Exercise classifications

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I am trying to classify all exercise types into different classifications. These are what I have come up with:

Muscular Strength (heavy weights, low reps)
Muscular Endurance (bodyweight callisthenics)
Muscular Hypertrophy (8-12 reps to failure)
Muscular Power (plyometrics, fast reps with heavy weights)
Aerobic Endurance (running, dancing, swimming etc)
Speed and Agility (quick movements-either whole body or one limb)
Static Flexibility (active, passive and isometric)
Dynamic Flexibility (joint movements and moving stretches)

What would you add to this? Or take away?

What would you classify HIIT or running with dragging sandbags as?

Is there such a thing as aerobic power?
 
Oh there are so many you could do...

Isometric, Isotonic, Open Chained, Closed Chained, Russian Super Cycle, Concentric, Eccentric, Integrated Neuromuscular Stabilization Training (BALANCE), Reactive Neuromuscular Training (POWER), etc....

Even if you went the NASM route, there's more... Corrective Exercise Training (CET), Integrated Stabilization Training (IST), Muscular Development Training (MDT), Maximal Strength Training (MST), Elastic Equivalent Training (EET), Maximal Power Training (MPT)
 
The reason I ask is bcos I have accumulated hundreds of different drills and exercises but I want to put them into different files depending on their function.

Then when a client (I am gonna start as a PT next year) comes to me and says 'Durr, I wanna get fit' I can ask them do they want to get bigger, stronger, have more stamina, be better at tennis etc.

So say a client says they want to lose weight and improve their posture. I could use 'aerobic endurance' exercises to burn calories, 'muscular strength' exercises to prevent protein loss and to strengthen weak postural muscles and 'static flexibility' exercises to lengthen tight postural muscles.
 
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neat idea, but many exercises could be used for many different catagories.
Bench press, for example:
loading the bar with a heavy weight would be for strength, 70-85% of 1 RM for Hypertrophy, 50% of 1RM for muscular endurance

a push-up, for someone who is bad at push-ups will be for strength, but for many will be musc. end. Add a clapping push-up and it's plyometric, put your hands on a stability ball and it's rehabilitative.

As Dex pointed out, there really are so many ways to classify the exercises. HIIT is certainly a type of training, it's just a matter of what exercises you would put into that catagory. I use Metabloic Power as a training method, and cetainly do a lot of rehabilitative stuff.

Again, while it's a cool idea, you'll be doing a TON of work, as their are an infinite (really, think about it) number of exercises.

Give me an example of an exercise, and I'll break it down into 10 more exercises.

Hope this helps some!
Wes
 
and soon NASM has/will have that on their websites (of course you have to pay to have access to them)
 
Interesting idea. I am sure you could come up with hundreds of classifications depending on how you want to phrase it, or how techinical you want to be.

If this system helps you learn, then it's a great idea. However, once you gain some experience as a trainer, you will realize that every person requires something a little different within these classifications (principle of individuality) and your file would need to be a massive archive.

You should be taking most of your future clients through many of these "classifications" in thier macrocycle, unless they have special needs (disability, rehab, etc.). In time all this stuff is going to roll off the top of your head. I wouldn't waste too much time on it.

Best advice I can give you is to practice every type of training you can come up with. There is no substitue for experience. Very glad to see you are taking the time to become a quality trainer and not rushing into it.
 
I will give you a piece of advice for training athletes; video them in practicing their sport to get an idea of the exact movements that would have the most benefit. You can also assess weak areas that need bringing up, you'll also get an idea of which energy systems need to be addressed.

I mention this because you mentioned "being better at tennis" which I know was just an example. I've seen far to many times coaches or trainers who just prescribe an exercise like deadlifts because it'll just "have carry over" and this is not always true.

But then again, athletic training is a different animal than your man/woman that wants to get fit.
 
Yeh I definately think that any exercise you do should have a purpose. Having been training people casually for the last 6-9 months I can say that the primary things people want in the following order are:

Weight Loss
More energy/stamina
More definition+ tone
Bigger muscles
More strength

The people I have been training and would want to train are just regular 9-5 people- not athletes and certainly not bodybuilders. Most people I have come across dont really know what they want in terms of exercise type- they just want to look and feel better.
 
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