If you’re struggling to meet your sporting or fitness goals, then you might be thinking about hiring a personal trainer to help you. If you’re not sure what a personal trainer can do for you, then here’s what you need to think about.
1. You’ll need to think about why you’re looking for a personal trainer. Perhaps you’re struggling to find time to go to the gym, or want to know more about the exercises you’re doing and the fitness programme that you’re on.
2. Your aims are also important. Perhaps you want to lose weight, be more active, get fit, or train for a specific sport. Maybe you’ve entered a charity race and want to make sure that you can finish it. Or perhaps you just want to be able to keep up with your children.
3. If you’re looking for a personal trainer to help you with weight loss, then you’ll need to know that as well as exercise, you’ll need to make changes to your diet too. Perhaps you’re already eating healthily, and want help to lose those final few pounds, or want to know how you keep the weight off with regular exercise.
4. If you want to improve you’re sporting ability, then you’ll want a personal trainer who is experienced in sports. Perhaps you want to run faster, last 90 minutes on the football pitch, be more flexible, or improve your strength for martial arts, or rugby. Why not see what a personal trainer can do for you?
5. You might be coming back from an illness, medical condition or operation, and need a period of rehabilitation involving gentle exercise. A personal trainer will help to make sure that you’re following the exercise programme right, and are not over stretching yourself, and that you are performing each exercise properly so as not to damage your muscles.
6. If you find that you’re lacking motivation, then a personal trainer can help. You might look for any excuse not to go for a run, or to go the gym or to go swimming, and then wonder why you haven’t lost weight, or your sporting ability hasn’t changed. By sticking to a schedule, you and your personal trainer can ensure that you stay focussed.
7. You’ll want to set goals so that you can measure your improvement. Perhaps you want to reach a certain weight, have certain measurements, or be able to lift a certain weight. Your personal trainer will be able to ensure that your goals are achievable, and this will help you to stay motivated, and keep you on track.
8. As well as helping you with your exercises, your trainer will be able to answer any of your health or training questions. You might want to know more about muscle groups, or when best to eat, or whether supplements would be beneficial to you.
9. Exercise might only be part of the route you take to reach your goals. Your diet is likely to play an important role too. You might need to eat less, and healthier, or you might be advised to eat more in order to gain weight, and put on muscle.
10. You might also want to make lifestyle changes, based on the advice of your personal trainer. Perhaps you eat in front of the TV, or eat a lot of takeaway food, or ready meals. You might be advised to get more fresh air and walk more, or to take up a new sport of hobby.
Now you know more about what a personal can do for you, isn’t it time for you to take your exercise seriously, and reach your goals?
Why not see how a Total Fitness Personal Trainer could help you with Weight Loss, improve your sporting performance, and changing your lifestyle? With fully equipped gyms all over the North of England, you’ll be able to get the personal service you need in order to meet your health and fitness goals. Join online today, at TotalFitness.co.uk today and see how a Personal Trainer will help you.
