What Does a Personal Trainer Do?
Getting into fitness can be so dragging. With less motivation and less knowledge on what to do, you may end up getting your ass on the couch again watching your favourite series with a handful of chips and popcorn. However, there’s always a way to skip your bad habits and convert them into a more productive one —- and personal trainers are there to help you with your dilemma.
PTs or Personal Trainers are people who help you get through your fitness journey. They are there to provide you with one-on-one training, giving their best efforts and allotting their expertise for you only (of course within a certain schedule). As the fitness industry is rising each day, more and more people are aiming to become personal trainers; it makes anyone healthy, knowledgeable about how fitness should be, and it pays great as well.
Nonetheless, before you even opt to become one, you should know some basics first. Fitness trainers aren’t just your typical individual who coaches you. They are actually more than their surface. So… what do they do?
Provides Fitness Assessments
Personal Trainers don’t just give you exercises to do. As people have preferences and differences with their goals, they are there to evaluate you first, making sure that they give the best program for your body type. Hence, they come up with customized fitness programs for you, so they can create a tailored exercise that is in line with the result you want to achieve in the future. Nevertheless, they are also there to help you identify your health and fitness aspirations.
Acts as your guide
Assessment is just an initial part of being a personal trainer. With the service they provide, they will help you with what you need to do to achieve what you have in mind. If you are a newbie with exercising, it is to note that you don’t know the terms of exercising yet; you still have a blank space of how to properly execute your exercise and what you need to target for efficiency. Therefore, personal trainers provide you with one-on-one sessions, making sure that you are doing your exercise and targeting the best possible area when doing a specific movement. If your personal trainers fail in guiding you with what to do, you might end up with serious injuries… and you don’t want to be incapacitated for the rest of your life.
Dietary and Lifestyle Advice
Exercising is just a tiny component in transforming a better version of yourself. You also need to eat right and do what is right, daily. Thus, personal trainers give you advice on what you need to eat and what you should do every day, and they also monitor your food intake so they would know that you are eating right to get the best results out of your exercise. As nutritional and lifestyle advice is very important, personal trainers see to it that you will have the responsibility of taking care and ensuring the macros you take; it entails a positive pressure for you to be liable for your diet. And mind you, if you cheat with any intake, they will know. Being accountable for yourself is what they always push for.
Progress Monitoring
Assessments don’t come only at the start, PTs also monitor your progress as you go through your fitness program. Consequently, personal trainers monitor your growth week after week, making sure that you are improving, entailing a significant difference compared to when you are still starting. This also means that you will not do stagnant exercises; they may add more to what you do, and even give you additional weights if they deem necessary as well.
Keeps you Motivated
Hiring a personal trainer is a good way to motivate yourself. As they keep guiding you each day, you will always have the urge to do things consistently in line with the program your trainer gives to you. Moreover, as they monitor your exercise and food intake, they ensure that you are getting out of your comfort zone; the positive pressure, guidance, and positive feedback on assessment can help you keep motivated and aligned in achieving your fitness goals within the pace your trainer provides you.
Yet, before being able to assess and train clients on the field, personal trainers must have certifications to be legitimate personal fitness trainers. They must possess a Diploma of Fitness or an Exercise Science or Human Movement degree and should receive a Certificate IV in fitness. This will ensure the eligibility of your trainer to educate and guide you with what you should do to have the best results and guidance that you need for your fitness journey. Failing to be certified would mean inconsistent and incoherent programs; you might end up wasting your time, effort, and money for someone who does not know how to do his job. Now, who would even want that?
Aside from this, it is highly recommended to find a personal trainer that is registered with Fitness Australia (Australia’s peak health and fitness industry association) or Physical Activity Australia (fitness registration body). Both groups only accept professional individuals, so they can do the job with the utmost performance for their clients. Being a member of either association will signify that you personal trainers are competent, highly knowledgeable, and licensed to coach anyone. If not, you may have issues with your progress in the long run.
Being a personal trainer isn’t easy. It entails a lot of expertise and education to provide the clients with what they need to improve their lifestyles. Nevertheless, personal trainers are always there to help you with your goals. They seek to guide and educate you so that in the future, you can do things in your own right, and be independent to ameliorate yourself. Ergo, the profession must not be taken for granted, even more, they can be your friend as well; not only inside the gym but outside the gym too.
Maybe you’re still thinking about when to start training. But mind you, every day is a choice you make of yourself. So why not start today, right?
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