Learning how to build a training program?

jeagogo wrote: »

So I've checked out https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10332083/which-lifting-program-is-the-best-for-you/p1 which has some great resources, but I'm curious about how to learn to develop a training program to meet my specific needs.

For reference, I do aerial training (trapeze and pole) 3x/week, so I want my time spent lifting in the gym to work on the things I don't do in aerial. Since I work core and upper body pulling motions so hard in aerial I definitely don't want to be repeating any of those movements too much in the gym.

I imagine there must be a way to efficiently put together a training program as opposed to just throwing together all the movements I want to work on. Any books or websites that folks can recommend for learning how to put together your own effective training program?

jeagogo wrote: »

cupcakesandproteinshakes wrote: »

It may be worth paying a coach who has experience in programming for people in a similar situation. Is there anyone where you do your arial training who has done any resistance training that you could ask where they got their programming from?

I would agree on the point of working with a trainer if I weren't already spending so darn much on classes and memberships to different gyms and studios. Another $100-200/week would be a bit rough (in my area, trainers generally charge $100+/hour). Unfortunately, the only people I know from aerial and pole who are specifically familiar with other training types are all personal trainers outside of teaching aerial, so I wouldn't want to take advantage of their skillset if I wasn't actually working with them as a trainer, you know?
It's also a bit like giving a man a fish vs. teaching him to fish - I would prefer to learn to fish so I can be more self sufficient.

I know pretty well what my weaknesses are outside of aerial so it's easy enough to find which movements will be good to incorporate, I'm just wary of throwing things together and calling it a training plan. Maybe I'm




Totally understand about the cost.
Do you have any experience of barbell training or are you completely new?

Strong curves isn’t a bad programme for novices to lifting and it is lower body focussed if that’s what you want to train (there is some upper body stuff but less than in other programmes)

I guess you could try strong curves for a few months and see how you get on. I was a bit concerned about advising as I haven’t a clue how taxing your aerial training is and whether a cookie cutter programme like strong curves might not be appropriate.