PERSONAL TRAINING

Personal training is a service provided by fitness professionals to help clients reach their fitness goals. Clients hire trainers for their knowledge and experience, and trainers usually provide one-on-one training on a short-term or long-term basis at locations including the trainer's business, gyms, community centers, and clients' homes.

The purpose of personal training is to help a client achieve their personal goals. Our clients include children and adults trying to lose weight, people seeking instruction in strength training or muscle toning, and older adults who want to improve their athletic skills.

Our trainers may give a session on instruction in how to use exercise equipment. This helps our clients use the equipment correctly and gain the most benefit from it. Our clients may also hire a trainer to provide this service in their homes.

The training service starts when the trainer designs a personalized program for our client or updates an existing program. The trainer develops the program and then supervises our clients progress toward the goal. In addition to providing fitness knowledge, the trainer evaluates progress, and motivates our clients to continue with the fitness plan. The trainer also updates the plan as our clients advance towards their goals.

Personal trainers work with all people, with clients ranging from young children to the elderly. Weight loss is often a goal, especially for children. According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 17% of children between the ages of 2 and 19 are obese.

Contributing to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity is the lack of physical education programs in schools. Physical activity for children may be limited to those who play sports. As a result, some parents hire  our personal trainers to help their children lose weight.

Weight loss may also be the goal of adults who use our personal trainers. In addition, our trainers help children and adults update a workout routine, learn or train for a sport, learn an activity such as weight training, prepare for an event like a triathlon or ski trip.

Furthermore, some of our trainers help older adults get into shape and stay fit as they age. Services for the aging population include weight-loss programs, weight training, and athletic training. Our trainer could also help elderly clients maintain balance and coordination. This training helps to prevent falls and keep clients independent, allowing them to live in their homes.

Our trainers may also work with people receiving surgery and those diagnosed with conditions such as diabetes and osteoporosis.

Our personal trainer usually works with a client on a one-on-one basis, with training done in the clients' home or another location. 

Establishing a plan

The issues to be decided include how often the client and trainer will meet. For some clients, meeting several times a week helps them meet fitness goals. Other clients may want periodic meetings where our trainer evaluates their progress through measures such as fitness testing.

The training process usually starts with an initial consultation and assessment. This meeting for someone starting an exercise program could include tests to assess fitness in areas such as body-fat percentage, cardiorespiratory (aerobic) fitness, muscular strength, flexibility, posture, and balance.

The fitness evaluation will serve as the baseline for the program that our trainer creates. The personalized exercise program is based on the assessment and the client goals. The plan is structured around the FITT principle of training: frequency, intensity, type, and time.

FITT. Frequency is the number of times per week that an exercise is done. The ACSM recommends that healthy people do at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity five days per week. During this aerobic activity, the person exercises enough to sweat but is able to talk to others. The ACSM recommendation for strength training is to do these resistance exercises at least two days per week. The workout should include from 8–12 repetitions of 10 exercises that target all of the major muscle groups.

Training sessions

During the sessions, our trainer will supervise exercises and provide motivational coaching. Our trainer could also relay information about the fitness topics such as the fundamentals of aerobic training and the safe use of equipment. Our trainer will also advise the client about when to proceed to the next level of the fitness plan. At that time, our trainer will give additional instruction as needed.

Our qualified trainer will help a client define and reach fitness goals. Our trainer provides knowledge and also motivates the client to implement goals that lead to a healthier life, and life choices because the client will be aware of the importance of physical fitness & health.