Personal Training

Make sure you are seeing a trainer that has the education to back up what they are telling you. A lot of gyms "train" their trainers and they have a basic workout that they use with all clients. If you are using a personal trainer that owns their own company or is a part of a gym or whatever ask for references of past clients and for their credentials. You are thinking of investing a good amount of money on a trainer, one way to think of it is how many hours to you have to work to pay your trainer for 30 minutes and is that worth it. You may also want to see if there is group training available, this tends to cost less because the trainer is training people with similar goals and needs at the same time.

Personally, I found that the expense was not worth it to me, I could buy a lot of home equipment for what a trainer was going to cost, and quite honestly I decided that I was the only one that could truly motivate me to get up and get moving and I just felt like If I had to pay someone to tell me to do what I should already be doing then I was insane. I do think it comes down to a matter of your personal preference, you have to do what is right for you.

Good luck with your decision. :flowerforyou:

I've seen three personal trainers in my life. One owned the gym and was in school earning a degree in nutrition and fitness, also massage therapy, mmmm. That was nice because he did his practicum work on the clients. He was awesome and was free with the membership but would have been worth the money. The second trainer was a client at the gym, trained to introduce people to the equipment and basic safety, etc, also free and would not have been worth the money. The third woman was self employeed as a trainer, had a degree in the fitness field, and was free with the membership for one session, available for consults if she was in the gym working out, and you could hire her for about $35 for a half hour, well worth the money. She trained body builders, etc. Do call and ask for the background of the person you are paying, it could be worth it if you have a one on one session. Sometimes these people do it as a small group of 3 or 4 clients.

I'm a teacher and about 25 of us hired a trainer together, bringing the cost way down and the accountability up! We meet every Mon, Wed, Fri with him in our gym and have a blast together. See if you can find a few others to do it with you...it's so much more worth it!!!