en-us New articles added to FindMyTrainer. http://www.findmytrainer.com http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-26.php http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-26.php Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 FindMyTrainer.com Do you feel like you are in a never-ending struggle with your waistline? Is the battle to lose weight always a battle you end up surrendering to? Weight loss may seem like rocket science to you, but there are people who specialize in weight loss and are eager for you to find them. Join forces with them and let them guide you along your weight loss path. What is better than you finding them? Let a Find My Trainer Personal Trainer find them for you. If you thought finding the right Personal Trainer was just as hard as losing the weight then think again! FindMyTrainer searches for you. Just tell us what you are looking for and then get on with your life. We will take it from here. Weight loss is the top fitness goal. Whether it is for health reasons or you just want to drop a few sizes, getting the results you desire is key to not surrendering to the battle. There are so many ways to lose weight these days. You can take a pill, have a surgery, go on a diet, or exercise. You may be looking for rapid weight loss, or maybe you want to do it more naturally and lose weight slowly over a longer period of time. How much weight you lose depends directly on your dedication to your program. Our service has helped people to lose weight and improve their life with the help of a Personal Trainer. Do you have a hard time adhering to a program no matter what it is? Get a Personal Trainer! A Personal Trainer will give you weight loss tips, as well as design programs that are specific to your weight loss goals. There is no magic pill, unless you like your pills in the form of a trainer. Need accountability? A real Professional Fitness Trainer can make you are holding yourself accountable for the decisions you make, such as the piece of cake you had for breakfast after your child\'s birthday party. Healthy weight loss is always the best way to go and results in the highest adherence and longevity. Many times fast weight loss, quick weight loss, or rapid weight loss will comeback to you once you stop your program. A Personal Trainer can put you on a maintenance program so that you can realistically stick to your fitness and nutritional program. Let that trainer get into your head and mentally slap your hand out of the cookie jar or force you to do that last exercise. Who knows? You may even like it. FindMyTrainer will find that Personal Trainer who can motivate and inspire you to get to your weight loss goals. Hey, losing weight is hard enough. Let us search for your perfect personal trainer. Find a Personal Trainer in your area today! http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-27.php http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-27.php Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 FindMyTrainer.com Are you looking to make a change in a \"Big\" way? Is that change fitness related and you don\'t know where to start? Start by having the right Personal Trainer hand selected for you and your specific goals. FindMyTrainer does just that for you and your health goals. All our Fitness Trainers are Pre-Screened, Certified, and Insured. There are many goals specific to each individual and all of those are taken in to consideration when we look for your perfect Personal Trainer. Is one of your goals to learn how to build up muscle? Building muscle is one of the three components to total body fitness. The other two being cardiovascular exercise and nutrition. You must build muscle to lose fat if weight loss if one of your fitness goals. Building muscle, or lean body mass, is important for more reasons that just decreasing body fat. Muscle is the body\'s machinery, and the more muscle mass you have, the more efficient your body is at burning calories and, in turn, losing body fat. All three components of exercise together are what it going to get you the body you desire and deserve. Find a Personal Trainer now that can help you to reach your fitness goals. You can build muscle by strength training with weights at a gym, or you can build muscle at home. You do not need traditional weights to build muscle. You can use your own bodyweight to build muscle. It is important that you know how to build up muscle mass properly. It is easy to injure yourself while strength training if you do no know the proper technique or are not familiar with the proper weights for your strength level. The best way to know that you are training properly is to consult a fitness professional who can assess your strength and build a program for you according to your goals and needs. Our Personal Trainers specialize in specific areas, even building muscle! If you goal is to learn how to build chest muscle, a trainer can help you with that. Many people hire a Personal Trainer to help them lose weight. Muscle takes up less space than fat, so it is possible to gain weight when first beginning a strength training program, even though you look and feel like you have lost weight. Once your body has adapted to this new program, let the fat burning begin! You body is now a machine and can\'t wait to get you to where you want to be. FindMyTrainer can provide you with a Fitness Trainer who has the knowledge, expertise, and motivation to get your machine up and running! Finding a Personal Trainer that specific to your needs is the number one