5 Years of STRENFLEX - Strenflex Fitness Sport

C O M M E N T
cessfully (with a lot of fun and professional
all-round support) in our gyms
instead.
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NEW: Basic Fitness Test
The test for beginners
Based on experience gained over the
past months several interesting findings
have emerged:
✗ Athletic trainers and customers
often fail the cardio test: This is frequently
due to training which focuses
solely on strength with the stress and
relaxation capacity of the cardiovascular
system exhibiting clear deficits.
✗ If professional instructors and
course leaders fail in strength exercises
such as chin-up, dip or push-up
the reason for this is often too much
emphasis on gymnastically oriented
endurance training.
✗ If the problems become apparent
after the first three strength test exercises
and continue to manifest themselves
as co-ordination problems
when carrying out the step test then
it’s either due to the local muscles of
the athlete becoming fatigued or to a
general ‘centralised fatigue’.
✗ With the cardio test too, which
amazingly was the biggest obstacle
for a surprising number of test athletes,
deficits in the ability of the cardiovascular
system to relax are highlighted.
In all of these cases, causes and
meaningful training recommendations
can easily be established: Regular
comprehensive fitness training
focussing on any deficits established
will lead to significant improvements
within a few weeks and success at the
next test is almost always guaranteed.
Nevertheless we have found that
many customers and also potential
customers (at shows or town events)
rate the Strenflex test and its requirement
to fulfil the prescribed targets for
all six test exercises as non-achievable.
Many look at the exercise boards
then decline to take the test, often for
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EXERCICE
Push ups
Abdominal
crunches
Sit & reach
Flexibility is demonstrated
with this exercise. Here,
the fi ngertips must touch
the tiptoes
reasons of “saving face”, because no-one
wants to disgrace oneself publicly.
In order to make the initiative “Get your
fitness badge... in your gym” accessible
to a wider public we have devised a special
entry level test based on the Strenflex
fitness test with the aim of facilitating the
beginning of a successful fitness career
for (almost) anybody.
I wish you and your team a successful
year! Make the most of the strongly
BASIC FITNESS TEST
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improved outlook of our industry, retain
as many members as possible for another
year and try to persuade many new ones
to start their fitness training at your gym.
If we have succeeded in persuading you
of the benefits of the Strenflex concepts
then call me. We are here to help you.
Yours,
Dr. Rolf Krempel
General Secretary
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All exercices must be done without breaks in the movement flow
Strenflex Sports Organisation
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