This is a YouTube video titled "The Secret Difference Between Aesthetic Functional Fitness" containing a monologue by Beverley Simpson recorded on June 12, 2023. Beverley discusses the distinctions between training for aesthetic goals versus functional fitness and pain management, emphasizing client expectations and balancing health with appearance.
If you just want to come in and get huge and you don't really care about pain, if I get you out of pain and I haven't made any aesthetic progress, you're probably going to fire me as a trainer. So I think getting through to clients heads like, listen, if you want to look like this, here are the risk factors and everything that you're going to be giving up or compromising your health with, that sucks. But if you want to look like this, here's the things and the steps we have to take. If you're trying to get out of pain and just get to a functional standpoint to where you're pain free, that adaptation I'm looking for is a lot different than someone trying to put on muscle and yes, muscle density, it helps with osteoporosis and all these things. Yes, the studies are proven, but when a client comes in again, if you don't give them what they want, need, they're going to go somewhere else. So I try to get all of my clients to kind of understand the difference between their aesthetic goals and their functionality goals. And I try to meet them in the middle. If I can get them to buy into my program, they combine both and we're going to be on the same page. But if I have you throwing up at the end of a session.