most important part of any fitness routine. Find My Trainer can help you search through the sea of trainers to find the one who is in your area, who is exactly what you are looking for. Get ahead of the game and find the trainer who is right for you. Building muscle is important no matter who you are or what your goals are, so let FindMyTrainer help you help yourself. Find a Personal Trainer and build your muscle. http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-28.php http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-28.php Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 FindMyTrainer.com Have you recently injured yourself or had a surgery? Can you feel the muscles in your body losing strength? Are you afraid to try to strengthen those muscles yourself for fear of re-injury? Physical Therapy can only take you so far, and then what? It is up to you to figure out what to do? Let a FindMyTrainer Personal Trainer help you find someone who can answer all your questions and guide you through an effective post-rehab exercise program that is specific to your injury or surgery rehabilitation. Unfortunately there are no warranties or guarantees for our body parts, and ultimately they will wear out. Maybe you have had a knee replacement or a hip replacement. Maybe you have had a rotator cuff surgery. Whatever your surgery or injury, a FindMyTrainer Fitness Trainer that specializes in your specific limitations is ready to begin working with you. Whether you blew your knee out skiing moguls or simply crashed on your bike and broke a wrist, there is a Personal Trainer waiting to help you. When you have an injury, it isn\'t just the muscles surrounding the injury site that become weak. It can be your entire leg or arm. Maybe you need to be in wheelchair, in which case your entire body will be feeling the effects. If you were ordered to be on crutches or use a cane, one side of your body will always be compensating for the rest of your life unless you strengthen properly and equally. Finding a Personal Trainer who can rehabilitate your entire body while paying specific attention to your needs is the best way to recovery fully from any physical injury in any case. Personal Training is an excellent way to rehabilitate yourself! It is important to find a Personal Trainer who specializes in hip replacements, knee replacements, bone injuries, shoulder injuries, foot injuries, or whatever injury or surgery you may have had. There are many exercises that she be avoided as well as performed for each individual case. Let FindMyTrainer connect you with a Personal Trainer who will help and not further injure you. All you have to do is tell us what your specific injury was, or is, and we can search our database or professional personal trainers and find the one who is perfect for you. Even if you are currently in physical therapy, it is good to find the person who is going to continue building your strength once your insurance on physical therapy runs out. You continue healing; FindMyTrainer will find a Personal Trainer who can assist you in your ongoing quest for optimal health. Complete a form and see how Find My Trainer can match you with a Personal Trainer that can help you today. http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-29.php http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-29.php Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 FindMyTrainer.com Do you have difficulty putting on your socks, or bending over to pick something up off the floor? Do you get lower back pain or have difficulty reaching things overhead? Your problem may be a lack of flexibility. Flexibility is defined as the range of motion about a joint. There are three factors that determine your flexibility; Flexibility of the tendons and ligaments, flexibility of the muscles, and anatomical structure of the joint itself. The only thing that we can change in this series is the flexibility of the muscles. Stretching is very important when beginning a fitness program. There is a tightness associated with starting any strength training program which needs to be offset by proper stretching. It is important to make sure that you are performing proper stretches correctly and safely. Finding a Personal Trainer who can show you the proper stretching will be beneficial to you and your health. Flexibility is something that will continue to decrease with age if you do not work on it. Your body is a series of checks and balances, and if you are tight in one place, it is most likely causing you pain in another. Keeping your hamstrings flexible is important in lower back pain. Also, keeping the entire pelvic region loose and flexible will also help improve low back pain. If your chest muscles are tight, they can draw your shoulders in and make your posture bad. If you want to improve your posture, you should work on your chest and upper body flexibility. FindMyTrainer can find you a Personal Trainer who is informed on flexibility techniques and can also test your flexibility to see which muscles and areas in your body need the most stretching. Flexibility can be lost post surgery. After a back, knee, or shoulder surgery, there will be losses in ranges of motion. It is important to get that flexibility back so that you can get yourself back to your pre-surgery optimum state. If you have had shoulder or rotator cuff surgery, it is extremely important to work on range of motion so that you don\'t get frozen shoulder. Frozen shoulder is the ultimate portrayal of loss of flexibility and takes