Many folks who go to big gyms have bought personal training packages. This is a major revenue generator for the big fitness gyms and the packages they sell can include 50, 100 or even more one-on-one sessions. At often $80.00 per session or more, you can see why the fitness industry tries to sell the hell out of these one-on-one personal training sessions. They even finance them.
What exactly are they selling though? What is the real value of this proprietary knowledge and its dispensing at close to $100.00 per hour? It is true that the science behind the best information on physical improvement is painfully scientific, clinical, and voluminous. As such, for the uninitiated much trust is afforded to personal trainers and their expertise. Unfortunately, these clear waters are often unnecessarily muddied.
I know for a fact that the correct knowledge is really quite elegant to communicate. Instructing someone on exactly what to do for great results can be surprisingly straightforward. As such, if you are trying to lose body fat and you are paying for personal training, I would strongly suggest you get a new personal trainer if any of the items on the following list prove true:
- Permanent dietary change has not been thoroughly addressed
- The dietary advice involves total/daily caloric restriction (this won’t work)
- The dietary advice is meant to be followed temporarily to get you to a target weight
- Workouts are boring
- Workouts are well over an hour
- Workouts are very difficult
- Your trainer abides by the adage “no pain – no gain”
- You are told to work out for hours on cardio machines or running – “like it or not”
- You don’t see any results after at least 2 weeks, but have followed all instructions
- Their long term plans for you invariably involve you giving them more money
- Your trainer is not training you to train yourself (After about 10 sessions you should have a good idea of exactly what to do, and also exactly why and how)
Please remember that our contemporary fitness industry has one primary goal – to make as much money as possible. You succeeding and finally reaching your health and fitness goals would in no way be conducive to their goal because you wouldn’t need to buy any more of their crappy fitness training or products. In short, you wouldn’t need them anymore. Ever wonder why every day there are new books, programs and fitness gadgets that absolutely promise success? It’s strange though, how we just keep getting fatter and unhealthier.
It gets even more confusing because even the nutritionists and trainers with good intentions are taught, programmed and borne out of this same industry – their incorrect methods and information doom us to failure.
Please, discover the true, elegant solutions which are the product of real science and human evolution. These truths have nothing to do with making other people money and everything to do with solving your diet, fitness, and health problems – for good!