Bodyguard Fitness Regime

Bodyguard fitness regimes are becoming increasingly popular as the number of unfortunate people getting involved in “bodily” harm increase with time. As a personal trainer and fitness instructor I am often asked if bodyguard fitness regimes are a good way to go if you want to reduce your risk of injury or even getting killed by an attacker. My reply is always, “Yes”.

The main reason people have an increased risk of serious injury is due to the amount of exercises they perform during their daily exercise regime. Most bodyguard training programs will include some form of aerobic exercise, but in my experience these courses tend to be very “stiff”, and most participants never push themselves to the extreme of actually doing aerobic exercise.

A large majority of bodyguard company London fitness regime participants simply “work out” their upper body by lifting some sort of weight. This type of exercise is great for strengthening the muscles that will prevent an attack from occurring, but it is not something that addresses the issue of the muscles that are used in striking. So if an attacker were to strike at your legs rather than your upper body, your legs would definitely be targeted.

An effective bodyguard fitness regime needs to address the issue of exercise stress as well. As mentioned above, one of the most important elements to a bodyguard training program is the stress on the upper body during exercises. If the exercise is tough (and you are sure it is not, because you are paying someone else to do it) then the stress on the upper body will increase your risk of injury. So the thing to do is to look for an exercise that does not place as much strain on the legs, and is ideally suited to bodyguard training.