months to recover from. It is essential to find a personal trainer who is educated in the surgery that you have had so that they can properly assist your stretching to help facilitate your recovery. You may not be ready for a fitness program involving strength training however; you can have a Personal Trainer come to your home to stretch you. FindMyTrainer has the perfect Fitness Trainer for you. It is imperative that flexibility be increased and maintained throughout our lives. Whether you want to try yoga or just want someone to assist you with passive flexibility, FindMyTrainer can connect you with the Personal Trainer to help you attain your fitness goals to increase flexibility. Don\'t stress and tighten up those muscles more, just tell us what you are looking for and FindMyTrainer will deliver. Don\'t spend another day wondering when things will change, complete a form and let a Personal Trainer help you change your lifestyle. Get started with one of our Pre-Screened, Certified, and Insured Personal Trainers today! http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-30.php http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-30.php Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 FindMyTrainer.com Do you ever set out for a long walk with the best of intentions, yet turn back half way because you are too tired to continue? Have you ever made plans with your friends after work, yet once the work day is done all you can think about is going to bed? Sounds like your overall endurance is lacking. Starting a fitness program can help you increase your overall endurance and give you more energy. If you are having trouble finding the energy and endurance to even start a fitness program or find a Personal Trainer, FindMyTrainer has already done that for you. All our Fitness Trainers are Pre-Screened, Certified, and Insured. We only work with the best Personal Trainers from each area that area hand picked. Get a Personal Trainer today and reach your fitness goals quicker! It is important that you have the proper endurance for whatever you may be taking on in your life. If you are training for a marathon and can\'t quite seem to kick it into gear after mile 20, you may want to enlist the help of a personal trainer. A Personal Trainer can help you build the proper muscles to help specifically with marathons. Building muscle mass can significantly help increase endurance. Muscular endurance is a measure of how many times the muscle can contract over a period of time, and can be trained and maintained with regular exercise. Muscles adapt to an increase in workload by becoming larger and stronger, and by gaining an increased endurance. FindMyTrainer has local Fitness Trainer who specializes in increasing overall endurance, thus reviving your energy. Save your energy for your workouts, you are going to need it. If you wake up each day more tired than the previous, the \"battery\" that runs your body is running out of charge. Once you get your body running, that battery will continuously recharge itself creating more sustained energy. If you are having trouble getting your body running at all, finding a personal trainer online can be the first step. A FindMyTrainer Personal Trainer from your area and knows how tired you are and and wants to help you kick your fatigue once and for all. Local Fitness Trainers are available and waiting for you to make the decision that you want to have the endurance to get through an entire day without 6 cups of coffee. Let the endorphins released while exercising be your caffeine. Energy in it\'s purest form is waiting for you to call upon it. http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-31.php http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-31.php Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 FindMyTrainer.com Does your last bad physical results haunt you? We some of the statistics the doctor gave you less than desirable? Was exercise something recommended by the doctor? Whether your report stated hypertension, too much \"bad\" and not enough \"good\" cholesterol, overweight, diabetes or decreased lung capacity, exercise can help. Finding a personal trainer who knows how to deal with the afore mentioned conditions is key to safe and effective exercise. The Find My Trainer Personal Trainer service will help you to improve your overall health. Get started with one of our Pre-Screened, Certified, and Insured Personal Trainers today! • Insomnia is a problem for many people. Exercise can help you fall asleep faster and sleep deeper. Also, the time of day that you exercise can affect you sleeping patterns so find a personal trainer to help you fit exercise into your busy schedule. • Diabetes is a wide spread endemic in the United States. It is beneficial for those with both Type I and Type II Diabetes to exercise. It is especially important for those with Type II Diabetes. Exercise can make your body more responsive to insulin, thus lowering glucose levels. Exercise can also help you lose weight which is very important in diabetes management. Local Personal Trainers can be found who specialize in diabetes and exercise. It is important to make sure that your fitness trainer is educated on your limitations. Have a FindMyTrainer Personal Trainer who is ready to assist you in making some healthy lifestyle changes. • Exercise can also help with hypertension, or high blood pressure. Regular physical activity can lower the systolic and diastolic blood pressure by reducing the workload on the heart and increasing the ability