Monday, February 17, 2014

How Can Personal Training Help You Attain Your Fitness Goals

By Jerri Perry


Personal training is now much more accessible, with many more people than sports stars and media celebrities taking advantage of the services that they offer. A personal trainer, or PT, can provide tailored advice, and provide evaluations of a client's needs and goals. Using a PT can be a great way of taking a much more scientific and effective approach when it comes to health and fitness.

First, and perhaps most obviously, a PT can offer the kind of attention to detail and expert knowledge which is impossible for many people to match on their own. While many people are very well informed these days, when it comes to matters relating to health and fitness, no one can hope to be an expert, without some measure of professional qualification or training. Most people simply do not have the time, due to commitments to work and family, to study the subject to any great degree.

A PT does, though, and has spent a significant amount of their life examining such issues in detail, meaning that the advice they can offer is of high quality. A PT can spend time talking to you, before any training programmes begin, to accurately assess your needs and requirements. They can then begin to draw up plans to develop those areas of weakness in your fitness which need working on.

Achieving proper fitness is not simply a case of going into a gym and working out as hard as possible on the first piece of available equipment. In fact, adopting that kind of approach can negatively affect your progress in all sorts of ways. A PT can point a client towards the activities and types of exercise which are most beneficial in them meeting their eventual goals.

A PT, for example, who might be working in a town like Roseburg OR, may be asked by a client to work on core strength, a vital component of total fitness. The PT can tailor the training programme that they design to make sure that it includes plenty of core strength exercises, such as push-ups and the plank. The PT can also identify more specific areas of weakness in the client's core, and make sure that each work-out includes exercises to help remedy these weaknesses.

For some clients, the challenge may be to reduce their fat levels and become slimmer. In such a case, the PT will need to identify activities and exercises which can be done with a minimal risk of injury, and which will also maximise the calories burned. A focus on aerobic activities can sometimes lead to a risk of boredom too, and a PT can help maintain motivation levels.

A crucial part of a healthy lifestyle which a PT can offer advice on is diet and nutrition. It is impossible to become properly fit without refuelling in the right way. A PT provides clients with guidance as to the right things to eat and drink in order to meet their targets.

Anyone who is serious about becoming fitter should consider the option of personal training. As well as personally shaped fitness advice, a PT can also offer guidance on how to eat and drink healthily. A new level of fitness can be achieved with their help.




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