Why should I have a Personal Trainer?

Why should I have a Personal Trainer?

Many Personal Trainers are compassionate, highly educated, experts of their field. Choosing the right trainer can be a rewarding experience. You will benefit from increased accountability, expert direction and better results.

A brief Job Description for Personal Trainers - Motivation, Education and Accountability. A trainer should get you to enjoy what you are doing (or minimally despise it) and motivate you to continue exercising. Workouts that a trainer will provide far exceed the sit down and push experience that most health club goers are provided. Training sessions are creative and versatile, they are functional and transferable to the outside world, they are challenging, progressive and systematic.

A Coaching and Education post

Great trainers will also provide education. Many trainers gain knowledge beyond basic fitness certifications by obtaining advanced certifications, degrees or attending specialty workshops.
If you are pregnant, have an existing injury, want to change the appearance of your body or are trying to improve performance then seek out a trainer who has experience and expertise in these areas. The differences can be staggering.

Lastly, a great trainer makes you accountable to yourself. Let’s face it, most of us do not enjoy exercising. A trainer will get you to show up more often than you will on your own. It is an appointment and it will cost you if you do not show up which will improve your attendance rate. Plus, many trainers are charismatic, friendly and funny people! You will enjoy the time you spend with them on a personal and professional level. It will ease times you are not looking forward to working out and improve performance on the days that you are looking forward to.

A trainer can figure out why you are not reaching your goal and help provide long lasting solutions. Chances are your trainer has experience with someone in your situation before. A trainer will have the ability to sit down and explain what it will take for you to achieve the result you are after, or why you are not reaching your current goals. They have experience planning workouts, altering negative behaviors, guiding you through the confusion and mayhem that is popular diet and exercise trends and make sure you make the most efficient and effective choices for the long term.
Results are the trainers #1 priority. It is our job, duty and responsibility to be prepared to move you forward faster.

 A Goal Setting Post

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Nutritional Supplements - Multi Vitamin

Position Statement on Multivitamin

Researchers from the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health stated in a landmark review that all adults should take a multivitamin daily. The June 19, 2002 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

The aforementioned statement is quite compelling, and it is fairly naïve to think that we consume every health compound in optimal doses, ratios and at proper times from food alone on a daily basis. Any compound contributing to cellular performance has the potential to be sub-optimal when food alone is the matrix.

Why daily food intake may be insufficient -

1. Lack of Knowledge by the general population to analyze, buy, store and prepare foods to meet their daily needs.
2. Sedentary Environment – low energy needs make it hard to get in all the nutrients without consuming excess calories.
3. Food Preferences – fast and convenient foods often are high in calories and low in nutrients.
4. Inaccurate nutritional information on or in foods.

Therefore, given the safety margins of nutrients and the industry’s safety record, supplementation offers a sound and viable means of optimizing health and performance.

You need all of this stuff everyday.  Good luck getting it solely through your food intake.

 Let's face reality

Here are 10 reasons why you should take a Multi Vitamin:

1. No one eats perfectly. 
2. There is a TON of daily stress (which robs nutrients).
3. Most of us eat based on convenience, not nutrition needs.
4. Exercise increases your nutrient requirements.
5. Fat Loss requires a calorie deficit.  Nutrients are found in FOOD!  Now you are eating crap AND eating less.
6. Brain function requires optimal levels of nutrition.
7. Athletic Performance places high demands on your body.  Nutritional requirements are increased for recovery purposes.
8. Inconsistent eating habits, insufficient chewing of food, eating on the run, and stress contribute to poor digestion, making it difficult for our bodies to extract all the nutrients it needs from food.
9. Pharmaceutical drug use has escalated over time. Most medications deplete essential nutrients, making people more vulnerable to deficiencies.
10. Specific times in life and health conditions may result in higher needs of certain nutrients. For example, folic acid needs tend to be higher during pregnancy, while menopausal women may be vulnerable to calcium deficiencies.
11. BONUS - Increasing levels of environmental pollution in our air, water and food may cause our bodies to use more nutrients than normal to detoxify and eliminate harmful substances. This is especially true of the antioxidant vitamins, some of which include: the “ACE Vitamins:” Vitamins A, C, and E.

Do yourself a favor and take your Multi Vitamins.
Yours in health,
Robert J DeVito

Does being "in shape" make you fit to give fitness advice?

If someone has a friend who is in good shape, who is willing to give them exercise advice, why is it still a good idea to hire a personal trainer?

Often, very fit people are individuals who have added workouts as part of their lifestyle (long-term). This is usually a very good thing. However, what often occurs is that fit people develop beliefs in relation to which exercises are "good" exercises or "bad" exercises, which ones "work" or "do not work" etc... If this advice is being passed on to a healthy and fit individual that is not prone to injury and if the new exerciser takes caution to properly progress their training program, then in most cases the recommended exercises will be useful (minimally, it will not be detrimental) for that individual.

Your friends can only teach you what worked for THEM!

More often than not though, the avid exerciser simply passes on "rules" that they have memorized that have served THEM in reaching their goals. 

Caution! Many people achieve high levels of fitness not because of what they do, but in spite of it.

Often, a new exerciser will need to hire a Professional Trainer to properly assess their goals, needs and skill level and design a variable and progressive program that will keep this individual engaged, injury free and progressing toward their goal. Each person has lifestlye needs that differ and physiological needs that need uncovereing. These challenges should be considered when designing the appropriate program for them.

Simply put, there is no substitution for the assessment and coaching a trainer can give to an individual. Because someone is fit in NO WAY qualifies them to create a fitness program for you.  That is akin to someone with nice teeth becoming your Dentist...

Good friend. Bad Trainer.  Seek guidance that is appropriate for you.

In most cases your friends have the best intentions in the world.  Proceed cautiously.  They are most likely training incorrectly for their goal(s) too.  Most gym goers just copy what the person next to them is doing or follow what the person that they want to look like most is doing (this is called 'Emulation of Winners').  This is not a very wise action plan.  That person probably has different parents than you :) so their genetics and body shape are different, they most likely live a different lifestyle and they have been much more consistent with fitness than you.  You probably need a fitness plan that is COMPLETELY different than what they are doing.

Check this out for guidance on INTENSE Exercise.
Review this for the Newbies


Yours in health,
Robert J DeVito