of the blood to carry oxygen to tissues. It is important to work within you blood pressure limitations. There are Personal Trainers who know exactly how to help you and what type of personal training program to put you on in order to manage your hypertension. FindMyTrainer has local Personal Trainers eager to work with you. • Osteoporosis is a main concern as we age, especially for women. A weight of 126 pounds or less is considered a risk factor for osteoporosis. The strength of your bones is directly dependent on the stress you put on them. Weight training is a great way to increase the density of your bones. There are many things to also avoid if you have osteoporosis so having a personal trainer to guide you is essential in you safety. FindMyTrainer has Personal Trainer in our Personal Trainer Network who is educated on osteoporosis and can help manage and improve your condition. They are all Pre-Screened, Certified, and Insured. We make sure that you only get the best Fitness Trainers from your area! Maybe you have a combination of a few of the afore mentioned conditions or all of them. Exercise is important in improving your overall health no matter your physical state. Let FindMyTrainer get you started along a new healthy path. All you have to do is contact us and we will find the perfect trainer for you and you desire to improve your overall health. Start today, your health awaits you. Use Find My Trainer to help you improve your overall fitness today. http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-32.php http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-32.php Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 FindMyTrainer.com Are you looking to shave a few minutes off your marathon time? Do you want to be able to last your entire soccer game without fatigue? Maybe you just want to be able to run the bases in your softball league without being out of breath. Hiring a Personal Trainer to assist you in a sports specific exercise routine could be your answer. FindMyTrainer can connect you with a Personal Trainer who understands your sport and want to show you how to increase your sports performance. Using our Personal Training service will match you with a Personal Trainer that can design an exercise program that is specific to the sport you would like to improve your performance in. All our Personal Trainers have excelled beyond the average personal trainers in the industry. We only bring the best Personal Trainers into our Personal Trainer Network to help people like you improve their sports performance. The answer on how to increase your sports performance depends directly on what sport you are looking to improve. Each sports recruits different muscles in different planes of movement and it is crucial that a Personal Trainer know this information in order to maximize your desired results. There are sport specific exercises that can increase performance in golf, tennis, surfing, running, soccer, basketball, water skiing, football, lacrosse, and any other sport you might participate in. Balance is an important part of any sport. There are many new balance devices that can be used in personal training to simulate a specific sport or an unexpected obstacle. Many personal trainers utilize these balance devices in what is called functional training. Functional training is designed to increase strength in a way that is functional to your life. If you surf, the is is functional for you to work on your lateral balance. If you are a gymnast, it is functional for you to work on your single leg balance. Balance work is beneficial no mater the sport you participate in. FindMyTrainer can connect you with a local Personal Trainer who can help you work on your balance. Improving sports performance is important for the seasoned athlete as well as the inter mural or league athlete. Finding a personal trainer who can build your strength specific to your sport is also key to keeping injury free. Avoid injuries buy training the specific muscles and ranges of motion associated with your sport. Don\'t take time away from your game or practice to find a personal trainer, let FindMyTrainer do it for you. Use our service to find a Personal Trainer in your area. Get started with one of our Pre-Screened, Certified, and Insured Personal Trainers today! http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-33.php http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-33.php Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 FindMyTrainer.com One of the most common fitness myths is the idea of spot reduction. Spot reduction means decreasing body fat in one area of the body by repeatedly stimulating that area only. The marketing of products for the abdominals, thighs, and buttocks compose the majority of spot reduction fitness gimmicks. Television and Internet are continuously flooded with new products claiming their use to be the only thing you need to get your body in the condition you desire. Some of these products can be helpful when used in conjunction with proper nutrition as well as supplemental exercise. Let’s visit the main area of concern for most people, the abdominal area. Many people would list this area as their problem area or the area they would most like to improve. Six pack abs and flat stomachs grace the covers of all types of magazines. Only training the abdominals will not produce these desired results. The abdominals run from the thorax to the pelvis and consist of 5 muscle groups. These 5 groups are the external obliques, internal