Student Journey; The marriage of personal training with soft tissue therapy!

There is an incredibly strong affinity between personal training and sports massage or soft tissue therapy. With personal training enhancing fitness and mobility for clients and soft tissue work unlocking that extra level of performance and rehabilitation.

Soft tissue therapy and personal training dovetails beautifully together, not just from the results you can achieve with clients but also from a business perspective.

In the soft tissue work you will not only offer rehab and strengthening of muscles and enhance mobility of joints and improve performance, you will also identify weaknesses and tightness or shortness of muscles and soft tissue dysfunction or range of movement issues that you can then design programmes to target! This synergy and constant feedback loop is recognised by many personal trainers and sports therapists alike who then cross refer clients to each other but there is real growth in the market for offering both.

It has been great working with Neale, who recently joined us for our Level 4 Certificate in Sports Massage bringing his wealth of knowledge from a background in Personal training and shares his insights into the course for us...