Personal Training at Ropemakers
Let’s get active, and stay active starting 11:00 am this Saturday
Keeping active has never been more important and for many is increasingly hard. In partnership with Katie Dunford, one of our newest residents at Ropemakers we can now offer weekly online fitness classes. They are for a range of abilities and will certainly get you working. During lockdown they will be free to join and hosted by Katie, on her new Youtube channel every Saturday at 11:00 am.
What to expect from your first class, from Katie:
“The first class I’ll will be bringing to Ropemaker’s Residents is called Elevate. Elevate is an aerobic endurance class meaning we will be working in our 60-80% Max HR Zone. It’s a zero equipment, medium impact class using sports inspired movements! We use different directions and movements planes to challenge your body on every level.
You are welcome to take this class as to the level that suits you, but it will challenge everyone. The aim is to keep moving: this allows us to build our aerobic base. Aerobic training causes changes to the mitochondria in your cells (the energy cells) so we become better at producing energy, it also helps our body to build more blood vessels which supplies our muscle better meaning we are more powerful and recover better. You’ll burn a lot of calories in this class but it tends to cause less stress on the body than HIIT.
Most people would benefit more by limiting intense HIIT to 1 x per week and focusing more on Aerobic training.”
See the last Elevate class from Saturday 21st November
It’s not just about ‘fitness’ mobility matters too.
With more and more of us working from home, and even less mobile, it is even more important we develop a full range of healthy mobility. Katie will be posting regular videos on this as well as helping you build it into your general fitness regime.
Katie’s response to why mobility matters:
“ Our joint mobility is a measure of our fitness in its own right (as well as aerobic fitness, speed, agility and flexibility). Strength training targets our muscles and mobility targets our joint capsules and connective tissue. Our muscle have a better blood supply than our joints and therefore they recover quicker, movement is the best way to help our joints to recover and maintain our current levels of mobility. Using Functional Range techniques we can also develop our active control over our joints which contributes to all physical activities. Many people confuse flexibility and mobility, think of flexibility and muscle focused and mobility and joint focused. We need both but we also need to be strong in both, often flexibility training forces our bodies in to positions using objects and gravity but in FRC we ask: can you control your body in to the same position. "
More about Katie
“I’m Katie, originally from Yorkshire! I’ve been working in fitness 10 years as a group-ex instructor and a 1-1 S&C (strength and conditioning) coach. My background was in dance before realising that I like moving heavy things! I’ve won podium positions in international physique competitions but after experiencing a few functional issues myself I decided it wasn’t healthy to train to such an extreme without understanding what was happening to my body on a deeper level. I’ve always enjoyed a functional purpose to training, but it’s a term that is massively misused by the industry and I’m keen to educate people on how to get good results and treat their body well. I’m now a registered Functional Range Conditioning Practitioner (mobility specialist).”