Personal Training is a service sought out to refine health and fitness. Popular interests in acquiring personal training services include losing weight, gaining lean muscle, and becoming stronger. Creating solutions in developing a fitness program that supports life time fitness goals and avoids injuries is a common reason to reach out for personal training. Maintaining physical strength and mental acuity while adhering to an exercise program is critical to living happily and healthy. Additionally, individuals struggle with regular exercise due to failed attempts leading to injury, boredom, or falling back into old habits leading to suboptimal physical activity. The services of personal trainers and other fitness professionals help create solutions to these issues. However, it’s important to be aware of important components in your personal training outreach to ensure you are entering a safe and efficient time investment.
The benefits of exercise into our lives is well known. However, we hear that people simply don’t have time for exercise. The reasons can span anywhere from family commitments, finding daycare for the kids, or just being bogged down by too many work hours. This makes the benefits of a regular exercise program obsolete and leads to the deleterious effects of decreased physical activity. Acquiring the guidance of a personal trainer helps to remedy this issue because appointments will be made specifically for the participant to attend at a designated time frame. Nothing else can interfere with this appointment because both the personal trainer and the participant have carved out a portion of the day to devote to each other in this unique coaching dynamic. This means all work obligations, cell phones, grocery store trips and other attachments have now been set under the priority of this hour of one-on-one time of exercise instruction devoted to you. Furthermore, most personal trainers, along with small group fitness classes, require that you pay before the training session. If you miss this session, you still must pay for the time you agreed to devote to yourself. This shouldn’t be a financial accountability test. However, utilizing positive reinforcement of being accountable for your motives of seeking out personal training will further support your life time fitness goals. During these training sessions, you have someone to report your health and fitness progress that is dedicated to your success. Furthermore, setting this time aside can also serve as an advanced form of meditation in which your efforts are focused solely on the proper execution of each exercise technique to support a successful exercise session. Our personal training clients in Napa know that they are expected to show up to each training session ready to go and strive for this success. Various other services such as small group fitness classes, boot camps, or Yoga classes expect the same thing from each participating member of their program. Having an accountable fitness professional to report to is a very useful tool to ensure that you are dedicated to your specific health and fitness goals.
A discouraging factor when contemplating the start of an exercise program is the possibility of injury from exercising incorrectly. Unfortunately, injuries from joining a gym and exercising ineffectively can leave participants injured for a few weeks and even years at a time. This should never be the case because local health clubs are a place to improve mental, physical and emotional health. Most gyms have personal trainers on staff that usually offer a training session free of cost. These complimentary training sessions are meant to answer any questions to clarify the proper use of the training equipment around the gym. Personal trainers can also clarify what a good muscular engagement is and what pain feels like when exercising. In addition, personal trainers will be able to tell you what exercises need to be performed initially before other exercises. For example, we always teach our personal training clients that work with us at Napa Tenacious Fitness to perform more technical exercises first and finish with less advanced exercises to focus on a safe and effective conclusion to the workout.
Personal trainers, fitness class instructors and other fitness professionals are here to help. They are passionate individuals who have embraced success within life by prioritizing health and fitness. It’s important to seek out a qualified, educated and experienced professional. Before signing up for the services of a fitness professional, it’s highly recommended to screen the potential coach.
What housing organization are these trainers certified through?
Do they have a college degree in a biological science?
How long have they been a trainer?
Perhaps you can perform a Google search on your potential exercise leader to ensure they are an upstanding person in society.
Utilizing the services of a personal trainer will effectively promote exercise adherence. A strong team chemistry between participant and a personal trainer has the potential to build a positive team dynamic to promote successful life time fitness goals.
Sean McCawley, the founder and owner of Napa Tenacious Fitness in Napa, CA, welcomes questions and comments. Reach him at 707-287-2727, napatenacious@gmail.com or visit the website napatenaciousfitness.com.
