Michele the Trainer’s Tips for Adapting to Summer Workouts 1. …
Any Workout vs. a Workout that’s Right for YOU
Any Workout vs. a Workout that’s Right for YOU
Has this ever happened to you, or to someone you know?
You want a personal trainer and you call Joe. When you show up to workout, however, it’s Moe, or maybe Jack?
What happened to Joe?
How can this affect you and possibly create unnecessary injury?
We’ve all participated in some class or activity that felt like we are being shoved into someone else’s program, at some point in our lives. (I felt like that as a child in gymnastics!)
This is how it might go down;
Person A is looking for a trainer
Person A finds trainer B
Person A hires trainer B
Trainer B sells you a package, then outsources to his delegates, and then puts you into a group of people, to aggregate his earnings
Person A no longer sees trainer B, but is now a herded victim of outsourced trainer C
Trainers C (and the rest of the crew, trainers D and E) learned how to train from infomercial dvd’s, and from ONE program dictated by trainer b. Sure you might get lucky and find someone who really knows their stuff, but the stories I hear never include that role.
There is usually only one program because that’s the only way this scales for trainer b to get paid; we don’t really know if trainer B knows their stuff, since we may have only seen them once. One repeatable program. OK, maybe more than one, but you get the point. That’s why the ice cream store has 31 kinds of ice cream; it makes it easier for them to hire “anyone” to open another store. If they were ice cream chefs with a new and unique seasonal organic homemade flavor every week, then that’s special. What do you want and more importantly, what do you need?
Is an “anyone” trainer knowledgeable enough to help you?
If you have a broken bone that isn’t healed yet, or you’re on the list for joint replacement, etc. trainer B’s program is clearly not for you.
What about Person A’s aching back, knee, etc?
Person A might start to feel like they are being shoved into some program that isn’t working for them. For example, a program with a lot of jumping would be terribly inappropriate if person A has bad knees.
Often these present as personal training at discount (class prices). You might be signing up for a class, and not know it.
I’m not saying that all expensive trainers are terrific
My point is to remain an advocate for YOU and the health of YOU, your spine and your joints
I want you to know when to KNOW that a workout is clearly not for you. If someone is selling you that a circular peg should be shoved into a square hole, that it’s time to call me. Please, call me long before that!
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