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Speaker 1: Are you being as careful as you can when you're

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Speaker 1: at the gym and you're doing you're doing your workout.

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Speaker 1: Acc data is showing that shoulder and lower back injuries

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Speaker 1: in the gym have increased thirty five percent in the

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Speaker 1: last decade now. Industry experts have put this down to

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Speaker 1: an increase in strength training as the new exercise craze.

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Speaker 1: Alex Flint is the founder of Body Talk Personal Training

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Speaker 1: and the official trainer for TV three's Match Fit is

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Speaker 1: with Us.

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Speaker 2: Now, Hey, Alex, Hi, Heather, how are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you. Are you seeing more injuries

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Speaker 1: at the.

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Speaker 2: Gym, particularly in my gym, I'm proud to say not

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Speaker 2: so many, But across the industry, I think there is definitely,

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Speaker 2: unfortunately a bit of a rise, and it is matching

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Speaker 2: with the fact that there is more people participating in

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Speaker 2: strength training, which is actually a fantastic thing. We've just

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Speaker 2: got to look at how we're going about that strength training.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and now, what's up with this craze, the strength

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Speaker 1: training craze.

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Speaker 2: Well, one of the biggest rises that we've seen is

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Speaker 2: actually there's an increase, particularly in the participation levels of

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Speaker 2: women in strength training, which is fantastic because especially through

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Speaker 2: the likes of times in our periods in our life

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Speaker 2: like menopause where we suffer from bone density issues, lack

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Speaker 2: of muscle mass. Strength training is something which is now

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Speaker 2: becoming very popularized with women and that that is a

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Speaker 2: great thring thing. However, what we have to watch, of course,

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Speaker 2: is sometimes with that increase in an uptake in a

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Speaker 2: new type of exercise comes probably over enthusiasm and that

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Speaker 2: can sometimes spill over into a little bit too much

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Speaker 2: too soon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're getting in there, you're doing you're clean and pressing,

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Speaker 1: you've no idea what you're doing right, and so you

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Speaker 1: hurt yourself because your form is off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And it's one of those you know, we

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Speaker 2: just have to remember that its strength training isn't something

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Speaker 2: that can be rushed, So we have to take our

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Speaker 2: time and let our bodies accommodate. And sometimes, you know,

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Speaker 2: we see what's on YouTube or we see the latest

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Speaker 2: TikTok and you know, the bright shiny lights of the

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Speaker 2: fun stuff, and that's what we want to get into.

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Speaker 2: But we've just got to take our time to get

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Speaker 2: there to stuff.

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Speaker 1: Do you think part of the problem is that you

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Speaker 1: have some gyms off of classes where you could pack

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Speaker 1: and goodness, you can get a whole bunch of people

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Speaker 1: like you can get a hundred peop plus into one

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Speaker 1: of these classes doing clean and presses and the instructor

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Speaker 1: at the front has no idea whether all mate in

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Speaker 1: the left hand corner actually knows what they're doing. And

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Speaker 1: that is that is a that seems to me to

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Speaker 1: be a recipe for hurting yourself, Whereas if you're one

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Speaker 1: on one with a trainer, at least they can say

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Speaker 1: you need to poke your butt out more or tighten

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Speaker 1: up here or whatever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's that's definitely a potential harm and something

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Speaker 2: which you know the risk is probably is heightened. I

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Speaker 2: would say that, you know, overall, the exercise, the standard

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Speaker 2: of exercising musing on the industry is getting better, training

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Speaker 2: and so forth is getting better. But it's definitely the

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Speaker 2: case of if you're a beginner, or you know, you're

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Speaker 2: not so sure about your technique or where you're at,

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Speaker 2: you're better off in a smaller class, or even better

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Speaker 2: still with a with a one on one train to

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Speaker 2: get your feet to find your feet first.

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Speaker 1: Has this replaced cardio?

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Speaker 2: I don't think we could say that it's replaced cardio.

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Speaker 2: Like Actually, interestingly, at the moment, there's there's a big

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Speaker 2: rise in running again, which you know, the last time

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Speaker 2: that happened was in the nineteen seventies, but so cardio

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Speaker 2: is still definitely up there. I think what has happened

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Speaker 2: is actually, through a number of influencers, the sort of

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Speaker 2: the purpose and the reasons why we want a strength

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Speaker 2: trainer becoming far more evident. And when we look at

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Speaker 2: stats on link longevity, diseasection, disease protection, even things like dementia,

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Speaker 2: we know that strength training really stands in our corner

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Speaker 2: to help us get through those types of things. So

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Speaker 2: there's been a rise in i think, in understanding of

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Speaker 2: why we should be doing it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Alex, I really appreciate it. It's good to

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Speaker 1: talk to you. Alex Flint, who's the founder of body

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Speaker 1: Talk personal training and official trainer for match Fit on

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