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After revisiting the topic of the “3 phases of healing”, I couldn’t help but notice the parallels between the way our bodies and minds work. Take, for example, the word “trauma”. In our field, we generally associate this word with something physical, but in Psychology, it has an entirely different meaning; a meaning that pertains to the mind. Trauma is immediately preceded by what we know as the “Inflammatory Response”. I couldn’t help but liken this to dealing with mental trauma. A traumatic event takes place, and we react in an “inflammatory” manner. In both cases, there is a vascular reaction, which leads to an increase in blood flow, heart rate, blood pressure, and can lead to greater damage if not addressed in a timely matter. This will last anywhere from 0 to 6 days, and, if handled properly, will lead us into the next phase. The next phase is known as the “Fibroblastic Repair Phase”. This phase lasts anywhere from 2 days to 6 weeks and is the time in which our bodies attempt to

Before you judge the title, please hear me out.                 Over the past 10 years I have mentored, coached, taught, and trained a ton of personal trainers, strength coaches, and athletic trainers. When I first meet anyone who is interested in this field I always ask the same question,  “Why do you want to be a trainer?”. Most times the answer I get is, “I really like to workout and people in the gym always ask me for advice, so I thought it would be a good idea.”.  In all fairness this was the same reason I got into this industry, however I quickly learned that being a personal trainer has very little to do with working out.  Here are some reasons why: 1)       Do you actually want to help others? Personal training has nothing to do with YOUR love of fitness, it has to do with you getting someone else, who normally hates exercise, to enjoy it.  You have to be the type of person who likes pouring into other people. You also have to want to give of yourself and know tha

Hello All, It’s Johnny, Injury Prevention Coordinator at FLO Fitness and I’m very excited for our new Mental Training Program that we will be starting up in the fall with our athletes. As I write to you, Chris Flo is working on the last few details of our program. We hope to not only help our athletes reach their goals physically but also mentally. At FLO we strive to be the best we can be by obtaining as much information and education as we can in all different areas, whether it be in fitness, business, sport medicine, mental training, breathing and etc. In the last couple months the FLO family has concentrated a lot in mental training. In midst of our group conversations we all decided to try some of the techniques we read about with some of our athletes and the results we got were amazing. I had the pleasure of working with one our swimmers. He was preparing to compete in one of his main swimming competitions of the summer. I should add that this particular athlete is