obliques, transverse abdominis, rectus abdominis, and the pyramidalis. These muscles are extremely important in core stabilization as well as posture, so they should be trained. However, training the abdominal muscles should be part of a well balanced full body exercise routine. Most goals are geared towards losing body fat, and the human body loses this fat as a whole and not one part at a time. The places where your body holds fat are genetically pre-determined. Some people may always have a flat stomach and larger arms while others may always have toned arms and a large stomach. In general, the place where you first started to gain extra body fat will be the last place it decreases, and the most recent places you have gained body fat will be the first to decrease. For women, they tend to lose body fat first in the arms or legs and last in the abdomen. Men are the same in that the abdomen is usually the last place for the fat to disappear from. Decreasing your overall body fat with proper exercise and nutrition is the only way to affect these problem areas. Another thing to keep in mind is that the closer you become to your body fat goals, the more hard work you will have to put in with your fitness. In order to diminish those pesky fat cells in the places you want the most, dedication and discipline are required. It is important to keep your muscles strong so do train them individually to develop strength and power and keep your cardiovascular fitness and nutrition in the forefront of your mind while adhering to your body fat loss program. http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-34.php http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-34.php Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 FindMyTrainer.com Childhood and adolescent obesity rates have tripled since 1970s and although the rates have leveled off, childhood obesity still poses a serious health risk. According to a report from the American Medical Association, over 15 percent of children are obese; over 30 percent are overweight or obese; and over 10 percent are classified as severely obese. For the first time children are not expected to live as long of lives as their parents have lived because of the growing epidemic. Much federal attention has been given to the issue with Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign and the U.S.D.A. funding more prevention programs than ever before, but the most beneficial prevention and treatment of childhood obesity remains to be within the family. The causes of childhood obesity have been attributed to a variety of factors that include genetics and developmental factors, but the strongest links are the behavioral and environmental factors: diet and exercise. Although no one can argue that diet and exercise play the most important roles in weight management, the issue of childhood obesity is shying away from focusing on the child and focusing more on the family. James Baldwin, a famous American novelist, summed it up when he wrote, “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” Obesity is a family issue, not a child’s issue. It is never a child’s fault. Our faster paced lifestyles and more sedentary behaviors have left us less time for meal preparation, less opportunity for family meals and less time for family exercise. What is now deemed an “obesogenic” environment encourages over-consumption of less nutritious foods, discourages exercise and encourages sedentary time. These lifestyle changes are the fundamental cause of the childhood obesity epidemic. The health consequences of childhood obesity include chronic issues once only associated with adults and include: cardiovascular disease, cancer, arthritis and diabetes. The importance of acquiring an exercise specialist and a dietitian has never been greater since diet and exercise can help families prevent medical issues. A certified personal trainer can specifically address individual issues and plan exercise for the entire family. In addition, a registered dietitian can provide the specific diet plans needed for the entire family to learn to cook and eat for disease prevention. To boot, both diet and exercise specialists provide the motivation for disease prevention. http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-35.php http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-35.php Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 FindMyTrainer.com Diabetes is a metabolic disease that has become well known in the last ten years as Americans have grown accustomed to an unhealthy diet and lack of exercise. According to the American Diabetes Association, almost 24 million U.S. citizens have been diagnosed with diabetes. Type I Diabetes affects approximately only five percent of those diagnosed with diabetes and is unpreventable with patients injecting insulin as they do not produce it. Type II Diabetes affects the other 95 percent and is associated mostly with poor diet and lack of exercise. To break it down more simply: Insulin is a hormone and its primary purpose is to get blood sugar from the blood into our bodies’ cells for energy. Without this properly functioning “lock-and-key” system between blood sugar, insulin and our bodies’ cells, diabetes develops. If Type II diabetes is not controlled with diet and exercise, and in a lot of cases with medication, severe medical complications can occur and include: blindness, nerve damage, amputation, kidney failure, and heart failure. Although diabetes in irreversible and Type I diabetes will always require