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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nOur clients come to us with the desire to move better, feel better and get back to living life, even surpassing<\/em> it, despite their issues.\u00a0Their current health does NOT define them, nor does their age.\u00a0It\u2019s our responsibility to meet them where they\u2019re at, know where they have been<\/em> [for decades], and get them where they want to go<\/em>.\u00a0Keeping their hopes and dreams alive is paramount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Hippocrates<\/em> so eloquently stated, \u201cKnow the person who has the disease, not just the disease that has the person.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, when we hear \u2018cardiac or cardiovascular\u2019, think beyond the heart and vasculature for transport and waste removal. Think integration with the lymph and respiratory systems, and their role in running a well-oiled machine, one where the other six systems [gut microbiome, immune\/inflammatory, energy production (mitochondria), waste disposal \u2013 detoxification, communication (neurotransmitters, hormones), structural (cells, tissues, organs) synergistically thrive. This is a Functional Medicine model. Check it out.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clinical psychologists, physical therapists or medical doctors, we are not.\u00a0But, we impact lives in a multitude of ways, some measured by hard data, and others, by those intangibles like confidence and joy. Yes, we work within the physical realm, but when we take the integrated pillar approach to coaching Hardiness, we sync and link the pillars, buttressing them to exponentially resist and adapt better to the stresses and strains of life.\u00a0Buttresses, NOT band-aids!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coaching MUST transfer to performing and feeling better<\/em>, at home, in labor, care-giving, recreation and even competition. For example, with regards to the movement pillar, there are three realms:\u00a0 1) physical activity, as in walking, stairs, labor and chores, 2) recreation, as in sport, dance, all-seasons GO on snow, ice, sand or water, and 3) TRAINING, exercising with purpose. ALL contribute to the robustness of our movement pillar.\u00a0Training is only one piece of the movement pie, so yes to targeted training, AND to more movement in labor, hobbies and play.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n When training any adult, there are 7S<\/strong> Buckets that may need to be restored and refilled.\u00a0The 7th Bucket is Specificity <\/em><\/strong>and Specifics<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0Specificity refers to \u201cwe get what we train for;\u00a0we keep what we do!\u201d\u00a0Specifics<\/em><\/strong> are those things unique to our client; in this case, those CV conditions that propelled the client in our direction in the first place. It may have been a primary care Doc, a referral from cardiac rehab or simply the client\u2019s grit to BE better.\u00a0Whatever, we are here to fortify all their pillars of hardiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t get me wrong.\u00a0We must know CVD pathologies, physiology, metrics and measurement, and network with relevant healthcare professionals.\u00a0But more importantly, we must customize and personalize coaching to provide the springboard for Charlie to thrive, as a husband, father, business owner and outdoorsman, to optimize his health-span, and his zest for living life to his fullest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, from pacemakers, stents, meds and more, to risk factors, co-morbidities, MSK challenges and all else in store, we practitioners are here to reboot, rebuild, coach, train and restore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Join Pat VanGalen in the online course, Cardiac REHAB Fitness Specialist<\/a>. Learn the nuts and bolts of coaching hardiness within the cardiovascular system. Evidence-based facts, figures, updates AND case studies will tweak your coaching.\u00a0 Integrate, don\u2019t isolate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Patricia \u2018Pat\u2019 VanGalen, M.S. brings a unique blend of education, practical experience, common sense application, science and research to her lecturing, teaching, training and coaching. She launched her professional career 40+ years ago in physical education and coaching, then spent the next 10 years in corporate-industrial fitness, health promotion, cardiac rehab and injury risk reduction programming design, implementation and management. Visit her website,\u00a0activeandagile.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like a leaky roof, do we just patch the hole, and hope for the best? Or do we replace and restore it, and do the maintenance to optimize it, despite extreme weather conditions? In ski-speak, we joke about variable conditions, never predictable. In life, it\u2019s the same thing. Are we prepped and ready for the curveballs and Murphy-strikes that WILL come our way? Do we have an ample buffer, a reserve capacity to pull from? Can we bounce back, repeatedly, take hits and remain solid? Hardy folks can and do! Think of a hardy person you know. What keeps them surviving, and thriving? Today, it is well-accepted that cardiovascular disease (CVD), the leading cause of death in the U.S., is rooted in inflammation, insulin-resistance, oxidative stress (rusting), hormonal imbalances and exposure to toxins.\u00a0 We also know that a lousy diet, long-term micro-nutrient deficiencies, physical INactivity, chronic DIStress, and various toxins, raise cholesterol and blood pressure exacerbating an inflammatory response in our arterial endothelium. Remember that half of the people who experience heart attacks do NOT suffer from hypercholesterolemia. To quote Mark Hyman, M.D., Founder, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, \u201cCVD is not about cholesterol;\u00a0it is about inflammation in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":29426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,54,198],"class_list":["post-33643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-exercise","tag-fitness-professionals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33645,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33643\/revisions\/33645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Specialization for Fit Pros<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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