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What is a Resistance Training Specialist (RTS)?

For Integra, The Resistance Training Specialist program is the missing link to the majority of exercise and personal training qualifications in the UK and the US.

If we are truly going to offer ‘Personal Training’ we need to know more than the latest trends and do more than impose our own individual bias about exercise. We want to be precise in our application of our knowledge, to get great results for each of our clients.

From Pilates, to strength training, to yoga, to stretching, to ‘cardio’, every small section of fitness has its’ own ‘Rules’ of exercises. Each type of exercise has a specific paradigm that excludes everything that is not part of that system.

“Don’t let your knees go past your toes in a squat”…”Pilates will give you long and lean muscles”…”Running burns the most fat”…”The CORE is the most important part of your body”

But how about designing exercises to fit the rules of the body? Each client is not the same and as such, we should not expect people to follow generic exercise rules.

The Resistance Training Specialist program is an education process specialising in the study and application of Exercise Mechanics. The goal being to truly understand your client’s body and the skill in manipulating all of the variables that comprise exercise accordingly.

The goal of the RTS program is objective decision making in the implementation of exercise through:

• Structural Anatomy - The “Inside View” of the body and exercise
• Exposing exercise myths and biases
• Mastering precision exercise
• Functional Continuum® strategies
• Exercise Mechanics
• Strategic Resistance™
• The continual assessment of our client’s needs, goals and expectations.
• The rate and form of exercise progression, and
• The risks and benefit of each movement.

Ultimately we look beyond method names and marketing to the objective factors, but does this mean that we throw away all of our education and experience?

No, it means we can be accurate and precise rather than following what is fashionable, traditional or the hot topic in the fitness magazines.

This means the RTS Exercise Professional knows more exercise variables, can offer more strategies and has more tools in their boxes to get clients results.

Each member of the Integra team has been trained via the RTS program. Rather than just acquiring more knowledge, we aim to continue to refine, explore and challenge for a deeper understanding.

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More about RTS: RTS, LLC work with fitness, performance, and rehab facilities of all sizes to help personal trainers, fitness professionals, health professionals and anyone who employs exercise as a modality to provide a unique and invaluable level of service to their members, clients, and/or patients.

They offer educational courses and programs nationally and internationally which allow them to further their mission of changing the perception of what exercise is and can be by bringing substance and objectivity to how we study, teach, and apply exercise.

For more information on the RTS123 program in the UK, or the RTS Mastery program that is offered in Oklahoma City, US - go here: www.rts123.com