Hey,

Hope you are doing well…

The school sport season is in full swing and I just need to congratulate my 1st Team Rugby boys. They played like absolute champions against Monument on Monday. They were unlucky to draw the game 5-5. They were by far the better team on the field.

Thought I would share another testimonial we received from one of our clients. This time it’s from a mother!

Testimony of my son’s recovery at Sportcon

At 4, my son was diagnosed with asthma and given cortisone.  His weight gain was 17 kilograms in 3 months. By the time we realised he was not asthmatic and didn’t need cortisone, he had developed insulin resistance from the cortisone  and  was referred to a few dieticians to try and reverse the insulin resistance.  Weight gain was controlled by exercise – swimming training and diet.

About 8 years ago he had a nasty accident.  After 2 operations the injury healed yet the rehabilitation took a long time.  It started with a  years   bio kinetics twice a week, and  as a swimmer he had 3 years of technique re-training and yet nothing seemed to help him recover his confidence in his ankle and leg. Eventually he changed to long distance swimming and also changed his professional coach.  After two years of training he was still not using his legs properly.  His weight gain was gradual but constant as his level of active exercises was decreasing.  He was battling to run as he started compensating with his other leg which led to both legs and ankles becoming strained. He tried soccer and cricket. He battled with both sports. He started developing pains in his knees and lower back but continued regardless.  As he became taller his weight gain increased. He changed to rugby but with the weaker ankles and increased pain he eventually threw in the towel.  As his parents, we sent him to private trainers to try and resolve his strength issues.  We resent him to bio kinetics, we enrolled him in a local gym.

My son started having feet problems.  Due to his accident and the overcompensation of his legs and ankles, his feet muscles started taking great strain and eventually his feet arches collapsed which meant he was given orthotics for his shoes. This in turn began creating problems with his toe nails which meant the doctors had to periodically remove sections of his toe nails. His back ache started increasing. He was still playing cricket and used to endure the pain during the cricket matches and when he had to bat and run, he would come off the field with ever constant pain.  His cricket day depended on how his legs responded on the day.

I met with Stian after finding his number in the Krugersdorp News.  I was at the point of giving up. Swimming,  cricket, soccer, rugby, running are all children’s sports which were becoming unpleasant for him. We had tried so many professionals, yet there had never actually been a permanent improvement.  Stian was a young athletic man and full of enthusiasm.  Very understanding  and  very knowledgeable.  He explained that he would work with my son in private lessons at first.

Stian trained with my son privately for a year. During this year he worked on physical strength but he worked with my son as a whole balanced human being and encouraged confidence, diet, self-esteem and the trauma of the injury  some years before became a memory.  He redeveloped trust in my son to use his legs properly.  Within that year, the doctors recommended an operation to resolve the nail removal for good.  Upon visiting the orthopaedic surgeon,  I requested that he check my sons feet arches .  The collapsed feet arches had strengthened due to Stian’s training methods and the orthotics were stopped immediately.  He can now wear any shoes and walks properly.

2012 has been wonderful.  My son has started  jogging , the pain in his legs has gone, he has started reversing the weight gain.  His leg strength and ankle agility has increased.  I attended the open day and my son was training with the high school rugby players. During the training demonstration it was amazing to see how my son could move sideways over obstacles with the young men, he could do every exercise they did without any pain or lack of confidence.

To date he trains 3 x a week and is part of a training gym just like everyone else. He walks normally and runs and jogs normally. For the first time in many years he has no pain and is developing into the young man without any side effects of an injury that controlled him for years.  His ability to train to the best of his physical ability has had a positive impact on his insulin resistance as it has dropped  5 points in the last 6 months. As long as he is training and losing weight his insulin will gradually drop until that also resolves itself.

Stian has been such a blessing to my son and has become a strong role model.  I have no idea where we would be now, if we had not joined Sportcon and if Stain had not become my son’s trainer. As a grade 3 youth trainer he has the edge and has achieved what other professionals couldn’t do.  He is specialised and has an amazing ability to encourage trust in young people. He worked through some difficult sessions to get a break through. He was strict and disciplined and got the best results from my son.  He is very focussed and has an awesome vision for his members and Sportcon.

My younger son joined at the same time as his brother. His chest was weak due to asthma. He was never much of a sportsman which worried me.  Stian trained him in the youth fitness classes. Not one asthma attack. The training has strengthened his lungs tremendously.  He does the classes with ease now and loves physical activity.

Both my sons are growing and developing at Sportcon and I can only thank Stian for all the time and care he has invested in taking over their training and development. He runs a professional training facility which produces results.  He has a new dynamic approach to training which makes him a step ahead of the rest.

Thank you from an extremely grateful Mom

NEVER GIVE UP!

Stian