What to do when your client is stronger than you are

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What to do when your client is stronger than you are

By Christina | March 16, 2008

Tomorrow morning I have a client who is as strong as any I have met. I don’t mean strong as in she can bench press 400 lbs, I mean she is able to do everything I ask and then some. She has amazing endurance, strength and balance. She can do one leg squats on the BOSU ball with 20 lb dumbbells as well as she can push a spin bike with high resistance and high speed for a 10 minute sprint. Every week I try to challenge her. Last week I even tried doing the workout with her which left my glutes seriously sore for 3 days! I have tried heavy weights, plyometrics, single leg movements, (she uses me for her leg workouts because she really does not like to work legs) and I have even done full body, multi muscle exercises and every time I see her a day or two later she says… “feeling good, nothing sore!”

Tomorrow we are headed to the basketball court. We will start with suicide drills, then walking lunges - not a few walking lunges, we are going for hundreds! Then we will do walking dead lifts; throw in a few hundred of those, I hope it’s sweltering tomorrow. We will do traveling side squats, hops across the court, side slides and anything else I can think of to see if maybe tomorrow is the day she slows down. Wish me luck as I imagine I am the one who will be walking gingerly on sore legs Tuesday!