Do I Tell My Trainer I Have A Pre-Existent Health Condition?

By ChulucanasGym

Oscar is 33 years old and works out regularily at the gym, although leaving it for periods due to his work charge. However, he has become a cardio-fan –especially spinning- and he rarely did barbells and apparel.

However, after his last break, he has got back and his trainer put him straight to work out apparel and barbells not considering first the little overweight he was. A month and a half after re-starting his training, Oscar feels he can’t complete the whole routine, he tires very fast, and although he noticed it to his trainer, this one seems not to care about and repeats Oscar he is going to accostum eventually.

Oscar’s family has a diabetes record, a health condition that consists in the increase of glucose levels (sugar) in blood. We know from our experience working out that the glucose provides us the energy we are going to use during our routines and our daily life, and it is usually regulated by the hormone called insulin. So, a person with diabetes is not capable to produce insulin for creating this reaction, so if the glucose levels are not controlled, the person can become to collapse.

Oscar confesses  he already began to make some frequent analysis for determining the diabetes risk, and everything seems to be inside the limits until now. “But my trainer doesn’t know it,” Oscar says. One of the reasons he preferred to ignore this medical fact before his trainer is Oscar thinks his trainer will not know how to process this information, and because his trainer could comment it undiscretionally to not-related people.

The issue is that Oscar would have to warn this information to his trainer, first because of his safety, for the training adapts as it collaborates with the prevention of the diabetes (as his case would be), and the second is if Oscar could suffer any type of related problem, his trainer could not have a plaintiff. However, this is not an excuse.

A Data Policy

Independently from the size and the budget of the gym, having a file with key information of every pupil is necessary: full name, address, contact phone numbers (especially in urgency cases), height, weight, age, and current routine.

If the gym can invest an extra money in documenting information, it could include key clinical data as blood group, supplement the pupil could be taking, if there is any pre-existent health condition, and the record of the suggested routine and diet. Some applications allow to manage this information.

This information is a warrant for the pupil, the trainer, and the gym as well, as much as it is taken as true, and it is taken as a guide for the best training routine or diet to determinelike the most adequate for every person. And let’s remember they must be absolutely customized due to the processes of every organism are quite different each other.

Then, if the gym, the trainer, or the pupil decide to ignore this context by their own side, a simple investigation based on those files will make easier to identify responsible people.

Finally, the trainers who are not managing top-profile athletes should consider that if a pupil warns about a pre-existent health condition, whether it is true or false, what is saying is not an exhausting training is looked for, so the trainer must consider the fact as true, and adapting the exigency to the frame that supposedly has been specified or described. In this case, it is worthy to act slowly despite strongly.

And regarding the Oscar’s claim about an alleged undiscrete conduct of his trainer, he should notice it to the gym’s administration for the corrections to be taken. But every gym must have a clear confidentiality disclaimer that has to be explicit on the document every pupil signs up.

Yes. It could seem too many things to include, but we are talking about human lives, not objects. If you are not clear about this detail, you have no clear what the nature of the physical culture is.