Hi there my name is Chris and I am a personal trainer/exercise scientist from Australia, I am 24 years old and have studied health, fitness and human movement. I also take a holistic approach to some of my training coming from a traditional martial arts background. I have developed a duplicable fitness training system that can build maximum strength, flexibility, endurance all with absolutely no equipment and modelled from alot of research. I am looking for some trainers to use this new system in their training approach both for personal training and also in a class format (similar to the format of a pilates class). The exercise used is a development from various types of fitness training and martial arts. Below is a bit of an outline to the training side of things. If you are interested in trying out this proven method of training, contact me (I'm not selling something by the way, this is totally free).

The systems I have created use no equipment in the resistance training and I limit workouts to less than 30 minutes because I believe the weight training that a lot of inexperienced people do is too high in volume and too low in intensity. I also believe in functional strength, meaning that isolation exercises may be good for building muscle definition and hypertrophy but they do little for the overall functional capacity for the body. In every day life and in sports for that matter, muscles function in groups not in isolation which is where my system for strength training comes in.

I like to focus on an overall balance in muscle development and train those muscles in combination with each other and I feel that bodyweight exercises can adequately do that. Some people say "oh but you can't possibly challenge a well developed, super strong athlete to keep improving because your body weight is relatively constant". This is why I have discovered a way that anyone can progressively overload at any level by changing the exercise to a more advanced, mechanically disadvantaged position similar to the way a gymnast develops huge amounts of strength over time.

I incorporate this style of exercise into the weight loss programmes also because it has been well proven that increases in size and strength of muscles will increase the basal metabolic rate, even if the increase in muscle mass is only small. This is accompanied by core strength exercises and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation as well as some aerobic exercises during recovery periods to keep the heart rate at an optimal level. I have found this method of training to be quite effective in myself and in a number of other subjects that have been trying out the programme. Of course it is not for everyone, such as certain athletes but it does however contain some useful points for them to use in conjunction with their regular programmes. This system is known as Palmarium.