exogenous insulin, Type II diabetes is preventable and manageable with diet and exercise. Diet and exercise are the two most important players in the fight against diabetes. Diet is one of the major factors influencing the severity of diabetes. As stated, blood sugar is the energy that our cells need and is derived from the carbohydrate foods we eat. Our diets determine our blood sugar. A healthy diet helps regulate blood sugar due to the way it is slowly broken down due to healthy foods inherent structural properties. An unhealthy diet can force our blood sugar to go awry because these foods are quickly broken down, due to the processing these foods undergo, and raise and lower our blood sugar to dangerous levels. Blood sugar can be regulated with a diet plan that is specifically formulated for a certain carbohydrate percentage intake. With the help of a registered dietitian, one who is specifically educated in meal planning, diabetes can be prevented and managed with diet. Exercise plays an important role by helping the cells receive the insulin they need. More specifically, exercise helps blood sugar into the cells by making the cell more insulin-friendly. Although any exercise is important in managing diabetes, it is extremely important to seek the guidance of an exercise specialist because exercise can drop blood sugar levels dangerously low. An exercise expert can devise an exercise plan and monitor health-related consequences. Furthermore, an exercise specialist will help prevent diabetes-related health conditions, like heart disease, by promoting weight loss and strength training. In short, diet and exercise professionals are key players in helping prevent and manage diabetes. http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-36.php http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-36.php Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 FindMyTrainer.com For the individual that wants to build muscle, get healthier, and lose weight in the process, dieting and working out on their own can be extremely challenging. If you have attempted this on your own and failed repeatedly, you should consider hiring an in-home personal trainer. These professionals are highly experienced and very knowledgeable when it comes to setting a program that will enable you to learn proper exercise techniques and meeting your long-range fitness and weight loss goals. Knowing what to look for in an in-home fitness trainer Finding the right trainer can be a challenging task as there are numerous facilities offering their services, especially when you search online. The following characteristics are what you should look for if you want to know how to choose the right in-home personal trainer: Attention - always look for a personal trainer who makes you the focal point of every workout session, not your surroundings. It will be difficult for you to remain focused if they don't. CPR - most people overlook this and yet we feel it is extremely important. A trainer that keeps a current CPR certification is beneficial to you for the obvious reason. Education - make sure that the person you hire has been certified in personal training through a reputable fitness organization. Although a college degree is not necessary as a selling point, if they do have one that is even better. Experience - this is critical whenever you are looking for a professional that provides a service. There is a greater likelihood that you will achieve success and reach your goals when hiring an in-home personal trainer with several years of experience under their belts. A good listener - another overlooked aspect is how good of a listener your trainer is. They will always listen to what you have to say so that they understand your goals and keep you focused on them. Specifics - make sure that your personal trainer is aware of any condition, injury, or medical problem that may exist (e.g. cardiovascular issues, diabetes, pregnancy, etc.) and are able to work with your physician. Tracking your progress - the best in-home personal trainer will know how to monitor and track your progress while teaching you how to do this as well. Remember first and foremost that a trainer will give you the opportunity to achieve your goals so you definitely want to hire one that is reliable and trustworthy. http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-37.php http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-37.php Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 FindMyTrainer.com It seems everyone is under a time crunch these days. Incorporating your fitness routine can require scheduling and requires strict adherence to get results. Often quality is sacrificed to keep within a certain time window. Working with a personal trainer can help to increase the efficiency of your workout, decrease risk of injury, increase motivation and success levels, and offer all of these things at a scheduled time that works with your schedule. Fitness is an important component of a healthy lifestyle and it seems these days everyone has suggestions on the best way to incorporate it into their schedule. The fitness industry is continuously evolving and scientific breakthroughs are happening all the time that change the standards and push the limits. The average person has enough things on their plate that they do not have time to keep up to date on the latest fitness news, trends, and devices. A personal trainer will learn all this knowledge for you. Certified personal trainers are required to complete minimum amounts of