Dreaming of a beautiful, toned figure, many diets and fasting days prefer going to the gym. Starting a conversation with an employee of a fitness center comes to an understanding of how many interesting directions exist. And it’s incredibly difficult to choose one thing, especially if you haven’t been connected with sports before.

Personal training is one of the best options relevant at the initial stage of body shaping. What is it? A coach is “attached” to a beginner or more experienced athlete, who helps to work out the body according to a pre-compiled program, monitors the technique of performing exercises, and gives expert advice, including nutrition.

Personal training – an individual program of classes and exercises. Individual programs motivate clients to be more responsible, consider their individual goals and needs, and ensure communication between the client and the trainer. The instructor can objectively evaluate the client’s strengths and limitations and track the dynamics of improvement. This allows you to make adjustments as the program progresses.

A personal instructor should not tell you how this or that exercise is performed; he should guide, support, and advise on all questions. In addition to a set of exercises, the instructor can advise on other matters, such as general health, nutrition, etc. Qualified personal trainers are constantly improving their knowledge in medicine and nutrition.

Why do you need a personal trainer?

Classes with a trainer can be more profitable for you in terms of material costs and time.

It’s easy to explain. After all, how long will it take for a beginner to independently master the correct technique for performing exercises, understand the training principles and learn how to make a diet correctly? On average, it takes several years for visitors to the gym to do it independently.

So, now on the points about why you need a coach:

1. Two years to master the basics of training? How are you? I think it’s too long. Turning to a competent specialist will reduce this time interval to several months. So newbies are welcome.
2. With extensive experience and knowledge in anatomy and physiology, he will protect you from possible injuries and create an individual training complex.
3. People tend to feel sorry for themselves, which can be partly blamed on the brain, which is always trying to save energy. For this reason, you are more likely to hack when training without a mentor.
4. Only a professional can soberly assess your progress in the gym. Indeed, in addition to visual assessment, in which customers often make mistakes, there are special tests. With their help, you can understand how your flexibility, coordination, strength, and endurance have changed.
5. A competent specialist can make you a diet for your goals or give you useful recommendations. This will lead you to your goal faster and save you from extra costs for various weight loss products or sports nutrition.

What are the benefits of personal training?

There is a huge amount of information on the Internet about exercising effectively. However, all this does not guarantee a quick and high-quality result during implementation. The training programs presented in the open spaces of the network deserve special attention. You should not follow them since the schemes for each athlete are selected individually, and it is necessary to perform the exercises correctly.

This is when the services of a personal trainer come into play. They have many benefits:

1. With a coach, you will achieve results much faster, thanks to the precise setting of movement techniques and the ability to use more effective exercises. At the beginning of fitness classes, it is almost impossible to perform effective exercises independently since technique correction from the outside and insurance are necessary. If you neglect these rules, you will learn the wrong and traumatic technique, which can negatively affect the result and your health sooner or later.
2. The trainer works with you according to an ideally developed methodological scheme. Most people who train in fitness centers on their own do not have the necessary methodological knowledge.
3. The coach systematically monitors the state of your health, conducts the necessary tests, and determines the readiness for the load in training. Many do not even suspect monitoring at least the pulse and pressure constantly is important. But even such seemingly simple measurements require special skills that every instructor owns.
4. Very important! The trainer very accurately doses the load for you during the lesson. If you give yourself a small training load, this will not be enough for further changes. If you overdo it a little, you will overstrain the nervous system, and the positive changes that have begun can quickly stop. You need a “golden mean,” which, thanks to the knowledge and many years of experience, is precisely determined by the coach.
5. The coach will help you control your nutrition system. We all know that our nutrition is often far from even satisfactory. Long breaks between meals, “fast” food, and evening overeating greatly hinder our progress. In addition, too often, you want to “give up the slack” about the absorption of all kinds of sweets. The coach will help you organize meals the best way throughout the day. He will become a reliable partner, helping to cope with weaknesses and achieve the desired result.

6. Classes with a trainer will encourage you to train regularly. Unfortunately, nothing will change simply from the desire to achieve some result – efforts will always be required, even for small changes. The coach sets you up and necessarily stimulates you to find the strength in yourself that will improve your body, strengthen your health and achieve results from time to time. If necessary, the coach will be able to set you up even for a feat in training! Sometimes we skip class because we don’t feel like it or because the weather is great, and we want to do something completely different. If you know that a coach is waiting for you, you will get ready and come to class, which you will never regret.
7. The trainer reliably ensures you and helps you during the exercises. Performing any exercise, you can be sure that you are insured against mistakes and failures with a coach. Reliable insurance and the necessary assistance allow you to focus only on yourself, enjoy the session and improve yourself from training to training.
8. The coach is responsible for your result. The coach understands the high degree of trust on your part and the responsibility for achieving the goal, so he uses every opportunity to improve the effectiveness of classes.
9. Being engaged individually, you will always experience an increased interest in training. Interest in training is one of the keys to success. It is difficult to maintain interest in classes alone for a long time; sometimes, it is simply impossible. Thanks to your knowledge and experience, the coach will make your programs varied, allowing you to train with great interest and enthusiasm.
10. Individual classes are especially indicated for various injuries and any health deviations. Suppose you want to complete a rehabilitation course and continue training or want to improve yourself. Still, if you have health problems, take advantage of personal lessons – such classes are ideal. The instructor will select the necessary exercises and the appropriate load for you, improving your health and quickly achieving the desired results.
11. The trainer is an interesting interlocutor for communication. A training session in a fitness center cannot be considered only as some work aimed solely at the result. For many visitors to the halls, this is still relaxation, “hangout,” and communication. Therefore, the trainer, like any professional in his field, will create a pleasant atmosphere for you in class for interesting communication and active recreation.

