Thinking of looking for a personal trainer? Here are some tips to avoid frustrations and choose the best Personal Trainer, the one who can meet all your expectations.
We have already seen how to choose a good gym to start training, but sometimes there are people who choose to choose a personal trainer to help them achieve their goals.
Either inside a gym, in a club or personally, if our budget allows it, we can hire a physical trainer; whether it’s to lose fat, improve stamina, build muscle and strength, or feel healthier overall.
All sensible and achievable goals, right? But
- How do you know if you have contacted the right “Personal Trainer” to help you achieve one or more of these goals?
- Does he or she have a responsibility to look after your goals and interests?
- How do you know?
Here are some basic tips to know if you have hired the right person as a personal trainer.
What are the negative aspects in a personal trainer?
I would like to start first with the negative points that we can find in any type of coach.
In this way, it will be easier for you to discard the negative options that you may already know.
- Blindly follow popular training trends, which have little scientific endorsement behind them.
- He is dedicated to training alongside you.
- It doesn’t motivate you or make you push yourself.
- It does not document your training progress.
- Socialize with yourself excessively.
- It floods you with buzzwords in the Fitness industry.
- At the end of your workout, you feel like you haven’t burned a single calorie.
- You do not have a college or university degree in some type of fitness science or physical education. Or you have earned your certification through an online course.
How do you know if your personal trainer is good?
Let’s look at the positive points that we can find in a trustworthy Personal Trainer.
- He has been formally educated in exercise science.
- You have obtained your certification from a trusted organization.
- It accompanies you in your training, but does not train with you.
- Avoid chatting and focus on getting your training done to its fullest potential.
- It pushes you to your limit. Whatever your 100%, he or she brings out the best in you.
- Your progress in training is correctly recorded in some kind of document.
- It employs proven principles and practices related to fat loss, muscle building, increased cardiovascular endurance, or even healthy food intake.
- By the end of your workout, you have expended a good number of calories.
The ultimate test: the results
The way in which you are going to evaluate the magnitude of the results that you have achieved, or want to achieve, depends on several factors:
- YOUR PREVIOUS TRAINING EXPERIENCE: Beginning students will notice greater changes in their physique compared to those who have already been training for some time.
- NUTRITION INTAKE: Obviously, if you eat a poor diet, and especially if you consume excess calories, you are going to make it more difficult to meet any type of training goal.
- GENETICS: You can have a taller or shorter body, wide, narrow, naturally strong, naturally weak. In short, this is a point that you should know to assess the results obtained objectively, you can read a little more about the subject in our article on somatotypes. what kind of body do you have?
- RECOVERY: It is during the rest process that the body recovers, regenerates and moves to a new level. Therefore, you must allow yourself to enjoy a proper recovery and avoid overtraining.
With all this in mind, it is your personal trainer who should give you the appropriate exercise and guidelines to get on the path of successfully meeting your goals.
If you see that this is not happening it may be time to find a new coach or a new gym.