Whether you’re new to exercising or looking to take your current workout
regimen up a notch, working with a personal trainer can be a great way to
help you reach your fitness goals. Here are some benefits a personal trainer
can provide.
Motivation
For starters, working with a personal trainer provides you with additional
motivation to exercise.
We all know that belonging to a gym or health club and not using it is
a waste of money. But many people continue to pay for it, thinking that the monthly credit
card charge will eventually motivate them to begin going. That strategy is
often not successful. Not attending a personal training session that you’ve
already paid for, however, might be another story.
There’s a human aspect as well as a financial one. If you find a personal
trainer you like, you may not want to waste their time — or disappoint them
— by skipping a session. Having someone that will hold you accountable may
also make you
work out even harder
than you would if you were exercising alone.
Personalization
Whether you want to lose weight, gain strength, or just improve your general
fitness, a personal trainer can work with you to put together
an exercise routine
to help you meet your personal goals. They also can make sure the routine
takes into account your current state of fitness as well as any conditions
you may have, such as diabetes or high cholesterol.
More bang for your exercise buck
Being able to see the benefits of your workouts is another reason to work
with a personal trainer. They can help you choose both the types of
exercises and specific exercises that will best help you meet your goals. If
you’ve been exercising and feel as though you’re not making any progress
toward your goals, a personal trainer could help you start seeing results.
Personal trainers also know enough exercises that they can add
some variety
to your exercise sessions, even if all the sessions are attempting to
accomplish the same things. That will make your sessions more interesting,
which will make them more enjoyable.
Form and safety
Personal trainers can also help you with your exercise
form.
Whether you’re working out at a gym or virtually at home, a trainer can help
you do the exercises the way they’re supposed to be done. That ensures that
each exercise will work the muscle groups it’s supposed to, so you’ll get
the maximum benefits offered by your workout.
It also reduces the risk that you’ll hurt yourself by doing an exercise
improperly. That’s especially true if you are just starting to exercise;
resuming exercising for the first time in months or years; or exercising to
rehabilitate yourself after an injury.
A personal trainer also can structure the exercises in your routines, and
how often you work out, in a way that gives everything from specific muscle
groups to your entire body an adequate amount of recovery time.
The bottom line
Personal trainers can help boost your motivation to exercise and the
benefits you get from exercising. They also can make exercising more
enjoyable and safer. Even if you just want to brush up on your exercise form
before resuming working out by yourself, a personal trainer may be worth
considering.