Personal Training

What is in this deck

With this deck you learn the knowledge a personal trainer works from: anatomy and muscle actions, the energy systems, progressive overload and periodisation, assessment, and scope of practice.

Adherence beats programme design. A mediocre plan followed produces more than an optimal one abandoned, and that finding shapes half of what a trainer actually does.

100 cards. The planes, the actions and the muscles, with the origin and insertion trick that makes an action derivable rather than memorised. The three energy systems and which dominates when. Then programming: progressive overload in its five forms, periodisation, what actually drives hypertrophy, and why early strength gains are largely neural.

Scope of practice is a card, not a footnote. Programming exercise is within it; diagnosing, treating and writing prescriptive diet plans are not, and crossing the line ends both a certification and an insurance policy.

The categories decide what comes up: start with “Anatomy” alone and add the rest when you are ready.

What you learn

• Planes, actions, and deriving a muscle's job
• Energy systems, fibre types and motor unit recruitment
• Progressive overload, periodisation and deloading
• Assessment, screening and when to refer out
• Behaviour change, adherence and scope of practice

The categories

13 categories sort the 100 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.

1. Anatomy
2. Assessment
3. Behaviour
4. Flexibility
5. Guidelines
6. Injury
7. Movement
8. Nutrition
9. Physiology
10. Populations
11. Practice
12. Programming
13. Recovery

Learning with Qardbox

You see a card, you think, you turn it over and say whether you knew it. A round asks nothing more of you, and how the app works out the next date from that is on the page about FSRS-6.

What sits comes back less often, what wobbles comes back soon. You set a daily goal, and when nothing is due the app tells you exactly that instead of inventing work for you. How a round goes is shown on the learning page.

Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no ads. After the purchase the deck sits in your library like any other subject and can be studied, reordered and extended just like your own.

What it costs, and what it doesn’t

Qardbox itself costs nothing, and it stays that way. Every function is there from the start, with no subscription, no ads and no tiers; what that rests on is on the page about what it costs.

Your own cards stay unlimited, and decks from friends or from the family you read in without a limit, from a file as well. You do not need this deck in order to learn with Qardbox.

It is a shortcut: 100 checked cards for €1.29, once, with Family Sharing. The work you would otherwise do is already done. The App Store shows the price in your currency.