Personal Trainer? Do You REALLY Need One?
I am writing this on a Friday evening purely because I couldn’t wait. I had a personal training consultation today with a guy who started training with weights about 6 months ago for aesthetic reasons (he wanted to look better naked) but he hasn’t seen ANY difference after the first couple of weeks.
It hit me like a train…
That’s what EVERYONE says when they come in looking for personal training.
Well nearly everyone…
Here’s the TOP 5 reasons people get personal training in Dublin. Ill bet you fit into one of these categories. Here it goes :-)
1. They’ve never EVER been in a public gym and it intimidates them.
I completely understand this one. To be completely honest I trained myself and was personal training dozens of people from my shed for YEARS before I joined/ started working in a big public gym. When I started in the public gym I was wondering if people were looking at me. The weights were different so I couldn’t add them up properly etc. :-) I was intimidated too. Only a little though of course :-) And I was a trainer myself!
2. They have been a member of a public gym for the last 3+ years but make it to the gym maybe twice/ month because they’re lazy.
To tell the truth you’re not lazy, you’re NORMAL.
You see turning up to the gym when you haven’t got an appointment or a purpose to go is HARD. Hell, even I have to organise training with one of the other trainers in the ABS Gym or the ABS Conditioning Centre to keep myself motivated. Having an appointment with a trainer is almost impossible to sneak away from… we’re watching you! :-)
3. They have been jogging or just doing mind numbing cardio for the last 6 months in the gym and not only are they seeing no results. They are actually regressing and even going backwards. Getting fitter but PUTTING ON WEIGHT.
Cardio? Nah. Why do you need a trainer to press buttons on you tread mill or stairmaster and shout stupid slogans at you?
I don’t!
You shouldn’t! a REAL personal trainer will write up a conditioning programme using suitable weights and fat burning exercises so that you are never bored and constantly getting results and staying motivated. Not running on a treadmill like a hamster in a wheel.
4. They have been following a programme they were given in a Gym in Dublin and realized after a week or two that this was just a generic piece of nonsense that the fitness instructor gave them. Not a personalised programme. Can you blame the guy? They don’t get paid extra, they don’t have to get results, and they get paid the same either way.
On the other hand if a personal trainer doesn’t get results, he doesn’t get paid! Simple as that.
Our sole purpose in life is to get people the results they deserve. Think about that one…
5. They tried some other personal trainer/ fad/ gym that forces supplements on you the second you step through the door.
I’m not mentioning any names because that wouldn’t be cool :-) I will say that there are a lot of gimmicks out there. Celebrity diet, alli diet pill and certain gyms/personal trainers pushing supplements on you isn’t fair. Plain and simple. You don’t need that stuff. It DOESN’T help, it just makes them money to sell it to you.
Not cool at all.
Well there you have it. The top 5 reasons why people get personal training and my take on it…
Thanks for reading
Bryan Kavanagh BSc CSCS
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