So what actually is a personal trainer able to do for you? A lot of people do actually go see them because everyone else does, but what actually are the able to provide you that is different to just doing the workout yourself.

 

Since this is quite a big article I’ll be breaking this up into 2 or 3 pieces to ensure it is all covered completely.

Motivation

Probably the biggest facility the personal trainer has to offer their clients is motivation. Motivation or the lack of it for most clients is the biggest issue or problem when it comes to exercise.

 

For most people trying to start exercising, creating that habit of getting to the gym or just performing some exercise is the hardest step. For most newcomers, it is so easy to say:

“I’m too tired today; I’ll do a harder workout tomorrow”

“I don’t have time today, so I’ll make up for it tomorrow”

And then before you know it, your great new start is already finished and you usually stop training and exercising. Unfortunately this is one of the easiest things to happen, even to seasoned trainers.

 

This is where personal trainers have one of their biggest strengths, in giving you the ability to overcome this major hurdle.

 

So how do they manage to do this? Well one of easiest ways, is due to you paying for this service. If you’re paying for it, then you are more likely to turn up as most people do not want to lose money or waste it away by not having the training done. The other way is by how the personal trainer actually deals with you once you have arrived for your training session.

Excitement

Once you have arrived for your session, the trick most of the personal trainers will use to motivate you is excitement. Most people don’t actually think of exercising as exciting but boring and tiring, so this is why it is so easy to give up and make excuses not to go.

 

This is why if the trainer can make it exciting and get you to actually enjoy it, the process of getting into your exercise routine and maintaining it, is so much easier.  But how will or do they go about it. This one isn’t that easy to obtain as everyone is very different in the way the react to exercise depending on the personality.

 

For a vast majority of people the excitement can be from the personal trainer implementing very quick and obtainable goals for you, so that in the first week or two you have actually attained something that you may have thought was going to take you a long time to achieve. This quick and small goal setting is very easy to get people excited about and can be sustained for quite some time.

 

Another way is due to the personality of trainer themselves. If you have been around a lot of personal trainers you’ll find that they are extreme extroverts and use this ability to create an atmosphere around the client. This atmosphere is what creates the excitement around the client. This atmosphere is from the personal trainer making everything exciting and challenging and making you feel important, which is fantastic for you own ego and self confidence. This makes you feel better about yourself not just physically from the exercise but from the emotional feeling it also creates.

 

If you’ve seen personal trainers in action who don’t provide this personal atmosphere, that the clients usually look very uninterested and bored and you’ll find over time that they will lose those clients.

Summary

So as you can see motivation is a key component for the personal trainer and for yourself and without this being given to you, you will struggle to make a new exercise routine work.

 

Our story will continue in our next article where we talk about routines and how this is another part to the process for personal trainers.