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For information, Please contact Parrillo Performance at (513) 874-3305 or e-mail to [email protected] John Parrillo's Performance Press The role of the personal trainer way: John Parrillo established a empowering Parrillo Certified Personal is to obtain tangible physical personal trainer certification process Trainers (PCPTs) with the depth and results for those that engage their that was all about providing trainers breadth of knowledge they need to services. The effective personal trainer with the training and nutritional make a living as personal trainer. He creates customized training and information needed to succeed. leads by example. Many of his own nutritional game plans, training and Since its inception in the 1990s, the personal training clients have been nutritional regimens that are workable Parrillo PT certification has evolved with him upwards of twenty years. within the context of the client’s with time and the accumulation of He has an incredible client retention life. The trainer “stairsteps” the new knowledge. Tracy Anderson has rate that is directly attributable to client’s progress upward, establishing been the lead instructor and, along the effectiveness of the methods he and then attaining small, weekly with John Parrillo, the philosophic uses, the same ones he professes and incremental goals. Successive weekly mentor for the Parrillo Personal shares with certification seekers. successes convert into greater levels Trainer Certification. “When I came and degrees of fitness, leanness, aboard in 1998, the processes and “The surest way to retain a client muscularity, functionality, and procedures were less evolved than is to obtain consistent, measurable strength. Each successive week the they are in the present 2020 form.” gains for them, both in performance personal trainer guides the trainee, Tracy’s mission was, and is, all about and physique. Our methods are reasons with the trainee, exhorts them. Sometimes the personal trainer Industry benchmark: the Parrillo Certified plays the Marine Drill Sargent while Personal Trainer other times being kindly and coaxing is appropriate; whatever the situation Getting dramatic results for regular people leading regular lives demands. The successful personal creates lifelong clients trainer obtains real results for regular people on a consistent and ongoing By Marty Gallagher basis. Success, physical results, for those that adhere to the PTs protocols creates long-term clients. Client retention correlates to client results: do those that follow your protocols and procedures build lean muscle mass, melt away body fat, become fitter, healthier, more energetic, and vibrant? In the end this is a yes or no question. No matter how nice or personable a personal trainer you are, no matter how knowledgeable, good- looking, well-groomed, well-spoken or funny you are – if you can’t get results for the paying client, at some point they quit. Back in the 1990s, when personal trainers and PT certifications began proliferating, John Parrillo noted the inadequacies of the “result producing” methods being taught to personal trainers. As a longtime bodybuilding preparation expert, John understood that the weak and ineffectual methods being taught were setting young entry-level personal trainers up for failure. The Parrillo Personal Trainer certification was born out of the need for a better 4 DECEMBER 2020 1-800-344-3404 www.parrilloperformance.com DECEMBER 2020 5 Industry Benchmark: The Parrillo Certified Personal Trainer John Parrillo's Performance Press multidimensional in that we blend and evolving the Parrillo Certified over fundamental concepts.” On When it comes to empowering new personal trainers resistance training, cardiovascular Personal Trainer course for decades; Day 1, in the morning session, Tracy with the knowledge, skills, tools, and the strategies training, fascial stretching, nutrition, they continually update to reflect and explains what is expected. “I greet they need to succeed, the Parrillo personal trainer supplementation, programing, all incorporate new ideas and strategies. them and make sure they understand certification remains the industry benchmark. these elements are combined and “John and I revised the manuals in this is an entry level certification. I balanced.” Tracy and John redesigned the early 2000s to include movement commence with a 30 to 45-minute the certification process so it would science and the application of introductory overview. I explain that have two levels: the basic certification anatomy as it applies to exercise. John the overarching goal is to create and a Master certification. The entry- and I rewrote and updated the PCPT professional trainers equipped to level certification was designed to Manual again in 2014.” make a fulltime living helping clients empower personal trainers with all attain their physical goals. I ask if the fundamental knowledge needed When it comes to empowering new there are any questions on book 1 to obtain outstanding results for personal trainers with the knowledge, and answer those before commencing regular people working regular skills, tools, and the strategies they a lecture on muscle-fiber types. We jobs and having family and job need to succeed, the Parrillo personal talk about how differing rep ranges responsibilities. Tracy explained, “The trainer certification remains the attack muscle fibers differently. I certification process is not about industry benchmark. The current 2020 allow the questions to fashion the preparing bodybuilders for shows – version of the certification process discussion. I morph into differing this is about training trainers to help is a two-day affair. Certification exercise types, isotonic, isokinetic, regular people improve their health attendees are expected to study isometric, etc.” Quite a bit of time is and physique. A transformed client the basic information contained in spent on anatomy and anatomical becomes a walking talking billboard book 1 before the certification kicks function. “I will spend time on flexion for the effectiveness of the method. off formally the next morning at 9 and extension, internal and external And rest assured, those that actually am. Tracy explained, “We want the rotation, hyperextension, midline, adhere to the methods we empower certification attendees to be familiar fundamental stance, anatomic our certified trainers with, always with the material contained in our stance…we will discuss motion as get results.” Tracy and John Parrillo basic information manual. This allows it applies to the joints, range-of- have been collaborating, refining, us to not waste precious time going motion…I spend a lot of time on shoulder components and function. with how many times a week can the day 1 will also address multiple I talk skeletal and muscular anatomy client realistically work out? Does meal scheduling and how to juggle and repeatedly advise them that the client have physical limitations? micronutrients. they will be tested on what we are I share with the group how to plan discussing. We answer questions and workouts that make allowances and At 9 am on Sunday Tracy starts break for lunch.” can accommodate any situation.” attendees off with a review of the He poses a rhetorical question to his previous day. After the review and a After a 90-minute lunch break, audience. “How would you create a question and answer period, Tracy the certification participants are training strategy for someone that shifts gears and demonstrates an given an in-depth lecture on the could only train twice a week?” Tracy indispensable tool in the toolbox intricate structures of the hips stresses the idea that weight training, of the Parrillo Certified Personal and knees. “These joints are so cardio and nutrition need to be Trainer: the BodyStat kit. “A big part complex that we take time to balanced and preplanned. “I am a big of our nutritional presentation is explain function.” After exploring believer in preplanning. I set realistic introducing attendees to the Parrillo the complex hip and knee joints goals into timeframes and have clients BodyStat procedure for determining in depth, he introduces the