Let's work together!

Personal Training

Personal Training ensures you learn the right way to exercise to achieve your goals, and have the support and motivation to get there. Here at ProPhysiotherapy our personal trainer, Gemma Frankland, will work with you to achieve the goals and outcomes you want, but at ProPhysiotherapy we genuinely believe in teamwork – our expertise, your effort!

The Experts…

Gemma Frankland

Gemma Frankland qualified as an International Personal Trainer in 2003. Starting-off with a wide and varied client base, she gained an enormous breadth of experience in cardiovascular development, weight-management, and resistance training. Gemma then decided to focus on the specific areas of fitness about which she had become most passionate:

Weight-Loss and Body Toning, Ante-natal Exercise and Post-natal Exercise:

Weight-Loss and Body Toning

Gemma has helped many clients to lose weight and maintain the loss long term, including clients who have struggled for many years to do so without success. She firmly believes in identifying the behaviours responsible for the weight-problem and addressing them honestly and methodically.
For clients who do not need to lose weight, but want to improve the tone and strength of their body, Gemma offers resistance training using a wide variety of techniques and equipment including free-weights, resistance bands, kettle-bells and BOSU work.

Services Provided:

• Personal Training sessions
• Partner Training sessions (two people training together)
• Nutrition guidance starter package

Ante-natal Personal Training

Gemma has gained additional qualifications specifically in Ante-natal training. She worked with the government funded NHS Research team of Professors and Clinical staff to explore ways in which exercise could benefit pregnant women who smoked. She has also held educational sessions for NHS midwives. Her ‘hands-on’ Personal Training experience spans over 120 pregnancies, and includes working with women with complex conditions such as SPD, placenta previa, pre-ecampsia, obstetric cholestatis, IVF and multiple gestations.

Services Provided:

• A regular 2-hour Workshop – ‘Why, and how to exercise in Pregnancy’. Perfect if you are planning a pregnancy, or are already pregnant.
• Personal Training sessions to prepare for pregnancy, and during the pregnancy itself.

Post-natal Personal Training

Gemma has worked with hundreds of post-natal women both on a one-to-one basis, and in a class environment. This experience has given her an insight into the stresses put on a new mother – both physical and emotional. As such, her approach is to target physical problem areas – core muscles, back strength and weight management – in a way that helps to relieve stress, boost energy and help women to regain confidence in their bodies.

Services Provided:

• Personal Training sessions (one to one)
• Partner Training sessions (two people training together).
• Post-natal Exercise Classes – ‘bring your baby’. (See Post natal Exercise Class on website)

Relevant Qualifications:

• ACE (American) International Personal Trainer
• ACE Programming for Special Populations (including pregnancy)
• ACE (American) Pilates Mat Training
• ACE (American) Exercise & Pregnancy
• BCRPA (Canadian) Fitness Instructor
• BCRPA (Canadian) Personal Trainer
• RSA Aerobics and Group Exercise Teacher
• BAWLA (British) Free-Weights Instructor
• BAWLA (British) Gym Instructor
• Virgin Active – Core Class Certification

NUTRITION DIMENSIONS:

• Nutrition for Women – Sexual & Reproductive Health
• Nutrition for Women – Diet & Diseases of Lifestyle
• Advanced Functional Foods, Parts I and II
• The treatment of eating disorders

For further details about any of Gemma’s services, please contact her at gemma_frankland@hotmail.com or on 07939 276544.

Alternatively please call the Earlsfield practice on 02088791555 or email enquiries@prophysiotherapy.co.uk for further information