Training advice for the Fit Pros

When you get a personal trainer, there needs to be an element of trust between you. You need to know that they are able to help you achieve the goals that you want to achieve and that they have the knowledge and the experience to enable you to reach these goals. Knowing that they might have been through the journey you are going through themselves and found ways to win and overcome the challenges you are experiencing too can be so important! Knowing that they are committed to educating themselves on the areas that you need them to know about is so important because more often than not personal trainers might not have been through what you are going through themselves but they should have gained the knowledge through theory or practice so that they can assist you in the best possible way. 

If they haven’t then there is certainly going to be an issue of trust between the two of you. To tell you the truth, most trainers don’t go into depth to understand client issues and research the challenges facing clients and this in fact makes them incredibly dangerous to work with so it is important that you understand your trainers credentials before you commit to working with them. Good professional trainers will be able to say what their experience is and if there are gaps in their knowledge, own up to it and make it clear where their experience/knowledge begins and ends. In the beginning you might find that there are very few trainers who have specific experience (for example training older clients), however, if you can tell that this trainer is committed to the pursuit of added experience and they are offering to train you with care and caution (as all trainers should) then often they can prove themselves to you as a client! 

You are in the driving seat of what you do and don’t accept from a trainer and you must ensure that you are clear with your expectations of them from the beginning. A good trainer will ensure that they ask you questions so that they are able to determine the goals that you are looking to obtain and they should be honest about the limitations of their knowledge and the really good trainers will go out of their way to research how to help you overcome the challenges that you face so that you get a program which is aimed specifically at you. They will not give you generic workout but ensure that you get what you ask for specifically from the training plan- built around the areas that you want to get strengthened and stabilised! Having a good experienced trainer can really help with this so try and find someone who will go out of their way to give you the most out of your training because this is after all why you would place you trust in them in the first place. 

Stay strong 

Alex O-King