Personal Trainer 7 Reasons to Hire a Personal Trainer

Personal Trainer

There are a number of reasons people work with trainers. Some want an individualized program so they can lose weight or get in shape while others simply need to be held accountable for their workouts. Wherever you are on your exercise journey, a personal trainer may be just what you need to finally reach your fitness and weight loss goals. See if these 7 reasons to get a personal trainer strike a chord with you.

1. You’re Not Seeing Results

If you’ve been exercising consistently for several weeks or months and aren’t losing weight or reaching your goals, hiring a trainer may be a good choice.

Here are just some of the things a good trainer can do:

• Look at your current program to search for ways to change or tweak your workouts to make them more efficient and effective.
• Push you a little harder: Often people don’t see results because they’re not working as hard as they could. It’s easy to slack off when you’re by yourself, but having someone there to challenge you may make a difference in the scale.
• Examine your goals: He or she can also help you figure out if your goals are realistic.
• Help you stay motivated to exercise: Knowing you have an appointment with a pro can help you stay on track during the week.
• Teach you how to lift weights and do other exercises: Too often people focus on cardio to lose weight, but you need strength training and core training as well. These are things a trainer can teach you how to do the right way.

2. You Don’t Know Where to Start

If you’re new to exercise, you realize how complex it is and we’re not born with the knowledge of how to do it. When facing the task of

setting up a complete exercise schedule, you may feel so overwhelmed you don’t do anything.

If you have no idea what you’re doing, a trainer can help you:

• Figure out the right activities for you: Maybe you don’t even know what would work for your body, schedule or available equipment. A trainer may be able to suggest activities that fit with all of those areas.

• Help you put together a reasonable program: A trainer can help guide you in exactly how to start and how much exercise you can handle at first.
• Help you with your schedule: A trainer can sit down and help you go through your calendar. And figure out when you can work out and what you’ll do on those days you’re not working with a trainer.

3. You’re Bored With the Same Old Workouts

If you’re an experienced exerciser, maybe you haven’t considered working with a personal trainer. However, it can be a great choice if you need some variety in your workouts.

Here’s what a trainer can do for you:

• Bring a fresh perspective to your workouts: A trainer is coming at this with an objective eye and may see some things about your program or workouts right away that can make them more interesting and fun.
• Bring new ideas to the table.
• Help you discover new equipment.
• Help you set new and more challenging goals.

4. You Want to Learn How to Exercise on Your Own.

Even if your goal is to create your own workouts and exercise by yourself. Hiring a trainer for a few sessions can be a great benefit for learning the right way to exercise. This is especially true if you’re new to strength training and need to practice the exercises.

In this case, here are just a few things a trainer can do for you:

• Teach you about the muscles in your body and how they work: This is essential if you’re going to be working out at home or at the gym on your own.
• Show your exercises that target those muscles: This knowledge is gold, especially for the home exerciser. Knowing a variety of exercises allows you to create your own workouts when you’re ready for a change.
• Teach you how to lift weights: How often to lift weights and how to choose your weights, sets, and reps. He or she may be able to create a variety of workouts for you to continue doing when you’re ready to go out on your own.
• Show you good form: To get the most out of your workouts and avoid injury. You need to do each exercise in a certain way. A trainer can offer cues to help you get your body into the right position so you’re doing the moves correctly.

5. You Need Accountability and Motivation.

Motivation comes from all kinds of places, both internally and externally. You may have some intrinsic reason to exercise, such as wanting to be healthier or to get off your high blood pressure medication.

But, you also need extrinsic motivators to keep exercising such as wanting to lose weight to look better in a particular dress or for some particular day. A personal trainer can become that motivator.

By hiring a trainer you’re creating motivation in a variety of ways such as.

• Financially: You’re investing money into reaching your goal, so just showing up for your sessions so you don’t lose that money may be enough to keep you going.
• With your time: You’re not just investing money, you’re investing your time as well, a precious resource we all want to protect. That may add to your motivation to exercise.

6. You Have a Specific Illness or Injury.

If you have some specific injury or condition, your doctor may want you to exercise. But how do you do that if you’re in pain or have to work around an injury?

That’s where an experienced trainer comes in. Just some things your trainer may be able to help you with.

• Exercising with arthritis
• Exercise with heart disease
• Exercising with diabetes
• Dealing with old or chronic injuries
• Helping overcome back or neck pain
• Helping you come up with a plan if you’re pregnant or ​want to become pregnant.

7. You Want Supervision and Support During Workouts.

Some people know how to exercise and they even know how to do the exercises correctly, but they like having a trainer around for support and supervision.

A trainer can be good in this situation.

• Being a spotter: If you’re lifting very heavyweights, a trainer can help keep you safe and can help you rack your weights as well.
• Keeping you in line: If you know you tend to slack on your own, a trainer automatically makes you work harder just because you know he or she is right there watching.
• Being a kind of workout buddy: You may want something more than just someone telling you what to do. Maybe someone who will not only guide you through workouts but do things with you so you’re not exercising on your own.