Personal trainer effective? How long did you work with them?

[Anonymous]

Mine tried to kill me.

[Anonymous]

I had a trainer who was effective at first, but then his focus on our sessions took a rapid decline. He was sending text messages during sessions, stepped outside during a session to make a phone call, would watch TV on the gym televisions and count my reps incorrectly, would frequently arrive late...there were SO many issues.

I would have stopped seeing him a lot sooner, but I had to pay for sessions up front and I didn't want to lose out on the money.

Did I learn some things? Yes.
Was it worth the money I spent? Absolutely not. I should have stopped after the initial 12 sessions.

...sorry, I'm a little bitter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How much do they typically cost?

$90 session typically

My trainer (B.A. in Kinesiology, certified, experience in rehab, etc) cost me about 65/session. There is a lot of variation.

i've been using a trainer for a year and a half. worth every penny. When I started, my feet were in so much pain I had to do modified, low-impact jumping jacks. Now I do box jumps, run, heavy squats, etc.

Slowly but surely, my body fat % dropped from 39 to 25 and I lost 40 pounds. I work out five days a week, one day with the trainer (at the beginning, just 3 days a week, 1 with trainer...and gradually increased the # of workouts).

What did you do to fix your feet? Signed, someone with horrible feet that make her not want to jump

1 - Get the right diagnosis. After a year of pain, turned out i had arthritis.
2 - startd with physical therapy, PT noticed some muscle imbalances in my hips. I got orthotics, too, but stoppd using thm after a few months.
3. Starting with trainer after physical therapy....did a lot of balance work, continued to work on muscle imbalance and inflexibility. Also did exercises for small muscles in my feet.

I think losing some weight helped, but wasn't totally crucial.

[Anonymous]

it really depends on the effort you put in while work with the trainer and while on your own. You meet with them 1-2 hrs a week. So you still need to take care of yourself the other 166 hrs. This means working out some on your own and any good trainer should be giving you "homework." It also means getting your diert in check because you can not and will not ever out train a bad diet.

Now one big benefit to a good trainer is the accountability. I found that knowing I was accountable kept me honest with my diet and workouts. So I saw great results and learned a lot from working with a trainer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a trainer who was effective at first, but then his focus on our sessions took a rapid decline. He was sending text messages during sessions, stepped outside during a session to make a phone call, would watch TV on the gym televisions and count my reps incorrectly, would frequently arrive late...there were SO many issues.

I would have stopped seeing him a lot sooner, but I had to pay for sessions up front and I didn't want to lose out on the money.

Did I learn some things? Yes.
Was it worth the money I spent? Absolutely not. I should have stopped after the initial 12 sessions.

...sorry, I'm a little bitter.

You definitely have to find a good trainer and there are wonderful traienrs out there, even at some of the big box gyms. In your sitaution you should have spoken up and called the traienr out on their behavior or made a complaint to they gym.