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Finding The Right Personal Trainer for You

By Eric Bonilla

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Published: 29May2010
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Finding the right personal trainer that will help you attain the results you crave is a little like finding a date. Every personal trainer has his or her own style, personality and preferences for how they train clients. Personal trainers offer varying types and levels of services. It's important that you know yourself, your expectations and your goals before entering into any personal training relationship.

Where you are on your fitness journey will determine what kind of personal training you seek. If you are a beginner, you want a personal trainer with a non-intimidating demeanor who can teach you the basics of physical fitness and nutrition throughout the course of several personal training sessions. If you are severely overweight, your personal trainer should have experience with weight-loss programs.

If you are in a workout rut, you want an energetic personal trainer full of new ideas and fresh research. Even if you have been exercising regularly for years, or even if you have been personal trained before, when you hit a plateau you need someone with new eyes to take you in different directions. A personal trainer with a boot camp approach will mix things up for your muscles, challenging you with agility training, ropes, chains, ladders, and interval drills.

Body builders are born when weight lifters fall in love on the weight floor and decide to move their personal training into an alternate dimension of fitness. Personal trainers that work with body builders fall into a category of their own. Many of them have participated in competitions and will be able to share their personal experiences and technique. Personal training for a competition requires a trainer who understands a wide variety of bulking and toning regimes as well as eating for mass and definition prior to shows.

Gender also plays a huge role in choosing a personal trainer. Because of the close, physical proximity required for personal training, women often feel more comfortable working with female personal trainers. Stronger weight lifters will often prefer large, strong male trainers for spotting and safety. Because feeling comfortable with your personal trainer is the key to successful personal training, you need to explore and accommodate your gender preferences and express them in a polite, non-degrading manner.

Many personal training clients simply want a coach, someone to run alongside them, cheer them on and offer helpful tips when necessary. Coaching is an older style of personal training that is becoming popular again. Some personal trainers yell their encouragement, others use laughter and jokes, and still others have a quiet, engaging aura that clients find very motivating. Every personal trainer is different, and every client is different. When a good match happens, it's a marriage made in heaven

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