3 Tips for Finding a Personal Trainer That's a Perfect Fit for Your Fitness Needs

Richard A Haynes

When you are considering hiring a personal trainer to help you do your fitness goals or looking for professional help to recover from a previous surgery, you want to be sure you are hiring the best candidate you can find.

Having worked in the field of physical rehabilitation and fitness over 17 years as of this writing, you learn to determine who is living what they believe in. I have listed what I feel are three important qualities you want to find in the personal trainer you are considering turning your health and fitness over to and your hard-earned dollars.


1. Do They Promote Health and Fitness?

It is said you can look at someone and in a matter of seconds know how they feel about their health for instance. Any personal trainer or for that fact anyone in the medical field such as myself know that our bodies are our business cards. The trainer you are interested in working with first of all should have be taking personal pride and how they look. If they are not practicing what they are selling how in the world can you have full faith that they believe in themselves and the fitness routine they want to offer to you?

2. Listening and Communication Skills.

This is a skill that many can find hard to master. Hiring a personal trainer is about you, not them. Your trainer should be listening much more to what you have to say and talking less. Do they seem interested in what you goals are? A good trainer will take the necessary information needed to begin constructing a fitness regiment for you once they have sat down and talked to you and have learned what you are seeking and looking to improve on.

Your trainer should be able to give you insight in how they work and then what they will expect out of you as a potential client. Personal training should be more than someone counting repetitions, they should be someone who demonstrates energy and is motivational and, is teaching you also about the importance of diet, sleep and proper hydration for instance.

3. What Is their Experience Level?

 It will is important to first make sure they are qualified to be a trainer. Anyone today can become a trainer as the field is not regulated. In my profession as a physical therapist for instance I have to be licensed through the state and pass state boards, right now trainers do not.

Many Personal trainers will have particular niches in which they may specialize in. If you want to build more muscle and looking to possibly entering a bodybuilding competition than you want to look for someone who has trained clients for that specialty and has had the experience and success. If you want to improve your health after a surgical procedure find a trainer that is experienced in working with your type of medical condition.

Finding the right trainer for you that you get along with and, has the knowledge to get you the results you want will take some investigation but is well worth the time when investing your future health.

Richard is the owner of Total Joint Fitness LLC located in Punta Gorda, Florida. Total Joint Fitness LLC, is a weight training website for individuals interested in getting leaner,building more muscle, creating stronger bodies or, Just want to get into better condition by losing weight to keep future health care costs down. For more information, exercises, or on-line fitness training go to http://www.totaljointfitness.com.

For Richard's free ebook on the truth about fad diets and which diets to avoid when training to build muscle or losing weight, go to http://www.orthopedicweightloss.com for further information.



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