On the way to work Tuesday morning an ad on the radio caught
my attention “You wanna be a personal trainer, it’s a no brainer”
?!?!?
?!?!?
‘It’s a no
brainer?’ I kept saying aloud they have got to be kidding!!
These days every second person is a personal trainer – there are SO many phonies out there that listen to the radio and hear ‘successful, own hours, own boss, EASY’ they complete their 6 week online course and they are scarily qualified.
Although I believe I have the best ‘job’ in the world it is NOT easy, most people couldn’t handle the early mornings and late night hours, your dealing with different people all the time with different goals, different fitness levels and different body types (there is no one fits all structure) and to be successful you’ve got to work bloody hard!!!
You can’t just throw a whole heap of exercises together and call it a program.
These days every second person is a personal trainer – there are SO many phonies out there that listen to the radio and hear ‘successful, own hours, own boss, EASY’ they complete their 6 week online course and they are scarily qualified.
Although I believe I have the best ‘job’ in the world it is NOT easy, most people couldn’t handle the early mornings and late night hours, your dealing with different people all the time with different goals, different fitness levels and different body types (there is no one fits all structure) and to be successful you’ve got to work bloody hard!!!
You can’t just throw a whole heap of exercises together and call it a program.
Here are some tips to help you pick a top-notch trainer:
-Does your PT look like a trainer? If your trainer is overweight with no tone or muscle definition – they clearly can’t look after him or herself so how are they going to look after you?
-Does your PT help
you outside of the gym? If your trainer never contacts you outside of the
gym or never asks how your eating is going or even just how you are going in
general then they do not give a flying f*ck – you want a trainer that can help
you, one you can come to training and say ‘I’m in a rut’ and they will give you
advice and ideas to help you out of this rut.
-Does your PT get excited at your victories? You just did your first pull up or first double under and your PT is more excited than you good! It is bloody exciting I love this sh*t! But if your PT doesn’t even notice you’ve just ran that 500m non stop and continues to brag about their half marathon they ran on the weekend we know their victories are more important then yours.
-Does your PT offer extra advice/information? You pull up sore after training or you are unsure what to eat after training or you might have a weak area in your training – does your PT shrug it off or do they hand out/send links/research information to help you? Because they should be!
-Does your PT have specific training? Are you aware of why your PT is making you unless amounts of burpees? Is there a reason? There should be!! No training program should be a heap of exercises thrown together for sh*tz and gigz… ask why if they can’t answer it is time to move on.
Do you see your PT as a mentor? Your PT is there for the main reasons of helping you achieve YOUR goals and this doesn’t even have to be fitness based. (If you have not discussed goals with your PT or if they have never mentioned goals this is not acceptable.) Your PT should be the person that is guiding you to path of greatness – as soon as something great happens they will be one of the first people you will want to tell and when you do tell them they will be proud as hell. They care…. Sometimes too much!
Does you trainer track your progress? You’ve been training for months, if not years how does your trainer track your improvements? This is all goal dependant – do they suggest you take before and after shots? Do they make you write food diaries? Do they record your times? Do they record the weights you lift? Do they remember and make comments such as ‘last time you could only jump 30cms, now you can jump 90cms’ The trainer should be tracking and recording progress. Otherwise how else will you know how you’ve improved?
-Does your PT get excited at your victories? You just did your first pull up or first double under and your PT is more excited than you good! It is bloody exciting I love this sh*t! But if your PT doesn’t even notice you’ve just ran that 500m non stop and continues to brag about their half marathon they ran on the weekend we know their victories are more important then yours.
-Does your PT offer extra advice/information? You pull up sore after training or you are unsure what to eat after training or you might have a weak area in your training – does your PT shrug it off or do they hand out/send links/research information to help you? Because they should be!
-Does your PT have specific training? Are you aware of why your PT is making you unless amounts of burpees? Is there a reason? There should be!! No training program should be a heap of exercises thrown together for sh*tz and gigz… ask why if they can’t answer it is time to move on.
Do you see your PT as a mentor? Your PT is there for the main reasons of helping you achieve YOUR goals and this doesn’t even have to be fitness based. (If you have not discussed goals with your PT or if they have never mentioned goals this is not acceptable.) Your PT should be the person that is guiding you to path of greatness – as soon as something great happens they will be one of the first people you will want to tell and when you do tell them they will be proud as hell. They care…. Sometimes too much!
Does you trainer track your progress? You’ve been training for months, if not years how does your trainer track your improvements? This is all goal dependant – do they suggest you take before and after shots? Do they make you write food diaries? Do they record your times? Do they record the weights you lift? Do they remember and make comments such as ‘last time you could only jump 30cms, now you can jump 90cms’ The trainer should be tracking and recording progress. Otherwise how else will you know how you’ve improved?
Use this advice and apply it to your trainer and see where they stack up!
Stay Strong & Stretch,
Tel X
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