There are many reasons why a personal trainer is essential to achieving your fitness goals.
Here are the top 7 reasons why I think having a personal trainer is very beneficial.
1. Determining an individual diet and training plan
Based on initial measurements and body flexibility testing, a trainer determines highly personalised monthly training program, as well as the nutrition plan. Then further that training and nutrition plan is being corrected all the time in accordance personalised progress of each client. Nutrition and training are closely related and it is almost impossible to achieve the goal while neglecting one of these two factors.
2. Education
Having adequate knowledge about training, anatomy, nutrition is a must for each personal trainer. The training and progress itself is much more complicated than one might think at the beginning. Further progress in performance and appearance requires a greater level of knowledge and experience and is generally the result of only highly educated and experienced trainers.
3. To take most out of you
It's not in human nature to over torture herself when you don't have to. We mistreat ourselves enough at work, and often at home, and then also in training... The coach knows how to make the entire process more enjoyable for you to achieve much better results with that unecessary "torture".
4. Sense of responsibility and obligation
What do self-trainers often think about? "Should I go straight from work to training or go home first to rest? Let me eat first, then I'll go. Oh, what a good movie, just let it end and I'm off to training. Actually I can do it tomorrow."
A personal trainer does not allow these things, and on the other hand, you have paid for that time and you do not have full freedom to change your workout appointment, especially not when "I am not in a good mood for a training" is the excuse.
5. Support and motivation
The coach knows the reasons why you started to train, knows how to recognize crises in training, days when you are not in a full mood for training, but can also provide adequate words of support, understanding and encouragement, so that you can continue on that path as easily as possible. To remind you where you were, where you are now, but more importantly - where you want to be.
6. Monitoring the results
Monitoring results based on BIA measurements and caliper measurements. On the one hand, the BIA method evaluates the structure of the body by emitting a low and safe dose of electricity through the human body, and on the other hand, measuring skin folds with a caliper helps achieve the most accurate results, while keeping records of training and achieved performances and results.
7. Overtraining
This refers to that group of people who have no problem with motivation for training, on the contrary - they put themselves in a situation where they do more harm than good by training. A coach knows how to recognize the first signs of overtraining, as well as how to react to prevent it, while continuing progress.
8. Diversity in training
Certainly one of the secrets of long-term and successful training. No matter how determined and persistent someone is, monotonous exercises and programs will not have a lasting effect. A coach, regardless of the goal of his trainee, should have several different ways to keep him highly motivated with a big variety of excercises.