Personal Trainer

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  • LabRat529
    LabRat529 Posts: 1,323 Member
    Ask if you can get a sample training session. A good trainer should do it for you. If not, then all they care about is money.

    That's a great idea. Thanks.

    Yeah, I definitely don't want some cookie cutter program. The idea behind this is to find someone that can help me get results with my limited range-of-motion... that's why I don't want to use the "kids" at the college. I want someone who knows how to adapt, not just someone that can teach me what the text books say.
  • margojr4
    margojr4 Posts: 259 Member
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  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    So I'm back to thinking about this again, but I'm feeling a bit frustrated.

    The "personal trainers" offered at my university fitness center are college students that are working on some kind of fitness degree. I checked. None of them have any kind of certification and at best they've got a year or two of experience.

    So I started looking for someone else. I just googled personal trainers near my city.. and all I'm getting are people who seem a bit scary bro-science to me.

    How do I tell if they're good vs. if they're some dude that paid $69.95 for an online-certificate? Is there a way I can check up on people? This one guy had all these before and after pictures of supposed clients, but he was also advertising 'burn fat the easy way'! and when people start throwing that line around I get a bit nervous.

    You can do interviews.. Ask to talk to previous clients.. If t's a good trainer, they' should let you do it.
    Like Niner said, Ask for a sample session.. most will do one for free, so that you can see how you feel or if you like them.

    I'm now going on my third trainer since my second one just got promoted to manager at my gym and is no longer training.. and I know I will be doing interviews, because my second trainer was a gem and the rest of them at my gym seem nice but I don't know if they are what I want.
  • ciorsdahmac
    ciorsdahmac Posts: 14
    I got my trainer throguh my gym, I signed up and as part of the "new joiner" pack at the gym you get a programme designed to kick start your membership. The guy who did my programme took all my measurements, then asked me what I wanted to achieve from being a member at the gym. He was very honest and told me that some of my aims were slightly unrealistic, some would take a while and that others we can start work on right away.

    He built a programme for me during the meeting, and didnt mention that he was a personal trainer. It was at the end of the session that I asked him if I wanted to train with someone who would I book through and he told me that he was a certified PT and can train me etc.

    That was 3 years ago, and he has since gone freelance and we have a great relationship. I'm in the UK, but I pay around £14 per session ( 30mins per week every week) and I pay in 20 week blocks. I used to get 1hr every 2 weeks but I needed the motivation of a weekly appointment.

    I'd certainly encourage you to get one, even for a few sessions. If you ask at a local gym about trainers, do they recoomend anyone? Do they have any trainers that work for them? And ask to meet them.

    Good luck x
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