"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore, is not an ACT, but rather a HABIT."
- Aristotle
Joe Stephens
Master personal trainer
Corrective exercise specialist
Sports massage therapist
Joe Stephens has been involved in health and fitness industry for over seven years as a personal trainer. Now a well established corrective exercise specialist he has a wealth of knowledge after being mentored by one of the best trainer in the U.K. (Jason Anderson, Product development manager for Premier Global International, Men’s Fitness writer/ exercise demonstrator and international lecturer and now the owner of Movement3). He has experience in working as a fitness instructor, personal trainer, massage therapist and gym manager in a number of commercial gym’s in the south-west. Through this time he has had experience of training international golfers, tennis player, Archers, decathletes, triathletes, professional footballers, racing drivers and also been apart of a small select group of professionals doing research and development of ankle injury procedures for the NHS.
Joe brings an enjoyable and professional quality to his training session with the knowledge to back it up. With a full assessment and a holistic approach to training, no aspect of your health and fitness will be missed or over looked.
What is a corrective exercise specialist?
The main focus as corrective exercise specialist is to improve the posture with exercise for both when standing still and enable them to maintain good alignment of the body and limbs when in motion.
Posture can be defined as the attitude or position of the body (Thomas, 1977) and according to Martin (2002) should fulfill three main functions:
· It must maintain the alignment of the body’s segment in any position.
· It must anticipate change to allow engagement in voluntary goal-directed movements such as reaching and stepping.
· It must react to unexpected disturbances in balance.
Qualifications:
- Emergency First Aid
- Swedish Body Massage
- Sport Massage Therapy and Injury Rehabilitaion
- Nutrition for Health and Fitness
- Circuit Training
- Fitness Trainer Award
- Diploma in Personal Trainer
- Personal Training Solutions Certificate in Resisted Movement Training
- Personal Training Solutions Certificate in Movement-Based Flexibility
- Advanced Personal Training
- Premier Masters in Personal Training
- Certificate in Exercise for the Management of low Back Pain
- Hip & Pelvis Movement Therapy, Movement3
