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Personal training is a professional, cooperative relationship between the client and the trainer, centered on achieving each individual client’s fitness goals. Those goals may be losing weight, toning up, increasing strength, increasing flexibility, improving posture, improving cardiovascular health, improving endurance, improving performance in a particular sport, or any combination of these goals.
Personal training is education in each of the five components of physical fitness: Strength, Endurance, Cardiovascular Health, Flexibility, and Body Composition. It is also education in the importance of proper nutrition. Proper nutrition plays a huge role in overall health, and will greatly affect each of the five components of fitness.
Personal training is preventive medicine. Being in good physical condition can help prevent or significantly delay many different diseases and health problems, including heart disease, osteoporosis, obesity, and arthritis.
Personal training is one of the best investments you can make for your overall health and well-being. You will look better, feel better, and most importantly improve your level of health!
Personal training is sometimes misconceived as the trainer just forcing the client to work harder, with little regard for his/her overall well being. However, it is just the opposite. Yes, there is some discomfort involved with exercise, but it is 100% necessary. Your body needs a certain level of stress to be able to adapt and change. But that stress has to be applied properly — and consistently varied — so that the body is forced to keep adapting. Personal training, therefore, is having a knowledgeable fitness professional guide you along your way to better health - to continually stressing your body properly so that it will continue to change. If you had no idea how to remodel your house, would you waste countless hours trying to do it yourself? No, you’d seek out a knowledgeable contractor who'd be able to do it for you. Why then, do people spend countless hours trying to fix their bodies on their own, when they could learn so much from someone who has that knowledge?
A good personal trainer is a fitness professional, certified to work with one or a few people at a time. The goal of the trainer is to improve the client’s overall health and achieve his/her specific fitness goals. He does this by gathering information about the client and then prescribing a sound exercise and nutrition plan, based on the client’s needs and goals.
A good personal trainer is an educator, one who can provide valuable knowledge in each of the five components of physical fitness: Strength, Endurance, Cardiovascular Health, Flexibility, and Body Composition. A good trainer will also educate the client on how proper nutrition plays a vital role in improving each of these areas, and in bettering his/her overall health and appearance.
A good personal trainer will be a motivator to the client, pushing him past what he thought he could do, all the while keeping his safety in mind. A good trainer is not a drill sergeant, but a guide who understands his client’s needs and limitations, and what he will have to do to achieve his personal fitness goals.
A good trainer will continue to provide the client with new information, different kinds of workouts, motivation and positive reinforcement. A good trainer will offer as much as he can to the client. A good trainer will do the best he can to change or improve long-term fitness habits, which will enable the client to stay healthy for life.
