Some people might wonder what the
point of a personal trainer is, in general, and what the point of coming to
work out with me in particular is, since I post a workout every week and anyone
can just follow the directions. It’s
simple: I’m that cute.
Not really. I’m that funny.
OK, it’s not that either.
Workouts are easy to find. You can get them from the grocery
store, the library, the bookstore, the Internet, and even the dim recesses of
high school memory. Motivation and
consistency are rarer. Some people
wake up motivated and do everything on their to-do lists. Those people probably also floss their
teeth and wax their kitchen floors.
I don’t know any of them.
When we have an appointment with a trainer, we have made a commitment of
time and money. That trainer is
going to stand there looking at us the whole time; we might as well get on with
the work.
Then there is the personal part
of the personal training. Yes, I
do post a workout every week. Most
of my clients do that workout, more or less. But sometimes someone has a tweaked knee, or an irritated
rotator cuff. Some people need and
want to work with heavier weights, while others need to build endurance. My job is to take the workout we have
planned and alter it to fit the human being who walks through my door with a
particular energy level, health status, and stress condition.
Doing the workout I write every
week is good. Doing it with me is
better!
