May 22, 2007

Weight Loss Tip #2: How to Pick a Good Personal Trainer

Tip! Avoid Hidden Calories. Here’s an over simplified version of weight loss and weight maintenance… if you eat more than your body needs, you gain weight.

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One of the major benefits of the YourBestBodyNOW
Program
and several other programs like it is that you can lose weight and meet your fitness and weight loss goals
even if you have neither the time nor money to get a personal trainer.

At the same time, if you do ultimately decide to hire trainer at some point,
I want to make sure that you are going about it in a way that will bring you the absolute
maximum benefit. I wouldn’t be a good fitness coach if I did anything less.

Tip! ‘Lose Weight and Keep It Off for Good.’ Be suspicious about products promising long-term or permanent weight loss.

There’s no doubt that getting a good personal trainer has many
benefits, including but no limited to:

  • Speeding up the learning curve
  • Great source of motivation
  • Getting increased results
  • Having a training partner to hold you accountable

At the same time, it is a HUGE mistake to simply rely on any old trainer
to help you to consistently get the results that you desire. I can’t tell
you how many people pay tons of money for expensive personal trainers
and get little to no results after months and months of working with these people.

Tip! Reason to consider weight loss: You’re sick of being introduced to women, and sensing them looking you up and down with disgust.

To keep as many people as possible from this horrific fate, I’ve put
together a little check list to help you in choosing a trainer that
is worth your money, time, and efforts.

  1. All trainers are not created equal, so you do the picking

    There are a lot of gyms and health clubs who will literally assign you
    a trainer when you sign up for the 1 on 1 option. Don’t fall for this.
    With the time, effort, and discipline that it takes to get great results
    for your body—even with a trainer—you want to make sure that you
    are getting someone that you are going to be both happy and comfortable with.

    Tip! Reason to consider weight loss: You’ve read a lot about the association of being overweight and hypertension, and your blood pressure is high at 150/90.

    You will want to meet several trainers, and may even want to ask a couple of
    them for a trial session to get a feel for their coaching style, depth of
    knowledge, and motivational skills. It also would not be a bad idea to talk
    to some of the members of the gym who are already in great shape and ask
    them which trainer or trainers they think knows what he or she is doing. You’ll
    be surprised at the quality of information that you will get.

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  2. Don’t Listen to a trainer who does not look
    any better than you do

    I literally gasp for air everytime I walk into a gym and see a trainer with a
    client and noticing that the trainer is in no better—if not worse shape than
    the person who is paying them to improve their health and physique.

    I mean really, do the math on this one. How can someone who has not
    achieved what you want to accomplish possibly help you how to get there?

    You wouldn’t take investment advice from someone who was broke; you
    wouldn’t pay for piano lessons from somoene who’s tone def; and you certainly
    wouldn’t ask for tutoring from the class dunce and then pay him to do it.
    So why in the world would you pay someone to help you have the body
    you want who has not already accomplished it for themself?

    Tip! Don’t skip meals. As you learned during the weight loss period, your body does better with 3-5 meals a day, versus just one meal a day.

  3. One Size Does Not Fit All

    Just like you tend to wear clothes that compliment your particular
    body composition, there are numerous aspects of working out and dieting
    that will cater to making the best out of your very unique body type
    and its characteristics.

    Make sure that whatever trainer you use is not only knowledgeable of this
    fact but makes it a part of your program to evaluate specifically what should
    be done to best enhance your body type, not someone else’s.

  4. Expect the Unmagical

    Rome was not built in a day, and neither will your best physique be.
    It is not what you do in spurts, but what you do consistently or a long
    period of time that determines what your body will look like and how
    well it will function.

    Hiring a personal trainer may slightly accelerate your results, and will
    most definitely focus them. Nevertheless, a trainer is not the end-all
    to your development, and getting what you want out of this will take just
    as much if not more work than you would have to put out anyway.

    Tip! Monitor/Increase Your Activity - Regardless whether you’re taking diet pills or not to help with your weight loss, it’s still important to maintain a regular exercise program. This is beneficial not only for your weight loss, but also for your overall health.

    Think of your trainer as a guide and a coach—not the silver bullet
    to Your Best Body in 30 days
    or less. Just know that as long as you are consistent, your results
    will gradually take care of themselves.

  5. Be a Good Student

    Once you’ve picked a good personal trainer who you feel comfortable with
    and confident in, LISTEN to them! Make sure to really take advantage of not

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    only the precious time that you have with them during your workouts but also

    to their wealth of knowledge regarding your health and fitness that you can

    apply to your life outside of the gym.

    Many of the information and techniques that you learn from a good trainer
    can serve you well for much of your life as you constantly improve your overall
    health and well being.

Whether you are a fitness newbie, or a seasoned exercise buff looking to
take your workout program to the next level, a well selected personal trainer
can be a HUGE benefit to the attainment of your fitness goals. Just make sure
that you are shrewd in your selection of them and that you sponge all of the
good information that you can for yourself. If you truly take on the task of
doing it right, I assure you that you won’t regret it.

Tip! If possible, it’s best to go with a weight loss program that has been recommended by a friend or trusted source.

To YourBestBody,

Lawrence Cole

Your Lifestyle and Fitness Coach
YourBestBodyNOW.com

See this Weight Loss article on YourBestBodyNOW.com

Lawrence Cole is a Lifestyle and Fitness Consultant based out of Los Angeles,
CA. He has over 10 years of health and fitness experience and designing simple,
effective nutritional strategies to help individuals achieve their personal best
internal health and physical conditioning.

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