Sad?? Yes, but very true.
It seems these days that most personal trainers are merely more than just rep counters but are people just biding their time for a better job offer to come along.
To make matters even worse, the public’s perception is proven right more often than not by the increasing overturn of personal trainers that seem to come and go at an alarming rate. This leaves gyms with fresh-faced, newly qualified and largely inexperienced kids to take on the role of safeguarding the health and fitness of the general public.
NOT GOOD!
After all, an average of 50-80 dollars is spent for an hour with a trainer. Getting a personal trainer is not cheap but these are professional rates. With professional rates should come professional service in return for handing over their hard earned cash.
BUT before you all think personal training and fitness coaching is a waste of time and money i would like to you reconsider.
Although there are endless numbers of inexperienced trainers being thrown at the job market every 4 weeks, there are the highly motivated, exceedingly knowledgeable and time-served professionals who provide more than your “one more rep” of encouragement.
These TRU professionals go beyond the basics to provide you with an whole approach to health, fitness, nutrition, lifestyle and mindset. This, without a doubt, makes them a TRULY formidable weapon in the battle of the bulge (or whatever other health and fitness goals you may be working toward).
An example of what a TRU trainer might provide for you:
To be honest, the TRU personal trainer can be best summed up by their sincere and genuine believe that if your not assessing, you are simple just guessing. This would be both unfair and unethical to build a clients program without knowing everything we could possibly know that may be hindering the client from their goals.
A detailed and in depth plan for the achievement of your goals
You can tell the calibre of a TRU personal trainer by the quality and clarity of the plans and programs that they put together for you to help you reach your health and fitness goals
Unlike the TRU trainers, we find most of the industry newbie’s with their “off the top of their head” workouts, stalking the public gyms. TRU trainers create absolute masterpieces of planning that cover everything from the training program to the detailed nutrition design, supplementation, proper hydration, sleep and literally everything else that could be possibly affecting your goals.
A Tailor-Made support structure that fits you to your goal and works in REAL life.
Its all too easy for your novice trainer to create this PERFECT PICTURE workout plan, put pressure on the client to follow every move and then blame them every time they fall off the band wagon but the truth is, people have real lives and real issues to contend with around their desire to achieve their health and fitness goals.
“Stuff” gets into the way of life and they find themselves resorting back to their default settings around health and fitness and before we know it their goals come to a SCREECHING HALT!
BUT not with the professional personal trainer they don’t!
Rather than being offended by the client breaking 1 of their many commandments, the TRU trainer accepts and expects that this will and might happen and plans accordingly.
Taking a planned approach and creating some answers for the “what if’s”, leaves the trainer with the knowledge of when a hug, a pat on the back or a kick in the butt is in place for the client. This will help keep the clients on track with a minimum amount of fuss
An accountability structure, making it easy for the client to keep going and tough to give up.
In Health and Fitness, people quit to easily. This is just a fact.
Life seems to get in the way and before you know it the results are getting slower and slower and somehow the drive to keep consistent, falls.
A newly trainer will do one of two things. First, they will either hit you with a powerful blast of motivation that will lead the client back on track for a temporary fix. Or, the trainer will lose sight of the clients motivation and lose confidence in them. This results in the loss of the client and the notion that he or she cannot succeed in the battle of the bulge.
On the other hand, the master trainer knows better than to use these methods and helps the clients use the tools of belief and inspiration that only the trainee can find from within him/hers self. The master trainer reminds them of their daily goals and affirmations and why they wanted to get there in the first place and what it is going to FEEL like when they reach the end.
All personal trainers are NOT created equal. Results are NOT the same across the board. No two personal trainers are the same, even if they graduated from the same course or schooling. The knowledge, skills, abilities and passion for what they do will always be different.
This is simply a FACT!
If you EVER think about hiring a personal trainer to help achieve your health and fitness goals, ask yourself “Am i speaking with a newbie or master?” before you even think about taking them on.
I hope you have learned from this article and if you ever want to reach your health and fitness goals faster than ever before make sure you are not wasting your money and time!
In Health and Fitness,
Eric Daye- CFP-PTS
Physique transformation specialist
www.trubodyfitness.com
www.bodyblitzbootcamp.ca
info@bodyblitzbootcamp.ca
eric@trubodyfitness.com
