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Training, Personally

Sometimes I have to hold myself back from writing about personal conversations involving weight loss on this blog.

But a conversation I had today with B (hope she's not reading this ;) ) has got me thinking, and I think it's a good conversation-starter between me and my buddies.

B told me that she had heard from a friend all the benefits of her personal trainer and has decided to enlist her own, personal, personal trainer. The personal trainer she plans to hire will give her two free sessions, with each additional session costing $35 per hour, IF she enlists a couple friends to sign up and workout with the trainer at the same time.

I, personally, have never had a personal trainer, although I did take some advice from my uncle, who is a physical therapist, and like to think that's almost like taking some advice from a personal trainer.

In my opinion, I would not want to pay (and boy oh boy, do they cost some $$$) for someone to tell me what is going to give me the best results, for a few reasons. One reason being, for that hour that I am with them, sure they might be giving me great advice. But after I leave them, and for the 5 nights a week we're not together, they aren't with me while I'm eating and sitting on the couch being lazy working out. If you don't commit yourself whole heartedly to losing weight, in addition to the services that they are providing you, then you're left paying $35 an hour to continue to be overweight.

Which brings me to my next point, if you are whole heartedly committed to your weight loss goals on the days when you are not meeting with your trainer, then why even bother having a trainer at all? If you're committed to doing the work then you're going to do it, trainer or not.

I interviewed another one of my friends, I'll call her A, about this subject. A is a fancy broad, and I would think would be very into having a PT. She did have some pretty good things to say about personal trainers.

"I think personal trainers are a great way to start a workout program," she said. "They listen to your needs and are able to design a specific workout for you. I feel after two or three meetings with them, you can pretty much take it from there yourself."

A also recommended having a personal trainer meet with you every couple of months to see how you're doing.

Me, I don't buy this advice. I think that I can look in the mirror every couple of months to see how I'm doing.

What do you think? Are personal trainers useful or useless>

posted @ Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:26 PM

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I think that if you have the $$$ do it! I've had the experience of losing weight both with and without a personal trainer. To me a good (emphasis there) personal trainer is worth it for a few of the following reasons: (1) almost always a trainer will push you harder and stretch more than you would yourself; (2) I think a trainer can select specifically certain exercises, reps, weights, etc specifically for you to get the best permanent results quicker - yes you can learn and figure it out on your own but there's like a million plus pieces of literature, know hows, programs and train of thoughts on losing weight and sculping yourself and most are good advice just different approaches which to me seems sometimes overwhelming and intimadating (3) and here's where everyone's thought process might be different but for me if I'm going to pay for such a service (which I did) I most definitely am going to follow the advice and also show up for the session. My experience was definitely a great one and yes I do agree that the down size is when you do break off you have to figure out how to continue on your own.

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