Why You Should Get A Personal Trainer!

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Table of Contents

• Must Read Article💡

• Parker’s Breakdown: Personal Trainers 🔑

• The Study 📖

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Must Read Article💡

7 Ways a Personal Trainer Will Elevate Your Progress

If you are a beginner to intermediate when it comes to weight training and nutrition, getting a personal trainer is a cheat code. It is an investment that is well worth it.

In this article by Ironla.com, they speak on some of the reasons you should consider getting a personal trainer. Here are a couple of the main points 👇👇

• Keeping accountability

• Strategic program building

• Keeping nutrition as easy as possible for you

• They are a needed outside perspective

Parker’s Breakdown: Personal Trainers 🔑

In my 8+ years of weight training and nutrition, I have spent a majority of that time testing things, failing, making mistakes, and achieving very slow progress.

If I just had someone to correct my nutrition mistakes, fix my exercise routines that had way too much volume, and teach me that I don’t have to do hours of cardio everyday to lose weight, it would have helped tremendously.

If you are a beginner to intermediate in exercise and nutrition, I highly recommend investing. Here is why:

• They can speed your progress up by giving you access to their years of knowledge and experience, saving you years of mistakes and learning.

• Staying disciplined in the first couple months to a year of working out is extremely difficult. A trainer will keep you accountable.

• They make sure you get to your goal. In my first couple of years, I would be trying to put on some muscle and actually be losing weight. Or I would be trying to cut and actually be just gaining fat and weight. With a trainer, they track your progress and make sure you are staying in the right direction.

• Trainers make exercise and nutrition as easy as possible for you. Exercise and nutrition can be extremely overwhelming because there is just so much information. This overwhelming feeling can lead to lack of motivation, which can lead to you quitting. A trainer keeps it as simple as possible for you and makes all the information easier to digest and provides someone to go to with questions.

So how do you know the trainer you are getting is a good one? Here are a couple of tips that I would look for:

• Not Fat - Would you take financial advice from a homeless man? No, so why would you take fitness advice from someone who doesn’t have a physique you want. Find a trainer that has a desirable physique.

• Gives Tough Workouts - I know trainers that give easy workouts because they are afraid of scaring off their client and also it makes their client feel like they are doing something when they really aren’t. Your workouts should be hard and you should not be taking 7-10 minute rest times just to small talk. Make sure your trainer actually pushes you to failure and makes you break a sweat.

• Makes Your Nutrition Sustainable - It’s easy for a trainer to assign chicken and rice for every meal. But that’s not enjoyable or sustainable. A good trainer will ask you from the start what foods you like, when you prefer to eat throughout the day, and tell you how to cook and prep meals.

The Study 📖 

Comparing the impact of personal trainer guidance to exercising with others: Determining the optimal approach

This study examined the effects of supervised fitness training under the guidance of a personal trainer (PT group) and those of competitive fitness training with a partner (EP group), comparing them to individual training (IT group). The study involved 66 healthy male adults who were randomly divided into the three groups. All groups followed the same 12-week training program, but the PT group received guidance from certified personal trainers while the EP group trained with a partner.

Here’s what the study found:

• The PT group showed a significant reduction in fat mass (-1.61 kg, p = 0.033) compared to the IT and EP groups.

• For squats, only the PT group showed a significant improvement compared to the IT group (p = 0.003).

• The PT group exhibited a higher adherence to the prescribed nutritional plan compared to the IT and EP groups (p < 0.001).

• The PT group experienced fewer injuries and discomfort during training compared to the IT and EP groups.

• Both the PT and EP groups showed greater improvements in muscle mass, bench press, and squat strength compared to the IT group.

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