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Why Work With a Personal Trainer?

By Liz Modrell

Working with a personal trainer can help you to achieve your goals. Whether you want to lose weight, build muscle, reshape your body, recover from an injury or improve your overall health and fitness, a personal trainer can help. A personal trainer will work with you one-on-one in the gym or in your home, creating and implementing a customized exercise and nutrition program based on your health and goals.

Personal trainers care deeply about their clients and are committed to helping you reach your goals. During your workouts you will receive undistracted attention and genuine concern for you and results you are working towards. You will learn how your body works, how to do exercises correctly to prevent injury and reach the desired outcome, how many exercises and repetitions, how much weight you should lift and what types of foods you should be eating. Personal trainers can help you with the total package.

Personal trainers work with men and women of all ages with varying fitness levels and goals, including housewives, retired individuals, executives, laborers and all individuals wanting to improve their appearance, fitness and self esteem.

A competent personal trainer will:

Before beginning your program with your trainer you will need to fill out a complete health history and determine your specific goals and why you want to achieve them. At your first session your personal trainer should perform an assessment including weight, measurements, body composition, and photos. Once the assessment is completed the personal trainer will spend time with you on strength training and cardio.

You will be working very close with your personal trainer so it is important to determine if you are a good match. You will be spending a few hours a week with your trainer, make sure it is someone you like.

About the Author:

Liz Modrell is a certified personal trainer with over 20 years experience working with those new to exercise, starting over, overweight and sedentary individuals in Burlington, IA and surrounding communities. Her website is http://www.uniquely-yours-personal-training.com