move a lot. So, most trainers, the scope of practice seems to be your job is to help somebody lose weight, burn calories, provide a good example so that people burn more calories than they consume and help them work up a sweat. Make them do multi-joint exercises; make them feel like they are just really just having to kill, right? They are just having to kill it in the gym.