Anytime Fitness - personal trainers - thoughts?

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  • blulas
    blulas Posts: 1
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    Group fitness classes are great for raising your activity level, among other things. However, as the name suggests, group fitness classes are not tailored to the individual and their specific needs. This is what you need a personal trainer for.

    A good personal trainer should spend the time assessing you and your physique, your eating habits, and your lifestyle. They should help you determine what your goals are and then they should tailor a program, which includes resistance training as well as cardio, along with your nutritional needs, that suits you and helps you along the way of achieving those goals. A good trainer should work with you on proper form, breathing, and various other factors which increase your chance of success while ensuring safety.

    If you can afford a good trainer, and the prices you listed are pretty average, then you should find one that you mesh with personally. If you are a woman, perhaps you should hire a female trainer, there are some fantastic female trainers out there (my wife among them of course). Also, don't necessarily pick the most popular trainer in the gym, they may be too busy to give you the attention you require, and you do require this.

    A good trainer will continue to adjust your program based on your results, this is why you should purchase a package rather than individual sessions. However, you need to be honest with your trainer, follow what they say to the letter, in order to achieve results. Simply hiring a trainer doesn't make you loose weight, get fit, or in any other way help you achieve your goal, it's up to you. The people that succeed in achieving their goals usually gain this success outside the gym. Just because you go to the gym for an hour each day, hire a trainer, doesn't mean you can leave the gym, hit McDonalds, and achieve results.

    And one more thing, to the ladies out there, don't be afraid when your trainer instructs you to use weight (resistance) training. Allow your trainer to dispel the myths associated with this. You won't get "bulky" because you lift weights, you will get bulky because of your diet and your lifestyle.

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