These Are The Reasons Why You Should Never Sign Up For Personal Training
Personal training is one of the biggest profit making services for a gym and its trainers. This is the reason the staff at the gyms push people to sign up for personal training (PT) programs. The newbies are the most prone to the PT sales pitch.
If you’ve just got a gym membership, working out can look intimidating. The trainers at your gym know this and will try to push you into signing up for a PT. No matter how hard they try, you should stay away from it.
1. Not For The Long Run
Staying with a personal trainer forever can be hard even if you want to compete in pro bodybuilding shows. Most people tend to stop taking the personal training services once they get the knack of things in the gym.
While this might be the obvious next step for you, there are chances your personal trainer will not be happy with your decision. Don’t expect help or spot from the trainers at your gym once you’re off the personal training program.
2. Cross Selling
Once you sign up for PT, you’ve established you’re ready to spend handsomely on your health. Many gyms recommend and sell supplements to their customers and make a fat commission on every sale.
Cross selling doesn’t end at supplements. It can even extend to gym gear and any other thing related to fitness and working out. Don’t be surprised the next time your personal trainer finds something extraordinary and wants you to try it.
3. Over Dependence
Getting a personal trainer for yourself is like outsourcing the tension about your health. This can be a good and a bad thing. Over-dependence on your trainer for your training and nutrition plans can be harmful.
Your trainer will love to do all this work since it will keep you dependent on him. You should be actively involved in building your diet and training plans. Make sure you’re questioning and learning from your trainer with every single passing day.
4. No Custom Training Programs
Personal training isn’t as personal as you might think it is. Look at it from the business point of view, the more clients the trainer services, the more he earns. Training clients for the entire day can leave little to no time to work on individual client training programs.
The trainers end up building a generic training plan which all their trainees follow. In worse cases, people follow plans which are available on Bodybuilding.com for free. If you decide to opt for personal training, see to it your instructor builds a custom plan for you.
5. Getting A Wrong Match
No two people are the same. You can’t go with any fitness trainer. You need someone who matches your personality and style and understands where you lack. Your fitness instructor will be with you for the entire time you’re in the gym, choose someone you can jell well with.
Hiring a wrong match can act as a demotivation. You might start skipping your workouts because of your trainer. The best way to avoid this is to ask the trainer for a trial and only finalizing if he is a good fit for you.
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What to do Instead
Instead of personal training you can instead find a great fitness app. But, which fitness app should you choose?
Boostcamp
Boostcamp is a freemium app with over 50 free programs from renowned coaches for bodybuilding and strength training, or you can create your own.
Boostcamp is a freemium app that allows you to choose from over 50 free workout programs from renowned coaches, such as Dr. Eric Helms, Alberto Nunez, Geoffrey Verity Schofield, and even Arnold Schwarzenegger. No matter what your goals are, the chances are that Boostcamp has a program for it, strength, hypertrophy, powerbuilding, and so on.
You can also build custom routines, track workouts, and measure analytics with the lightning fast workout tracker to log all your training and get valuable insights to make more gains, making it a no-brainer as to why this is on our list of the best bodybuilding apps.
Boostcamp is also known for world class strength programs! The best part is, it is a FREE app. Who doesn’t love learning some new workouts and making progress more efficiently, for free?
Read our full Boostcamp App review.
Why You Shouldn’t You Sign Up For Personal Training Wrap Up
Overall, if you are joining a gym, personal training may be a waste of time. There is a good chance that they are in it for the money, so save yourself a few bucks and instead, find a good bodybuilding app. One of the best bodybuilding apps, is Boostcamp.
Check it out and let us know your thoughts!
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Amen brother! They just want your money. Unless you are fortunate enough to have Charles Glass training you!
Agree - everyone is a trainer these days - I have to keep my head down when training just so I'm not distracted by the sheer number of moronic "trainers" - and they are hurting people sometimes with their bullshit movements - be careful people!!!!
If you were that motivated then you wouldn't need to keep your head down.
Like i said i can see why you commented on my post because you obviously lack confidence, but to build your confidence i can train you
Nate Caius Meigh hardly! I keep my head down so I don't become distracted by the fucking morons who claim to be effective trainers. As far as confidence is concerned - save your arm chair diagnosis for the idiots you train who obviously know nothing of a quality trainer - you helping me? Arrogant fuck! I've been competing for years and been trained by the best - you're just a clown - just starting out - don't get ahead of yourself!
Haha aggression is the first sign that I've caught you out.
If you've worked with some of the best then we would of heard of you and you'd have photos of your accomplishments and not hiding but more importantly if you had managed to get on stage (a performing arts stage) then nothing would distract you but you're another clear example that you have issues with lying because you aren't achieving your goals. I've achieved a 6st weight loss and improving with fitness everyday still aswell as having photos as proof........ Wheres your proof?
Where are these photos of you with the worlds best?
You're just another person who hates others for their success
Really sad but like i said before all of my clients have seen results so you should take some tips for yourself instead of daydreaming haha
Nate Caius Meigh you are a fucking joke - all of your pseudo psychology only serves to discredit you.
"Issues with lying because I'm not achieving my goals?" "Where are my pics?" And my favorite, "we would have heard of you if you were trained by the best?"
