Personal Training

Who doesn't want to look and feel better? Would you like to perform at higher levels with extra energy? Would you like to be healthier and more confident? Would you like to enjoy a better quality of life? Perhaps reduce chronic pain? Whether you want to lose some weight, tone up, gain muscle mass, improve general health or just improve your athletic abilities a Personal Trainer can help you achieve these goals.

Over the years, the technology advancements have enriched our daily lives in ways, those generations before us could only dream about. Simple every day activities can be completed with greater efficiency and ease. However, with this technology everyday movements have been greatly reduced or replaced all together. We as humans have become very sedentary. The decline in physical activities has increased body dysfunctions, chronic diseases and obesity. About a third of adults in the U.S. are considered to be obese. 16% of the teenage populations are already at the obese levels.

Years ago, fitness training was considered to be a luxury. Seeing a Personal Trainer was something you might choose to do if you had tons of extra money and extra time you didn’t know how to fill. Those days are long gone and fitness training has moved towards a necessity. The rewards of hiring a Personal Trainer definitely out weigh the costs. With the current debates about the Health Care in America, prevention and over all fitness of the individual plays an important role in these discussions.

What to expect from your Personal Trainer:
When you first meet with your Personal Trainer, you will be given a fitness assessment. This fitness assessment will give the Personal Trainer a great starting point to get you started with fulfilling your health and fitness goals. It also allows the Personal Trainer to gain valuable insight into your past, present and your future.


First part of the assessment there will be a questionnaire:

• > General history
• > Medical history
  > Occupation
  > Hobbies
  > Lifestyle
  > Recreation
  > Any past injuries or surgeries
  > Taking any medications
  > What are your current health and fitness goals
  > What are your long-term goals?
  

Next your Personal Trainer will need to gather some objective information with some forms of "measurable" data. The objective data will include:

• > Your resting heart rate
  > Weight
  > Body fat-ratio measurements
  > Circumference measurements
  

This information can then be used to compare beginning numbers with those numbers measured weeks, months or years later. This might be the hardest part about the assessment. I completely understand that sometimes seeing these numbers can be a little depressing. However, it is really important to know where you started and just how far you have come in your success.

The final part of your fitness assessment your Personal Trainer will be checking your posture and looking at your overall movements. Every movement needs a base from which to generate and accept force. This starts with a proper posture. Think about building a house. Before you start putting up the walls, you want to make sure you have a solid and strong base. With these posture observations, your Personal Trainer will be able to spot any distortions and catch and correct any potential overactive and underactive muscles.

Once you have completed your fitness assessment, your Personal Trainer can then focus your work outs on achieving your health and fitness goals. Your work outs will be individually programmed with you in mind. Your overall fitness level and personal goals will be incorporated specifically into your work out program. Whether this is your first time seeing a trainer or whether you are looking to improve your athletic abilities, a systematic and progressive program will be tailored to meet your needs.

Your Personal Trainer will be using an integrated training method. This is a concept that includes all forms of training in an integrated fashion as part of a progressive system. Forms of training will include all of the following:

• > Flexibility training
  > Cardio Respiratory training
  > Core training
  > Balance training
  > Reactive training
  > Speed
  > Agility
  > Quickness training
  > Resistance training.
  

Whether your health and fitness goals are to lose weight, gain muscle mass, tone up, improve general health or just improve your athletic abilities your work outs will be tailored to help you succeed with these goals. Your Personal Trainer will guide you through all the various options and training variables, your work outs will never be boring. Because your work outs will never be boring, you will be more likely to stick with the program and therefore succeed in achieving your health and fitness goals.

Going to the gym alone and trying to accomplish your health and fitness goals by yourself can be overwhelming at times. Seeking the help of a Personal Trainer is going to take away the fear of accomplishing your goals alone. More importantly your Personal Trainer is going to hold you liable for your actions. There will be no more excuses!

There is no time like the present. Do not wait and put this off until next month or even next year. Haven't you waited long enough? You deserve to be fit. You deserve to be healthy. And most of all, you deserve to be happy!