I don’t know whether you’ve ever been with a personal trainer before, whether you’re with one now, whether you’re thinking about getting with one…it doesn’t make much difference.
I’d like to talk to you a bit today to try and convince you that you’ll be better off training yourself than relying on and going to a personal trainer.
What I’m going to do is talk about the downsides of using a personal trainer versus just training yourself. I’ve listed these in order to provide you with some things to consider before going to a personal trainer. In this economy it’s essential that you adequately analyze every financial output you make, so I want to present you with some downsides of a personal trainer, so that you can maybe decide to save yourself a couple bucks.
So, obviously benefit #1 of training yourself is that it’s free. You don’t have to worry about paying their steep fee just to go to the gym for an hour and have them write you up a work out. Having worked with personal trainers in the past, and having gone through classes to become one in college, I can tell you that anything they teach in a school is information you can easily find for free on the internet. Google is a wonderful thing, my friends, and learning to use it can save you a lot of money, especially when it comes to fitness.
I don’t know if you know this, but to become a personal trainer, or to get your license rather, you basically just pay $100 – $300 to take a test, if you pass the test you get your license. You can take the test as many times as you like until you get your license.
Benefit #2 is that you have more freedom in your training. You’re free to take time to explore different options in a work out. You can change up your training as frequently as you want, you can find new exercises, you can do anything. Personal trainer’s as a general rule have sort of a template that they use on all their clients. Do you think that they go home at night and try and think of new and innovative exercises to help improve your training? No, of course they don’t.
Benefit #3 is going to be that you can often make MORE progress on your own. If you can learn the basics of lifting, which like I said earlier is really not that difficult to do, then you will actually end up pushing yourself harder than a trainer would during your work outs. I have yet to see a trainer, at least in a commercial gym, that actually pushes their clients to their limits. Generally at the first sign of slight perspiration it’s time to back off and get a drink. I guarantee if you start training yourself you’ll work harder, faster, and you’ll get more fit in less time.
I hope that I’ve sort of opened your eyes up to the potential you have to save yourself by training yourself instead of using a personal trainer.
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