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Column: Fitness Focus with Joe Harman
Breaking Barriers
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am a specialist personal trainer and sports massage therapist and the director of Breaking Barriers, a business which I created based in Aston Clinton, Bucks. Breaking Barriers provides specialist personal training, sports massage and osteopathic spinal manipulation for people experiencing injury, illness or disability. We support people experiencing physical injury, head injury, stroke, neurological illness, chronic pain, back pain, arthritis, diabetes, obesity issues, autism, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, or any other personal challenges that cause a barrier to physical health/activity or fitness. Breaking Barriers focuses on rehabilitation based physical activities utilising specialist training or sport massage targeting: movement, mobility, flexibility, muscle tone, strength, balance, core strength, pain reduction, and reducing aches, pains and discomfort. We also support increasing fitness through varied
physical gym based activities. We offer our Breaking Barriers private one-to-one gym facility for our clients. We can also visit clients in their own homes or in their own local gyms. We will work to support our clients as well as working alongside family members, carers/support workers or professionals such as physiotherapists, to provide the best interventions. As the creator of Breaking Barriers, I am passionate about motivating and inspiring people facing their own challenges, to improve their physical abilities through rehabilitation or fitness sessions. I experienced my own challenges after a serious road accident 7 years ago, and I worked hard through my own rehabilitation to recover. This
inspired me to retrain in the fitness field and through my experiences I can empathise and understand some of the challenges my clients face, whilst also motivating clients to achieve more than they may think is possible to break through barriers to achieve their goals. Last year I received a national award for the work of Breaking Barriers in supporting people with disabilities in fitness. I aim to ensure every session is different, fun (and a little challengingđ&#x;˜Š) for clients to help them to keep progressing. Whether we are focused on rehabilitation or fitness we tailor Joe with client everything to the individual client. Specialist personal training sessions with injury/illness or disability can vary – session may involve being very active and energetic- using
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Joe Harman
Rehabilitation fitness cardio machines, weight equipment, kettle bells, battle ropes, bosu balls and much more! Or, sessions may involve opening up or strengthening the use of an arm, hand or leg, or completing mobility exercise to support walking or balance, working slowly and carefully at a client’s pace. Breaking Barriers has a range of equipment available including being the first gym in the UK to offer a state of the art SMARC cardio rehabilitation machine. If you would like to find out more, please do get in touch to talk about how we can help l Telephone: 07581 039611;
email: breakingbarrierspt@
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