continuing education in order to maintain their certifications. A current personal training certification should be required of anyone you trust your health to. Educated personal trainers can design programs that are specific to your body type as well as your individual goals. No two bodies are the same and great trainers understand that. All exercises are not great for all people. Programs are also designed keeping your schedule in mind as to the frequency of your visits and if you are doing other fitness related things as well. Improper use of exercise equipment accounts for many injuries each year. Improper form on exercises also accounts for many injuries. We are all going to the gym to get healthy and strong. A strained back from a squat gone awry will get you nowhere fast. A good personal trainer will set all equipment up for you including loading the weights and adjusting and seats or handles. With the machines on the proper settings, you can focus on the form of the exercise. Having your equipment preset for your settings is a huge time saver. We all want success in our fitness routines. We all go into each new health adventure with the best of intentions and in high spirits. This gung-ho attitude usually fades away and with it often do results. Having a personal trainer to track your results and show you exactly how much progress you are making can help immensely with feelings of accomplishment. Offering encouragement to finish your sprints or that last lunge is an essential trait of a good personal trainer. Motivated exercises have a higher tendency to adhere to their fitness routines. Finding the time in your schedule for fitness is hard enough. Hiring a certified personal trainer can help your manage the time you have allowed yourself. Feeling good about your efforts as well as your strength will keep you motivated into the future. It is all about trying to make the most out of �me� time. http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-38.php http://www.findmytrainer.com/article-38.php Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 FindMyTrainer.com Everyone knows that the fastest way to a better body is to hire a personal trainer who monitors your every move and does everything except slap the food out of your hand. Financial reasons, time constraints, or not finding a trainer who you trust can all affect your health outcomes. Breaking down the real costs of a personal trainer can help you decide whether or not hiring a trainer is the right choice for you. The cost of personal training has become more affordable in recent years. It used to be that no one was getting a workout with a personal trainer for less than a hundred dollars an hour. Times have changed. Trainers are making a real effort to fit into the budgets of their clients. Many trainers offer discounts for purchasing multiple sessions at a time as well as payment plans for packages. It is important to check with each trainer�s individual cancellation policies as well as refund policies. The average trainer is charging between 40 and 80 dollars per hour. Some charge more, some charge less. Certifications, degrees, specializations, location, willingness to travel as well as education are all things that factor into a trainer�s pricing schedule. Most gyms have personal trainers who are staffed for their patrons to hire. Often discounted personal training is offered in conjunction with memberships. Many people think that they do not have the time for a personal trainer. The truth is that time becomes way more efficient when working with a personal trainer. Personal trainers design your workout so you don�t have to spend time coming up with a plan or figuring out what to do once you get to the gym. They set up the equipment for you which at times can be half the battle if you aren�t familiar with the machines. A good personal trainer will be monitoring your form to decrease risk of injury while maximizing muscle usage in the proper way. There are personal trainers who will travel to you, decreasing even further the time you have to spend on your workout. If you like to exercise in the morning and don�t want to have to shower in a gym locker room before work, then the extra $10 per hour for a trainer to come to you can be priceless. Deciding what criteria you find important in a personal trainer can be time consuming. The most important things to look for in your trainer are a current nationally accredited personal training certification, personal liability insurance, and someone who practices what they preach. All nationally accredited personal training certifications require a minimum amount of continuing education in order to maintain and renew their certification. This means that every two years, which is standard, these minimum requirements must be met. This ensures that trainers are keeping up to date with the latest personal training standards and practices. This also makes sure that the trainer expands upon their education. Requiring insurance of your trainer is a must. No one goes into anything expecting to get injured, but should it happen, you want to be protected. The best trainers talk the talk and walk the walk. Someone who clearly is taking their own advice and practicing a healthy lifestyle will be someone you want to look up to and someone you trust with your own health. A local search on a personal trainer website can help to narrow your search and allow you to see all of the trainers who are in your area. This is one stop shopping for personal trainers as you can view all