So my meticulously planned schedule managed to get messed up which is why this is a day late and you’ll have to wait for my next video until next week. So it goes. In any case, today I’m going to finish up the republication of this series (with a couple of added sections). And this piece if very long for which I apologize, when I originally wrote this I was forced into 6 parts for some reason.
In Training the Obese Beginner: Part 5, I made a case for the inclusion of both weight training and cardiovascular training for the obese beginner, despite having listed some initial limitations to both in earlier parts of the series. I also gave a general overview of what I did in the first session with those clients.
Today I want to look specifically at how I approached that first day/weeks of training (again noting that there are obviously more ways to approach the situation than just this one). … Keep Reading