Wow!! What a fucking moron! Do you think everyone trained by the best are well known?
Do you think I have something to prove to a skinny bitch like you? You revealing yourself in your pictures only serves to show you've made mild progress - doesn't prove your a good trainer - just proves you look like a long distance runner - very little muscle!!!
6st (is that 6 stone)? Ahh good for you! You were an obese kid who lost some weight and now you think you know everything - I get it! I've watched "the biggest loser" and "my 600 pound life" - that's a great accomplishment - still... doesn't mean your an effective trainer!!
Hates other for success you say??? Morons like you have been spouting rhetoric like that for ever - I love that you lost weight - good for you - however, I hate posers and frauds and am disgusted by people a false sense of themselves.
If you can run.. should you be a running coach? If you can swim should you coach people to swim? Of course not!! You lost weight and now your a trainer - get my point! What qualifies you?
Not even reading through all your excuses as you've been made to look a idiot.
I said if YOU had trained with the best then you would have photos but no you're an attention seeker which yet again is part of your illness as you're
Aggressive
Liar
Self confidence issues
And more
My clients results and education speaks for itself but that aside the really sad thing about you is that the age you are you should be setting an example but you prefer act like a idiot and boast about things you probably haven't got.
I never said anything about the famous best in the business so yet again another clear sign that you've got to lie because you've wasted your life.
I never gloat about my accomplishments because that isn't who i am because usually the ones that do is to compensate that they aren't where they want to be.
I did say usually but there are people that do gloat that have made a success and deserve it unlike you then haven't expected sympathy.
It's been great speaking with you but for now thankyou for giving me the opportunity of teaching you about maturity and further more good luck with the illness and getting the help you need Goodbye
By the way you are obviously blind because i said I'm not a bodybuilder and my photos show one thing....... Achieving my goals. I haven't uploaded a photos for months and look different now but none the less i am a PT in weight loss not bodybuilding lol
I'll block you now to save the bit of dignity you surely should have
Goodbye
Been saying this since i was 17 years old.. Now 33
Find yourself a "coach" not a personal trainer. Ask to see a degree in Exercise/Sports Science or related field, and not some online course they took in a month.
Mohammad Altaf
Just because you have a degree in human kinetics and took a PT course does not mean you are a good coach. Try getting yourself in shape first before telling people how to get in shape.
When trainerds get paid really good. Do you think you will get result soon it's a big scam system ... it's money honey...
Cheryl Sice
Goes to show Will is the one in a million then ???......
Hahha thanks, Chez ?
A fat fuck personal trainer who neither trains nor diets?
I'm a personal trainer in weight loss and not one of these things stated is true to myself. I've never thought about money doing it as i train my clients in my spare time but more importantly i am a personal trainer because i thrive on supporting people to be the best that they can be as i was once that person.
It's easy for people to sit behind keyboards and slate others but not everyone is self centred and possessed by money
Nate that argument is nonsense - you may want to support your clients but that does NOT make you a good trainer. Moreover, even people who are certified often make poor trainers. Don't confuse altruism and academia for what makes a great trainer - there is no correlation -
A good trainer must be passionate, motivating, have positive energy as well as having a wealth of experience - mostly procured from their own struggles with nutrition, correct form, injury avoidance etc etc. I've been training for 40 years and have competed internationally in both bodybuilding and powerlifting. I've used coaches who are the biggest names in the industry and I would still be very cautious if anyone asked me for advise - and yet I watch young, inexperienced people train others every day - no results, no system to measure progress and often working around injuries that the trainer was responsible for inducing - the industry is packed with frauds and posers - you may not believe you are but unless you meet the criteria I just mentioned - don't fool yourself and don't waste people's time or money or, most importantly, their health!!!
Ignorant!
I am everything you've said so i can class myself as a great personal trainer. Every one of my clients have achieved their goals and better yet done so by a huge margin. Personally experience has nothing to do with it as I've proved aswell as I know I've accomplished what i wanted and more importantly so do my clients. To say what I've said is nonsense is really sad and immature as to judge someone you don't know is just that. My client base speaks for itself. I was once 16.02st and was in very poor health and therefore turned my life around and now my health and wellbeing is excellent as I'm at 10.03st and are improving everyday.
A great personal trainer is someone who supports not only their clients but anyone who wants to better themselves after all a personal trainer doesn't just relate to fitness.
I do agree that there are alot of frauds but I've chased my passion and seen remarkable results and that's what makes a great PT.
Mate why even care to respond, just a lot of negative comments from sour peeps...Yeah I've competed at international level too and am a national bodybuilding champion, been a PT in 3 different countries and also had contracts with the US military for just such reasons....hating on trainers as your clearly sour....we aren't all money grabbers and I don't even advertise, people come to me, haven't don't that in years lol
You've just slightly contradicted yourself because if you were even slighty concerned about a PT methods then you wouldn't of ever had one yourself. I could judge people but that would go against my nature and what i stand for but from my experience the people who judge others are usually the ones who lack confidence in themselves and tend to have issues with lying to compensate that they aren't achieving their goals (thats my experience of the people who judge, not me judging unless I'm 100% sure)