Reasons for Working with a Personal Trainer

 Motivation and Commitment – Our lives are hectic and demanding. Working with a personal trainer for at least an hour three times per week, shows that you are prioritizing your health and fitness above the other demands that life consistently makes of us. This is therapeutic selfishness: taking care of your own health and wellness needs allows you to meet the demands of jobs, spouse, children, etc with greater flexibility and genuine attention to the needs of others. Something as insignificant as setting a date down in your trainer’s appointment book creates adherence to an exercise regimen, where an open ended gym membership for some people only creates at most hit or miss gym attendance.

Your Personal Trainer is skilled at  creating exciting and fun workouts that you will look  forward to and at recording and assessing your performance. Tracking progress and assessing basic fitness components such as aerobic fitness and body fat allows you to quantitate improvement. When you can see your progress on the page and on your body, motivation and commitment become self perpetuating.

Truly Personalized Programs – By assessing your fitness level and talking with you about your goals, your personal trainer can customize a program for you. As your trainer gets to know you and the way your body reacts to exercise,   he/she can tweak your program, using their academic knowledge and hard won practical experience so  that you can benefit from the shortcuts an experienced trainer can give you and not have to “reinvent the wheel” on your own.

Program Intensity – A trainer can inspire and challenge you to work with more intensity than you might have on your own and make your training truly time-efficient, fun and effective.

Conditioning is complex and can be quite specialized. Tennis Players should not train like body builders. A Financial Analyst looking for health and wellness and a way to blow off stress shouldn’t train like an NFL Lineman. Program design should be appropriate for your goals utilizing some or all of the following:

· Functional and Stability Training

· Aerobic and H.I.I.T. Conditioning

· Strength Training

· Sports Conditioning

· Body Shaping

· Plyometric and Speed Training

· Weight Loss