7 Day Fitness Blog

Having been a home trainer for me years and years I can say that I have met some very smart home trainers, and some are not even sure how they got certified. Most people seem to trust their home trainer to 100% when it comes to advice on how to get in shape, but is not the only information source as good as the next?

Some home trainers may have a master's degree in home workouts physiology and other may have no formal background in the gym. While a degree is one thing, the ability to get results is another.

Home trainers are also in the training business, making it an incentive to keep people around month after month. So here are some things you may not be getting from their home trainer .... But I think you need to know.

85% of results comes from what you eat - I can not stress how huge it is. If weight loss or muscle gain, diet and what you eat is a major part of the equation. I do not care how advanced and special training is, if your nutrition sucks then most likely get poor results. This is not to downplay the development of any, as is also key to help stimulate muscle growth and keep your metabolism strong in the process. However, a simple workout with enough resistance / volume 3x/wk and scored on nutrition will give phenomenal results. Too many just training to use that as an excuse to do difficult things, like eating right the rest of the time.

Its base is not the big problem - drives me crazy to see the home trainers in the gym doing all these home workouts, balance wobble boards, Bosu balls and other pieces of equipment ridiculous. While you can use as a secondary piece of equipment to work on something specific, making it the focus of training is useless. Using weight resistance / cables / strips or make moves heavyweight compound is where 99% of people need to stay and focus. I have trained people safely and effectively from all walks of life and ages in this way. It is unfortunate that many home trainers are being deceived in all this extra nonsense, since the equipment industry is that the promotion of lifelong learning (because they want to sell things better balance dumb). If you want a strong core, lifting above your head and keep it up there .... But looking at the gym seems that people have too much basic anyway just go focus on the domain of whole body movements and diet.

Abs are made in the kitchen - again another thing that drives me crazy to see the home trainers to make only "ab" workout for 30 minutes. Really? Unless you have already started and want to improve the definition in the abdominal muscles, again do not need this as a focus of your training. Do some home workouts at the end and sufficient stimulus, but without the right approach in the diet / nutrition you will never see your abs in the first place. We all have a six pack, we just get rid of the fat that covers it up.

Do not use 90% of the equipment in the gym - If a home trainer is taking you from one machine to spending time and not in the free weight and compound movements, go find another trainer. The machines are there to entertain people who do not know how to home workouts without the guidance of a home trainer. The machines are a way of steady work in a muscle while not the most ideal way for an efficient workout time ... not to mention how your body can not function in isolation in real life! If you are paying someone to teach you something, it better be something more than machines IMO.

If you are not getting results in 30 days, to hire another home trainer - Remember you are paying for results. Consider a home trainer as part of his company called You Inc. If the employee is not doing its job, why keep them around? Fire your home trainer and go find another if necessary. Heck find a new home trainer every month and see what each has to offer. All in all we do not need a month to month, home trainer (unless you really need that motivation and that kind of money to spend freely). You can check back with them to see what kind of progress they are making and change things if necessary, but do not really need each month to tell you only representatives? I have seen some home trainers who make their living in long-term customers it without reaching any result .... These are not the home trainers who want to keep. I'd also say that sign-up/pay in advance (and pay for a year in advance) for long-term contracts, go month to month and the basis of its decision to renew on whether or not getting results . I have seen many people lose money when studies / gym closed recently completed or home trainers out.

You do not need training sessions 1 hour - If the home trainer can not challenge or push your muscles enough in 30 minutes, you may be paying your company rather than expertise. While there are some types of training involving heavy weights and longer rest periods, which some may choose to do, so that the average customer of personal training is not the case. You can warm-up on your own, you can do your cardio workout later in the film on their own ... not pay someone to sit there and talk to you.

In many cases you need a spare weekend and + $ 400 to become a "professional" Trainer - Heck Internet today is probably more like $ 200 and a day at a computer. I'm not saying there are no good home trainers to get certified there, but you must know this. Do not allow the certification of misleading to think they are all experts out there.

The big clubs have high turnover and home trainers pay very little - So while you can go to a big club in the chain of health, you can also get a home trainer who is happy making $ 15/hr. Just remember that most all of the best home trainers I know are independent, own their own studios or work out of small clubs to pay your rent own ... not working in gyms popularity of the brand. I will not even go into all the horror stories of people also pay in advance for one year, only to have their home trainers keep out again and again ... and they lose out on money (this goes hand in hand with the recommendation not to pay upfront for long-term contracts)!

Today it seems that home trainers are educated more on how to sell - like any good business, a gym wants to make money. As your sales training (as trainers) to go buy 6 large contracts in advance .... 12th And then (the gym), I could not care less if you show up for them. There are also plenty of vendors out there telling fitness trainers how to sell, how to trick you and how to do a lot of money. Now there is nothing wrong with running a business, make money and offer a valuable product. Just do not be pushed / tricked into anything long term ... .. like you're paying for results, so make sure your home trainer knows what they are doing before you decide to stay with them for long. Any good home trainer is likely to even tell which is the best course of action. Do not fall for any online sales of "well-paid for 6 months in advance will keep you motivated" .... Since it is BS .... Month after month outcome is the best motivation and good home trainers know.

and now (drum roll please) to end, I give the 10 warning signs when you need to fire your personal trainer (and find a new one).

Change their routines until it does not allow any progress to weight bearing home workouts (or can not remember what the weight is used for all home workoutss)
His home trainer likes to use a lot of "toys" that he / she bought the latest and greatest piece of equipment .... And there is a new toy every month (shows where they are receiving their education from catalogs ....!)

His home trainer that starts with abdominal home workoutss before using free weights (nothing to do with the weakening of the main stabilizing cord before entering the compound movements, an injury can be said?)

You home trainer responds to their cell phones during the session
His trainer read fitness magazines, education (fitness magazines are marketed to people who do not know how to get real results, if the home trainer is one of them .... then run away)

His home trainer does not give any direction or resources on how you should eat (where most results are from all remember?)
Your home trainer will remain with the machine insulation (if there is no focus on the campus of the whole body movements are not receiving the education they need about a good home workouts)

You spend more time talking with him / her to work out (if you have enough time to talk for a few minutes between sets and not go for a maximum lift, which are not working hard enough ... or just killing time to make he / to justify the hourly rate)
You can not get a good workout done in 30 minutes (too much chatting going on? Or is his trainer killing time with useless things to bill your most?)

and finally .... my personal favorite recent sign .... Home trainer has a biography in the gym who says he has 15 years of "weight training" experience .... and is 25. (Seriously true story ... .. I nearly fell when I realized that a person .... Wow .... Or as he said in reply: "Well I've played with a calculator since I was 5, but You do not see me tell me "I was an accountant of 30 years")

So to leave on a positive note, remember the following:

Finding a home trainer who will explain what you are doing and why, so that someday you can do this on your own
Finding a home trainer who makes his realistic training for their lifestyle, such as for 30-40min 3x/week ... 5x/wk not for 1 hour (not many will remain)
Get out there and how to eat, because that is where most of all your results come from!