Nearly every gym in the country now has personal trainers working in them. In most cases they do a reasonable job. They base their training programmes around goal setting, partner training and regular review points. All of which are important elements of effective Personal Training Programmes.
But here's what they get wrong.
The personal trainers in most large gyms base their programmes on a set formula and more to the point; their programmes are almost always based entirely around working out in the gym.
There is a big difference between basing a programme on principles and basing it around a formula. Yes, it is right to set goals and monitor change, but you are an individual, not an average.
What suits you will be different to what suits the next person.
No sport or activity can be trained for exclusively in a gym. Let alone accounting for the fact that people get bored too easily in the gym. They loose their interest and their motivation and simply give up.
Setting Personal Training Programmes requires a holistic approach that takes into account your lifestyle, your attitudes to training and competing, your eating habits, your past experiences and your future goals; as well as your current level of health and fitness.
Anyone who has looked at the nature of change will tell you that there is a fairly simple set of rules:
And then you:
Training to get fit is no different.
My programmes take all of this into account. I work with people who want to achieve specific and often very personal goals in their lives.
If you want to know exactly what I include in my programmes, take a look at what I do.
If you want to know why I think I can help you take a look at who I am.
Take a look at some of the case studies of the people I am working with to find out whether this all works.