Despite the obvious advantages of training with a mentor, there are still disadvantages:

• Currently, the fitness industry is oversaturated with “specialists” who have completed two-week courses. This is the main disadvantage – you can get to an illiterate specialist. A spoiled personal experience is the most innocuous thing you can expect.
• Not everyone likes to be supervised. Someone is just an introvert, while someone understands that they will have to leave their comfort zone and listen to the commands of another person.
• Private lessons cost money. And they can cost you in the amount of 10$ per workout. This is a conditional negative. After all, under the guidance of a professional, you will achieve your goal faster.
• Professionals in their field are very busy. Therefore, you will have to adapt to their schedule.

How to choose a good coach?

So, dear readers, I hope you understand that the coach is far from being an extra person in a fitness club. But here, you face not the easiest task – the choice of a personal trainer.

How to get only pluses from personal computers and reduce all the minuses to nothing?

• The first acquaintance with a coach is better to start with an overview of his regalia and education. This information is posted on the website or a stand in the club. You can ask the coach himself if all this is not there.
• If courses are displayed in the “education” column, you can find out about their level and the quality of education there. Of course, the advantage should be enjoyed by a person whose basic education is sports. But that doesn’t always mean he’s good at what he does.
• Going directly to a personal acquaintance, pay attention to what he (she) asks you and says whether he is interested in your goals, whether he surveys health, daily routine, and personal preferences in the training process.
• Pay attention to the coach’s emotions at the moment of dialogue with you. Is he interested in what you answer him, and how willingly does he answer your questions? You can casually ask him a few questions about anatomy or related to training with health restrictions. If you are not ashamed, you can directly ask them to name ten single-joint muscles; this will show their knowledge of anatomy.
• Do not immediately take a training block (this is a subscription to several classes, which is paid in advance). Your first personal card can serve as a way of additional verification. On it, pay attention to whether the coach is monitoring your technique and not being distracted by chatting with other visitors or chatting on social networks. Does your fitness coach keep a workout diary?

Who is personal training for?

Personal training is not for everyone. If you have at least minimal experience in doing exercises and working with simulators ( dumbbells, exercise bike, treadmill ), then you can do it without the help of a senior specialist. Most of all, this format of classes is relevant for the following categories:

• Newcomers. Inexperienced athletes do not know anything about safety precautions or the principles of operation of simulators. They do not know how to draw up training programs correctly. A personal trainer will help fill the “gaps” in knowledge within the framework of a whole range of classes.
• Athletes who cannot achieve a result over a long period. A category of people train hard, but, unfortunately, the weight stands still, or the muscle mass does not want to grow. This means that in some way, they make a mistake, and they cannot do without the help of a personal trainer.
• People want to lose a few pounds but can’t force themselves to do it. During each session, a personal trainer control athlete, tracking every movement and motivating them to achieve excellent results constantly. If you can’t do the exercises due to laziness, buying a subscription completely solves this problem.
• People after injuries and operations in need of rehabilitation training. In this case, the program should be compiled by a professional trainer who considers the body’s characteristics at this stage and the specifics of the disease or injury.
• People who feel embarrassed when they exercise on their own. Most beginners feel uncomfortable during the first months of training. For this reason, they are not engaged in full force. An experienced instructor-mentor helps to cope with shyness and embarrassment. Gradually, the athlete gains self-confidence and begins to train as competently and efficiently as possible.

Interesting fact. Personal training is possible in almost any type of training. It can be aerobics, Tabata, circular exercises, and even bodybuilding. Try to start a sports path with the help of professionals. It won’t be long before something great happens.

How many workouts do you need to do with a trainer?

Your instructor may suggest that you train six times a week. But this is not entirely consistent with common sense, but the benefit is just right. This, by the way, is another sign of the incompetence of a specialist.

The number of sessions the trainer should determine based on your health and physical condition. Beginners should visit the gym three times a week and carry out each lesson under supervision.

More experienced visitors can visit the gym up to 4 times a week. But it is not necessary to spend every session with a personal trainer. You can contact the services of a personal assistant only when changing the training split or when mastering a new fitness direction.

How quickly will the results from training with a trainer appear?

Some clients want to lose weight for an important event in a week or pump up a month before the summer. They come to the coach and declare their goals. But after a short conversation, they considered him incompetent since he told them that achieving such goals in such a short time was impossible. In this situation, the personal employee is only to blame for not “cutting sharp corners,” but saying everything as it is and losing customers.

The conclusion from this story can be drawn as follows: clients tend to overestimate the ability of the human body to burn fat and build muscle.

We do not undertake to evaluate the abilities of your organisms because we are all different. But I can say with confidence that you will achieve results much faster than with independent classes under the guidance of a good personal trainer.

But still a few numbers. If you first come to the gym and want to lose 10 kg, then with independent training, the result may appear only after six months. And with a coach – we can achieve it in 2 months. And if you strictly follow all the recommendations, the result is almost guaranteed!