PT GUEST PASS

Could scaling back be the key to nailing your workout goals? Elite PT Jayne Lo credits her clients’ success to a progressive approach

Jayne Lo shares her back-tobasics progressive workout

The idea that you can accomplish goals through force of will is a modern mainstay. But apply this to strength training and increasing your kilos without proper preparation and where you’re going to end up is injured. Jayne Lo, assistant fitness manager and elite personal trainer at Third Space London, enforces a less-is-more approach, whereby her clients are required to master regressions before adding weights. ‘I’m a strong advocate of “training for life”,’ she explains. ‘And to do that, you need to move better and move more before you can perform better.’

Lo’s aim in going back to basics is the development of unilateral strength – that’s PT speak for training one side of the body while indirectly stimulating the opposite side. The goal is to correct muscle imbalances and improve overall strength both in daily life (think lugging around your heavy gym bag and the arduous task that is changing the bed sheets) and when exercising.

Here, Lo has applied her MO to help you achieve new cycling and running

PBS. ‘This bespoke plan will supercharge lower-body strength, sports performance and joint stability, and help prevent injury,’ she says. Easy does it.