Personal training has become quite popular. With more and more people getting interest in fitness, a lot of them make use of the services of personal trainers to traverse the confusing path of diet and exercise. The price of the personal trainer can vary a lot, however on average a personal training session can cost you about $50 per hour. Considering that you spend three, one-hour sessions with a personal trainer each week, the price of working out with a trainer will be about $650 per week.
This is a significant amount of cash that you will be spending each month and therefore you need to make sure that you are getting the results worth the amount of money you are spending. Some of the personal trainers are very good, however there are a lot of bad ones. Unfortunately it is very counterintuitive to figure out which ones are bad. Fitness related services are a little different when it comes to customer experience. Most of the services are oriented towards comfort. If the professional did a good job then they made the life of the customer easy. For fitness though it is the other way around. To get fit we need to challenge ourselves and get uncomfortable. Therefore to really get you results, a good trainer has to make your life difficult by always challenging you with a difficult workout. Unfortunately for the trainer, if they make the life of the customer too difficult they run the risk of loosing the customer. A lot of trainers therefore play it safe and do not push you as hard. Whenever you are evaluating a personal trainer bear it in mind that a personal trainer might not push you as hard because they do not want to scare you off. It is your job to ask your trainer to push you as hard as you can handle. Below are five signs that you need to look for to realize that your trainer is not pushing you as hard as he should be. > You do not go out of breath: A tough workout is hard on your cardiovascular system. Your muscles are working hard and burning a lot of calories. To burn all those calories you need oxygen and therefore your breathing rate goes up. If you are breathing rate is normal or only mildly higher, then it means that your muscles are not working as hard. You need to increase the intensity of your workout. Gently ask your trainer to increase the intensity of your workout, so that you are working out at your full capacity. > You do not break any sweat: As you burn more calories and sustain the hard work for longer time, your body temperature is going to increase. To keep your body cool, you start sweating. Sweating is a sign that you are struggling and therefore doing a good workout. If you notice that during your workout sessions with your trainer you are not sweating at all then clearly your trainer is not pushing you as hard as he should be. > You end up spending more time talking: A lot of trainers spend a lot of time talking with you about random things. This is their way of keeping you happy and entertained. It is all about the experience and as long as people stay comfortable and entertained they will come back. A tough trainer who does not talk to you and goes right into a tough workout will be labeled as tyrannical and will be soon out of job. Unfortunately it is that tyrannical trainer who will get you results. In a good workout the resting time is for recovery and getting ready for next set, not for chatting. If you notice too much chatting between your sets then let your trainer know that you want to increase the intensity of the workout. > You are not sore the next day: A tough workout pushes your muscles to their limits. Your muscles should be sore the next few days after a tough workout. If you notice that you are not feeling sore after you workout sessions, then clearly your trainer is not pushing you as hard. Let him know that you do not feel sore the next day and want to increase the workout intensity > You did not see any benefit in the first month: If you are doing your workouts right, you should see benefit within the first few weeks. If you notice that you are not seeing any progress towards your fitness goals then let your trainer know about it. Many trainer might ask you to be patient and tell you take it is going to take time. This is a clear sign of a bad trainer. Now of course if you cannot lose 20 pounds in a month, however you should be able lose 4-5 pounds in a month if you are doing everything right. If you notice that you are not making any progress and your trainer says you need to be patient, then it might be a sign that your trainer is not pushing you as hard as he should be. Personal training is all about customer experience. A trainer has to make his client feel good about their workout then only the client will come back again and again. Time and again I see people leave everything on the trainer. Under the fear of scaring the client away the trainer does not push the client as hard and therefore the client does not get good results. In the end everybody loses. The client loses interest and the trainer loses client. Leaving everything on the trainer is not a good idea; you are the one who has to set the pace of the workout, not the trainer. Think of yourself as the boss and the trainer as your employee. Just as the employee will do whatever boss likes, the trainer will just do whatever you like. To get optimal results, make use of the trainer just as a guide under whose supervision you push yourselves as hard as you can. If you understand this you will be able to make a much better use of the trainer.
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