If you are looking to take your fitness to the next level or you’re someone who simply wants to know how to improve your fitness routine, a personal trainer could be exactly what you need. Working out can be intimidating for various reasons, including a lack of motivation. This is precisely how a personal trainer can significantly impact the effectiveness of your workouts.
Deciding to work with a personal trainer is highly subjective and shouldn’t be taken lightly for someone’s fitness journey. A fitness journey with a personal trainer can help better address fitness goals, current mental and physical health, weight loss, efficiency and the long term.
Another major piece about why personal training works is finding a trainer you click with. Finding a personal trainer that can design the best training programming for you and keep you accountable and motivated is critical. If you do not find a personal trainer you click with, you will likely be very disappointed with your experience at the gym.
Accountability
A fitness journey is a personal, dynamic, and multi-layered experience. Accountability is a massive component of a fitness journey and often is the glue that ties the journey to results. Maintaining consistency in fitness programming is often the most challenging piece for people and finding where it fits into their lifestyle.
Simply put: if someone is expecting you to be somewhere at a specific time, you are more likely to show up than if you did not have that person expecting you. Working with a personal trainer adds another layer besides money, time, and respecting someone else’s time.
Research shows that the more support people have regarding their fitness journey, the more likely they are to succeed. Be mindful that the definition of success in fitness varies from person to person.
Learning
A personal trainer has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to nutrition, fitness, human anatomy, mental health and motivation tactics. Most personal trainers must become certified through an accredited organization, pass a certification exam, and earn continuing education credits in order to stay up to date.
Human physiology, body mechanics, exercise science, and behaviors are all in a personal trainer’s wheelhouse. They can help you learn proper form, how to use equipment, and build a program tailored to you and your goals. One of the best examples of learning with a personal trainer comes from the widely used bodyweight squat. A squat should be a natural movement for humans and one that is used regularly in and out of the gym. However, there are many critical factors to performing a squat, including:
- head and back positioning,
- pelvis and knee alignment,
- foot positioning
- other variables such as current fitness level and injuries.
With a personal trainer, you can learn to squat perfectly and how it best fits into your fitness routine.
Goal Setting
Before creating any type of programming, it is necessary to look at goal setting. Learning how to set goals or just about the habit of setting them is essential. A personal trainer can help devise realistic and achievable goals based on current circumstances and fitness levels. A personal trainer can help you create short-term and longer-term goals with a profound understanding of the how, why, and what behind your goals.
Personalized Programming
2023 is easy to throw together a workout or individualized program with a quick Google search or some scrolling on Instagram or TikTok. You probably won’t even need to search because it pops up on feeds all on its own. What Google, IG, or TikTok can’t do is notice that your left leg may be weaker than your right, like a personal trainer can. You may not even know this yourself, either. This type of imbalance has been causing you to compensate through many daily movements and enhances imbalance. Keeping in mind the goal setting and understanding your lifestyle, a personal trainer can program training at a holistic level. Walking into a gym without a plan can be intimidating, but your trainer can give you all the tools and information to prepare for every session.
Check out this article to learn how our trainers can help you create the perfect gym workout plan!
Efficiency
A personal trainer has usually seen it all – they have seen those that wander from one machine to the next, the ones who check their phone after each set or those who come in with a plan. A personal trainer can minimize wasted time and maximize results simultaneously. If you have a busy schedule and can only fit in 30 minutes, that is something that they can work into your programming and overall goal-setting. Exercises and accountability techniques will also be selected accordingly, helping you to find a system that works.
Nutritional Guide
This falls under all other benefits of working with a personal trainer. Still, the nutritional guidance of a personal trainer is instrumental in accountability, goal setting, forming good habits, having an individual plan and efficiency. As much as we may dislike it, nutrition is one of the most prominent players in the fitness journey.
Mental Health
Because mental and physical health is massively connected, physical exercise has a delicate relationship with mental health. A personal trainer can help you implement fitness to better your mental health. Training is essential for everyone, and a personal trainer can help you find the best way to work out in keeping with your goals, schedule, and obstacles.
Key Takeaways
So, does hiring a personal trainer work? This all depends on the individual, but in our experience, you would hire a fitness coach for many different reasons, from learning how to use different training techniques to creating a nutrition plan based on your needs. If you’d like to learn more about personal training with the coaches here at The BXNG Club, contact us today to discuss the options and book an intro session with a team member!
