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What You Need To Know Before Working With Obese Clients

If you want to reach the obese population and your intentions are honest and true, your practice will thrive. Live out these traits, and embrace the whole person.

• Recognize anatomically which Pilates exercises are appropriate for a particular client on a particular day. You must be flexible in your repertoire to ensure that movements match the client’s physical and energetic needs.
• Be passionate and compassionate about working with this population. Unless you were overweight, you cannot understand the client’s physical experience. Don’t even try.
• Don’t assume that an obese client is home on the couch every night eating bonbons. You do not know the client’s personal history; in some cases, it could be trauma of some sort (abuse, a car accident, divorce) that the client would pinpoint as the trigger for weight gain.
• See beyond the weight factor and help overweight clients create some stability and resiliency on both the physical and emotional levels by building from the “inside out.”
• Know that these clients have the same bones as everyone else and that they can be palpated. The challenge is to see their proper position under adipose tissue.
• Give clients a direct correlation between an exercise and an activity of daily living or a quality-of-life issue.
• Protect your own body while moving an obese client, to avoid injury.
• Teach within your scope of practice, do not discriminate against overweight clients, and treat them with respect, truth, fairness and integrity (Pilates Method Alliance Code of Ethics).
• Always put movement first. Once movement is anchored, introduce other health aspects into a client’s lifestyle. Ideally, the client will do some activity outside of your studio and then “mainstream” into traditional movement programs or community activities, such as walking for a charitable event.
• 10. Be aware that touch is a challenging skill with this population. Too much too fast can further disconnect the client from herself, while the right touch can increase the body’s skills at performing an exercise. Ask permission first, and then start at the furthest points from the abdomen (hands, feet, shoulders). This will build a sense of safety and trust.
  

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