Rochester Athletic Club
Under the direction of Regional Director of Education and Certification for Personal Trainers & Exercise/Fitness Therapists, Robert Bovee, and the staff at RAC works together as a team to help each member/client maintain a balanced, healthy, and fit lifestyle.
RAC’s Professional Personal Trainers, Exercise/Fitness Therapists, Nutrition Specialist, Life Style Management Specialist and Group Instructor’s are highly qualified, dedicated, caring professionals who consider it a privilege to provide professional grade services to the public. Our philosophy of practice is to provide the highest quality of health, wellness, fitness, weight management, injury prevention and rehabilitation care possible. We accomplish this in a compassionate and caring manner and we treat every member/client the way we would want ourselves and our own family members treated.
Whether you are a beginner (first time exercising in a fitness facility), a World Class athlete, or anything in between, RAC has the equipment, expertise and education to help you reach your goals.
The main difference between wellness care and standard medical care is that wellness care seeks to turn on the natural healing ability. Wellness care does not add something to the system, instead it removes anything that might interfere with normal function. Wellness care trusts that the body would know what to do if nothing were interfering with it. Standard medical care, on the other hand, seeks to treat a symptom by adding something from the outside – a medication, a surgery or procedure.
Inside Out vs. Outside In
If a patient has high blood pressure, a standard medical approach would be to choose a drug that lowers blood pressure, and ask the patient to take the drug. This may serve to lower the blood pressure, but ignores the underlying cause that is making the blood pressure high, and runs the risk of side effects complicating the person’s recovery. Whether it’s a nutritional issue, faulty control by the nerve system or a manifestation of stress, the medication could decrease the blood pressure, leaving the problem causing the symptom of high blood pressure unaddressed.
The Wellness Approach
Wellness is a state of optimal conditions for normal function… and then some. The wellness approach is to look for underlying causes of any disturbance or disruption (which may or may not be causing symptoms at the time) and make whatever interventions and lifestyle adjustments would optimize the conditions for normal function. That environment encourages natural healing, and minimizes the need for invasive treatment, which should be administered only when absolutely necessary. When the body is working properly, it tends to heal effectively, no matter what the condition. When the body heals well and maintains itself well, then there is another level of health that goes beyond “asymptomatic” or “pain-free” which reveals an open-ended opportunity for vitality, vibrant health, and an enhanced experience of life.This is true for mental and emotional health as well as physical health. While some people may suffer psychological disorders, creating an atmosphere of mental and emotional wellness will address all but the most serious problems.
