Top Reasons for Hiring a Personal Trainer

The goal of this blog is to go into depth on a few of the reasons people hire a personal trainer and provide information about the value personal trainers provide to their clients. There are a number of different reasons an individual may be looking to hire a personal trainer. Not every person has the same reasons. But most of the time, people hire a personal trainer for a multitude of reasons rather than just one.

Probably the most common reason people hire a personal trainer is for accountability. Working out is hard. It is also not fun for the majority of the population. Therefore, hiring a personal trainer gives people the push they need, so they no longer have to rely on willpower in order to get their workouts in. The financial commitment paired with the accountability provided by having your trainer waiting for you at a particular scheduled time makes skipping your workout not just more costly financially, but also in the sense of feeling like you are letting someone else down by not following through on your commitment.

The next reason people hire a personal trainer, and probably the second most prominent, is to ensure they’re performing particular exercises correctly in order to prevent injury and maximize results. Strength training is not intuitive to most people, and it is not straight forward. Performing movements in the gym correctly, with added load via weights, requires careful attention and execution. The process of learning proper techniques across multiple different movement patterns can take a long time, involving a large amount of trial and error. For most people, the time required is too great to do this on your own. Hiring a trainer allows people to maximize efficiency and results by utilizing a trained professional who has gone through many hours of study as well as trial and error so you don’t have to.

Another reason people hire personal trainers is the customization aspect of working with a trainer. When you hire a personal trainer, they are able to assess your strengths and weaknesses. This includes any imbalances you may have, potential underactive or overactive muscles, etc. This enables trainers to create a workout program specifically tailored to your needs and specific goals. Oftentimes, it is difficult for people to determine what exercises to do, how many sets and reps to perform, and how often to switch up their exercise routine. Hiring a trainer takes out all the guesswork. It also provides clients with an opportunity to learn, so going forward, they feel more confident and capable of working out on their own and knowing what they should do in the gym in regard to whatever their desired outcome is.

The final reason people hire a personal trainer that this blog will cover is for nutritional guidance. Many trainers have experience in regard to exercise nutrition via education and/or certification. Strength training provides a particular kind of stress on the body that requires clients to ensure they are getting adequate nutrition. It can be challenging to know how many calories to eat, how much of the three macronutrients to intake (carbs, fats and protein) as well as micronutrient intake. Hiring a qualified trainer provides clients with access to someone with nutritional knowledge that takes out the guesswork in much the same way as it does for the workouts themselves. Nutrition is also further complicated because there are a number of cultural, social and societal factors that weigh in when people are determining what to eat day in and day out. Therefore, trainers/nutrition coaches can help provide guidance on nutritional habits and the psychology of eating. This entails working with clients on their relationship with food to help uncover bad habits or ideas around eating particular types of food. These soft skills oftentimes have just as big of an impact as the hard skill of knowing what to eat.

These are just a few of the reasons people hire a personal trainer, and from what we see, the most common. There are surely many other good reasons people could hire a personal trainer, and the list could go on and on.