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While standing in line at your local grocery store, you read about the stars who spend thousands of dollars on fitness trainers who mold bodies into divas and studs for upcoming performances. Personal trainers are famous for performing award-winning actions to firm bodies quickly with amazing results for prizefighters, action heroes, and models, but a good fitness trainer can do that for you too. For example, one of Shirley’s training clients — a woman in her 30s — lost 20 pounds in just 3 months of supervised exercise.
Perfecting your technique
A trainer can offer subtle pointers to improve your weight lifting form. Even if you do your best to follow instructions like, “Keep your arm parallel to the floor,” you may not be able to tell whether your arm is in precisely the right position. After you know what it feels like to correctly perform an exercise, you’re likely to keep using good techniques when you’re on your own.
Showing you alternative exercises
A trainer can help you build on the exercises in this book, showing you additional moves that meet your specific needs and preferences. If you’re pregnant, a trainer can show you how to perform abdominal exercises without lying on your back and hamstring exercises without lying on your stomach. If you suffer from arthritis, a personal trainer can show you how to stretch and strengthen your muscles while alleviating some pain and fatigue.
Introducing you to the equipment
Each brand of equipment has its own quirks. The seat adjustment for one lat pulldown machine (see Chapter 11 for a description) may work by a different mechanism than it does for another, even though the machines strengthen your back muscles in the same way. A trainer can tell you about the intricacies of each machine in your health club or home gym.
Designing or updating your program
If you wanted to, you could come up with a new routine every day for the rest of your life. A trainer can help you expand on our workout suggestions and design routines that fit your specific schedule, whether you work out 3 days a week for 20 minutes or twice a week for an hour. For example, many of Shirley’s training clients are executives who travel frequently for business. She provides on-the-road-training plans, as well as airplane stretches to alleviate stiffness. Trainers also come in handy if you’re working toward a specific goal — preparing for ski season requires a different type of routine than getting ready for a backpacking vacation.
Keeping you motivated
Some people wouldn’t even consider getting out of bed, let alone lifting a weight, if they didn’t have a trainer standing over them saying, “Okay, Larry, ten shoulder presses, now!” Others manage with a motivational boost every month or two, working out on their own the rest of the time. And then some people rely so much on their trainers for inspiration that they actually bring them along on vacation.
While standing in line at your local grocery store, you read about the stars who spend thousands of dollars on fitness trainers who mold bodies into divas and studs for upcoming performances. Personal trainers are famous for performing award-winning actions to firm bodies quickly with amazing results for prizefighters, action heroes, and models, but a good fitness trainer can do that for you too. For example, one of Shirley’s training clients — a woman in her 30s — lost 20 pounds in just 3 months of supervised exercise.
Perfecting your technique
A trainer can offer subtle pointers to improve your weight lifting form. Even if you do your best to follow instructions like, “Keep your arm parallel to the floor,” you may not be able to tell whether your arm is in precisely the right position. After you know what it feels like to correctly perform an exercise, you’re likely to keep using good techniques when you’re on your own.
Showing you alternative exercises
A trainer can help you build on the exercises in this book, showing you additional moves that meet your specific needs and preferences. If you’re pregnant, a trainer can show you how to perform abdominal exercises without lying on your back and hamstring exercises without lying on your stomach. If you suffer from arthritis, a personal trainer can show you how to stretch and strengthen your muscles while alleviating some pain and fatigue.
Introducing you to the equipment
Each brand of equipment has its own quirks. The seat adjustment for one lat pulldown machine (see Chapter 11 for a description) may work by a different mechanism than it does for another, even though the machines strengthen your back muscles in the same way. A trainer can tell you about the intricacies of each machine in your health club or home gym.
Designing or updating your program
If you wanted to, you could come up with a new routine every day for the rest of your life. A trainer can help you expand on our workout suggestions and design routines that fit your specific schedule, whether you work out 3 days a week for 20 minutes or twice a week for an hour. For example, many of Shirley’s training clients are executives who travel frequently for business. She provides on-the-road-training plans, as well as airplane stretches to alleviate stiffness. Trainers also come in handy if you’re working toward a specific goal — preparing for ski season requires a different type of routine than getting ready for a backpacking vacation.
Keeping you motivated
Some people wouldn’t even consider getting out of bed, let alone lifting a weight, if they didn’t have a trainer standing over them saying, “Okay, Larry, ten shoulder presses, now!” Others manage with a motivational boost every month or two, working out on their own the rest of the time. And then some people rely so much on their trainers for inspiration that they actually bring them along on vacation.
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