Considerations When Looking For A Personal Trainer

By Elizabeth Robbins

To assist you in the achievement of your goals in fitness, personal trainers have specific training. You will fill out a medical questionnaire during a pre-exercise fitness evaluation in the beginning session with a personal trainer. Goals, previous sporting experience, previous injuries, and current activity levels are established by this questionnaire that also is used as a tool for the assessment of risk. Prior to beginning a fitness program, a doctor's clearance must be obtained when the initial evaluation is failed by a client.

Next you will need to complete a fitness assessment requiring you to do a series of exercises that will assist you in the establishment of your present weaknesses and strengths. An exercise plan will be developed by your trainer utilizing your goals, time frame, and identified strengths and weaknesses. This is accomplished by taking measurements of the body including the folds of the skin, your weight, and how tall you are, and taking your age, flexibility, and posture into account so your progress can be tracked to determine if your exercise program is working.

Your diet will be carefully examined, as you will be requested to keep a food diary in detail by the trainer for the length of the training program. Since fitness professionals are very knowledgeable about dietary requirements, yours will let you know whether you are eating properly and will tell you what you should be eating if you are not.

Prior to hiring your trainer your should verify that they are qualified and insured. The optimal means of achieving this is by getting them to give you their fitness association membership number and expiration date; if it's current, then they probably are also insured and hold the required First Aid Level 2 certificate. Place a call to the fitness association that has registered them for verification of their credentials to be certain.

Look for a personal trainer with adequate training experience, and also the type of experience he has. For instance, if a person is middle aged, and hoping to lose weight by training, one should look for a trainer who has gone mostly with this type of client in the past. Alternatively, if one is a high level athlete searching to make an edge on the playing field through training, then that is the skill set to look for in a possible trainer.

Good luck in locating a great personal trainer; I hope you've found this text helpful along the way. - 33373

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