subject: Being An Excellent Personal Trainer [print this page] Personal Training - sounds cool but what's involved?
What is Personal Training?
Let me answer the question by asking you two questions.........
1. How hard do you push yourself when you exercise?
2. How good is your technique?
Even if you think you are good at training, whether it be in a gym or outside, you could always do better, with better technique if you had someone with you. That person could encourage you to train more effectively using better technique that will get you better results. That is Personal Training!
A Personal Trainer is an educator, motivator, mentor, evaluator and assessor.
Personal Trainers can make life overly complicated for clients, especially in the beginning of the relationship'.
Imagine yourself as a new personal training client who has been asked to:
1. Complete a weekly food diary with mood icons
2. Think about all your goals
3. Prioritise your goals
4. Think about why those goals are important
5. What do you like do to in your spare time
6. Why do you smoke
7. Do you prefer mornings or afternoons
8. How would you feel if you didn't achieve you goals
9. What type of exercise do you like or dislike
10. What barriers will try to stop you achieving your goals.... and so on
All these questions are valid, but asking too many in one sitting can put some clients off. Spend the first consultation getting to know them more as person rather than someone to be fixed' and you'll find that you'll establish trust and rapport is built faster.
Copyright Simon Bubb 2010
by: BeFit
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