What is Personal Training?

Personal Training is exactly as it sounds, a health and fitness educator that is available for you to use to help you reach your personal health and fitness aspirations. Whatever it is that you would like to achieve you will benefit from the expertise of a personal trainer who will monitor your health, fitness and nutritional habits and lead you in the right direction to help yourself. Personal Training at elite will not start and end with an instructor standing at the end of a treadmill giving the odd motivational remark.

Your program will be regularly monitored to aid progress, with your exercising techniques constantly observed to make sure that every time you train it is the most efficient and effective workout you could have had. In short, personal training is your own personal coach and educator that will help you get to where you want to be!

What will happen in a Personal Training session?

From personal training you can expect to be treated as an individual and your program of exercise will be tailored for you in this respect, therefore helping you reach your goals quicker and safer. The first sessions will be focused on finding your current health and fitness status and to start you on the road to your better lifestyle.

The sessions may use health and fitness testing procedures that will help both you and the personal trainer know where you are starting from and give you extra motivation when you see how far you have come since the beginning. Sessions thereon will be tailored to your needs and the personal trainer will constantly plan in advance how they are going to progress your training and help you to reach your goals.

What can a Personal Trainer help me with?

Whatever your goals are, a personal trainer will be able to help. Your goals may be to lose weight, run a long distance race, build muscle, become better at a chosen sport, or just to be able to feel healthier and fitter. All of these can be addressed by a personal trainer and a program of exercise written personally for you with your own unique needs, wants, limitations and conditions being the main building blocks of the plan. A personal trainer will also address things that you may not have even considered important in your new and improved healthy lifestyle.

These may include muscle imbalances, posture correction, flexibility issues arising from every day occupational stresses and strains, or it could just be the fact that you have been diagnosed with a health complaint such as high blood pressure or may be pregnant and are not sure how to exercise and keep safe.

Is Personal Training just for people starting out?

Not at all. Personal Training can benefit everybody. Yes, Personal Training is a fantastic way to get you started in the daunting atmosphere that can be perceived in a health and fitness environment. But also, everybody from time to time needs that extra bit of advice that is specific to their own needs and aspirations. A Personal Trainer, within the boundaries of their own professional competence, can help anybody and even if they don't have all the answers they will know somebody who does!

How many sessions should I have?

Sessions will totally be dependant upon the individual and at no time will the client be expected to sign anything to say that they will have to commit to an agreed number of sessions. Obviously the more times you meet with your personal trainer the more you will benefit, but again this is totally up to the individual. Whether it is twice a week, once a week, once a fortnight or once a month, you will benefit from having the support of a fully qualified individual that will want you to reach your goals as much as you do.

The final point being, its going to be fun and educational, the more you lean the more positive you will be, the more positive you are the better fun you will have and remember once you have achieved your goal, it doesn’t mean you cant set yourself another.