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You don't need a personal trainer if you are intelligent enough to read and learn for yourself.

The only thing you need in addition (and what people are really paying many of these psuedo-trainers for) is motivation and the following three things:

1) Dedication
2) Discipline
3) Desire

If you are new to working out, a personal trainer is good for one reason only: To teach you correct form on exercises.

As for those trainers that put people on machine-based programs and have them follow a circuit, they are nothing more than rep counters and have no business getting paid that much for such a cookie-cutter routine.

I've spent many years reading, training and researching. I've done many different programs and trained in different things (Olympic lifting, powerlifting, bodybuilding, athletic conditioning), so I've seen what works, what doesn't and how to tailor things to suit myself and others.

Although I got my bachelor's in public relations, I minored in exercise and sports sciences, and it still remains at the top of my list in every day life.

I've changed my training to be more "general fitness and health" oriented lately, as I don't have as much time or energy to train the way I used to, but I'm still making wonderful progress in less time.

It can be done. Check out those links. Read. Learn. Grow.

Pay me if you want to pay a personal trainer.

 

Vanity vanity vanity, I like to think it has more to with health than vanity.

 

Okay, I HAVE to chime in here. I used to be a trainer with Lifetime Fitness. In response to gym provided trainers not being professional, how does two nationally recognized certifications (ACE, NASM) and a BS in Kinesiology sound. Not professional, huh? Ask my clients. The ones who no longer have low back pain, have thrown out their pain and cholesterol medication, the ones who have gone from 35% body fat to 25%. The fact is there are a lot of poser trainers out there, but there are many, many well educated and extremely helpful ones as well. True, not everyone needs a trainer. But I would be willing to bet that most everyone could benefit from a couple of good ass kicking sessions.

 

ACE is a sorry certification process. The only true certification programs are:

1) NSCA
2) ISCA

There are good trainers out there. But they are few and far between.

 

but from what I watch they aren't doing anything close to "ass kicking"... they mearly wonder from one machine to the next doing 1-2 sets that are not even streneouos........ seems like a total waste of $ to pay the "trainers" that I am observing.

 

That's typical of the "fitness clubs" that put everyone on their "cookie-cutter" programs.

I can't believe people pay for that. It's one thing to have a personal trainer to teach you how to use the free weights and proper form, but having a trainer for a machine-based program is ridiculous.

 

now that I think about it, about 95% of what I observe is using machines......... i think i saw one of the lady trainers working with a lady doing situps off of a big huge red ball and they had a medicine ball they were passing back and forth....whoppee... ahah

Maybe the $ spent is the only motivation to go..... for me it is the $33 i pay per month (it is really cheap due to my health insurance company) and in general I don't like to be a fatty.

 

i do agree motivation has a big part in it, If i dont think of it as, there is someone waiting at the gym for me, there is a slighter chance that I might just "do it harder when i go tomorrow" =/