"Gyms near me" or working with a "Personal Fitness Trainer"?  these are often asked questions when you have decided to prioritise and to put your fitness first, we dicuss 'what personal trainers do' and  how you can go about selecting a personal fitness trainer thats right for you.

Personal Fitness Training versus Gyms in-house personal trainers

If you are you looking for an individual "one to one" fitness training program you problably need personal training support. Personal trainers help you achieve "your fitness goals" and create individual training concepts for you. A personal trainer is a reliable partner who will advise you on more fitness and better body awareness. Gyms quite often ask their in-house personal trainers to follow a strict regime with limits on the types of excercises, this means that the excercises are 'generic' in nature and wont always be suitable for you individually so the benefits soon come to an end and you hit a plateu. You also dont always get to choose your PT, so you could get someone with just 6 weeks of basic fitness training.

 

What is a personal trainer?

A personal trainer is a person who looks after individual customers individually and privately. It can be, for example, a sports scientist, sports teacher, or fitness trainer. The personal trainer advises and accompanies their customers about their sporting activities and helps them to achieve personal fitness goals. Classically, the training takes place at 1: 1 supervision.


Unfortunately, the job title "personal trainer" is not protected by law. This makes it possible to call yourself a personal trainer with no training. What there are, however, are certificates and qualifications that can be got at commercial institutes.

Many personal trainers have a variety of qualifications depending on what they specialise in, such as a university degree in sports science in professional sports,  or advanced training courses and certifcations for individuals and gyms. The personal trainer needs certain professional qualifications to be able to create individual training programs for their customers - training programs that take into account the goals, wishes, preferences, athletic abilities, and personal lifestyles of the customers.

Whats do personal fitness trainers do?

Personal Fitness Trainers put your fitness first, they ...

1. are specialists in their respective fields
2. develop a training strategy
3. create individual training concepts depending on personal goals
4. discuss these goals with you and assess how realistic they are
5. sometimes define partial or intermediate goals
6. Prepare for each training session before and after
7. adapt to you in terms of time and space
8. are sometimes also available as contact persons apart from the training
9. supervise you during training, assist, and correct incorrect movement sequences
10. carry out check-ups at regular intervals to check the effectiveness of the training

Personal trainers, like Sami at thefitnessguru.london, not only know their way around the fitness training world but also have in-depth knowledge in the field of nutritional science (nutritional science) to be able to advise you on nutrition that supports training.


The personal trainer will advise you on the selection of appropriate sports and fitness equipment that you can use as a training partner.

For whom is a personal trainer worthwhile? - target groups?

Personal training under the guidance of a personal trainer is suitable for all people of all ages who feel responsible for their body and health, want to live more consciously, and need professional advice, support, and support for this.

Personal trainers advise, supervise and accompany:

 

1. Athletic beginners and newcomers who do not know sports and fitness avoid mistakes at the beginning of the training, e.g. when choosing the right weights and the number of repetitions. It is not important how big the first step is, but in which direction it goes!
2. Recreational athletes who pursue specific training goals, such as preparing for a marathon, but who have reached their limit when it comes to planning and controlling training.
3. Professional athletes who cannot or do not want to go to public fitness studios, for example, to protect their privacy.
4. People who need special motivation and may have already failed various efforts at gym classes/programs and/or are frustrated by failed diets.
5. People with individual illnesses or injury need a tailor-made training program that is tailored to the existing complaints and possible risks, and those who also need help with performing the exercises. Sami at thefitnessguru.london for example helps many clients recover from injury (checks out testamonials and reviews!).
6. People who want to achieve success with minimal time. These are mostly people who are very busy at work, who have little free time and who want to use the little time they have optimally for sport.

Visit our program website pages and you'll see instagram videos of clients, all ages, fitness levels from beginner to regular Marathon runners.

 

How do I choose the right personal trainer? and  What are the qualities of a good personal trainer?

 

Once you have decided to try a fitness PT, the first step in the right direction! and you have decided on personal training under professional guidance, the next step is to find the right personal trainer - a trainer who has the qualifications, whom you can trust, and who will support you with all their skills in achieving your goals. Here you are some useful tips on how to recognize a good personal trainer to help you chose the right one for you;

1. Pay attention to the career path, qualifications, practical experience, information regarding references, and the training focus of your preferred candidate. This initial information gives you information about how to fit the personal trainer in personal coaching and whether it suits you, at least formally. For example, the personal trainer should be transparent and open about he experience, check out Profile and Experience for thefitnessguru.london .
2. A good personal trainer is ready to talk to you to get to know you. This is used to make the first contact vis-à-vis. Initial goals and needs can be discussed and they can carry trial training out.
3. A professional, conscientious personal trainer takes time to get to know you, your goals and what you need before starting the training. This is a conversation in which the personal trainer determines your history of current and past illnesses/symptoms, asks about your goals, needs, and your motivation.
4. The personal trainer can realistically assess your personal goals to plan partial or intermediate goals if necessary.
5. The personal trainer leads right at the start of the fitness journey with you for example, an initial check-up that provides information about your current fitness level. From this, the personal trainer (in combination with the knowledge gained from earlier discussions about goals and objectives) draws all training-relevant data to create a training concept specially tailored to you.
6. In the further course of the training, the personal trainer carries out check-ups again and again - on the one hand, to check the effectiveness of the training, on the other hand, to check the degree of target achievement.
7. The personal trainer adjusts the training plan designed for you again and again and expands it constantly. In this way, it avoids your body getting used to the training or the physical strain and it comes to a standstill in terms of increased performance, weight reduction, etc. Your personal trainer must therefore have all the knowledge in the areas of training, control, and methodological knowledge.
8. Your personal trainer ensures that your personal training plan can be easily integrated into your everyday life and your environment. Even if that means that he has to come to your work (e.g. during your lunch break) or the park around the corner. The personal trainer gets to and from the training location.
9. Your personal trainer explains each training unit to you (what is important? What is the goal?), accompanies you and does not use any standard training programs.
10. If your personal trainer cannot be present at every training session, they will give you "homework" regularly and monitor it.
11. You are in constant contact with your personal trainer (via phone, SMS, email, and other media), even away from the training area.
12. Your personal trainer is empathetic, motivating, creative, engages with you, recognises your strengths, can listen and you can trust him.
13. The personal trainer will help you with nutritional advise and a good PT will suggest changes when the nature of the training.

 

For more on personal fitness training, visit our FAQs and also check out our 'Training Programs' for more info and how thefitnessguru.london can help you if your looking for a PT in central London.