Case Study

Austin has approached you in the gym. He wants to do strength training as he wants to increase his muscle mass by another 4% in 6 months’ time. He is 31 years old with a clear PAR-Q. He has done muscular endurance/hypertrophy training before where he has performed 12-20reps of an exercise but wants to focus more on strength training. The parts he wants to focus on is his chest and shoulders. Using this information:

1. How could you apply periodisation to his programmes?
2. How will principles of F.I.T.T relate?
3. What training methods and techniques would you do?
4. What should the rep range be for strength training?
5. What exercises would be in his programmes?
6. Should you solely look at chest and shoulders?
7. Give suitable progressions and regressions for each exercise
8. How can you keep him motivated throughout the 6 months?

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