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Why Hire A Personal Trainer.. why hire Trainer Jo?

Currently there are no government regulations on who can become a trainer and practice the craft of fitness training in the US. Your 17 year old son can put up a website and solicit a few overweight people and claim to be a trainer; that is perfectly legal. But what does being a personal trainer really mean?  Why is finding a suitable trainer ,both in knowledge and in personalitiy, so important?

First off, anyone can throw together a few exercises on a sheet of paper, meet you a few times a week and count your reps. But since the vast majority of people who seek out personal trainers have a goal in mind (#1 is to lose weight), you will want to find a trainer who is adept in helping you attain that goal.  Weight loss is much more than an hour on the treadmill and a few tosses of freeweights at the gym. There is a whole lifestyle change that must be addressed.  The strategically timed meals along with the strategically aligned workout programs are what it takes to reach those goals. 

Trainer Jo is more than just a trainer. She is more than some former athlete who decided she wanted to don a pair of yoga pants and tank top and strut around in the gym to show off her physique.  Josephine has been involved in the fitness world since 1987 at the tender age of 14.  And now in her 30s it has become her life goal to help people reach their weight loss goals whole learning about the world of fitness and a fitness lifestyle.  Not also does she love to teach fitness, she also loves loves loves to help people reach goals. Trainer Jo is not successful unless her clients are successful and happy with their success. And Trainer Jo is only happy when her clients are happy.

When you first meet with Trainer Jo, she will ask you a few questions about your current habits, your current diet and workout strategy. She will determine if your goals are rational and if she can be of service to you with or without the direction of a physician or other professional. She will then assess what changes need to be made and what program to recommend. 

Typically, private training in your home is about $60.00 hour prepaid in monthly installments.  Trainer Jo will supply all the small apparatii while the larger equipment would be recommended for you to purchase (universal systems, bench, olympic bars, dumbbells over 10 lbs, BOSU, etc).

When your write the check or sign that credit card receipt, Trainer Jo will then put you on  a set schedule and plan out your next session which will be to take all measurements to assess your current condition.  Your bodyfat will be estimated as well.  After that, you will be advised of your grocery list... go shopping ! ! !

Your next session, prepare to learn how intense you should be already have been training.  All the holes in your former strategy will be filled. All your questions will be answered.  Any gaps will be narrowed. And your program will be fine tuned to optimally burn off as much fat as possible without damaging your lifestyle or your metabolism.  Prepare for results ! ! !

 Sources Cited

(1)  Frankenfield, D., Roth-Yousey, and C. Compher, Comparison of Predictive Equations for Resting Metabolic Rate in Healthy Nonobese and Obese Adults: A Systematic Review. J Am Diet Assoc., 2005. 105: p. 775-789)

FACT 2
Cardio in the "fat burning mode" is NOT efficient for overall fat loss !
Performing cardio in a very light intensity (within the fat burning range as indicated on most cardio machine interfaces) may burn off a higher percentage of fat per total calories, but the total calories burned is nowhere near the amount necessary to see efficient change in bodyfat levels. 

Let's do the math.
Let's say you walk 3.0 MPH on the treadmill, placing you in the "fat burning" range,
but you only burn off 250 calories per hour. Your percentage of fat burned is 50%. That's only 125 calories of fat. If you did this every day for a week, you'd only burn off 875 calories of fat (of the 1750 burned total... to burn off 1 pound of fat, you need to burn off a total of 3500 calories).   If you were to up that speed and jog at a 5.5 MPH, placing you in the "cardio range", you might burn off 600 calories in an hour. But only 20% came from fat.  You'd still be burning off 120 calories from fat per workout or 700 per week  (4200 calories total per week).. it is the overall number of calories burned that is most important.

Truth is, it is not the amount of fat you burn per workout that counts, it is the total calories burned and the caloric deficit you are in, that determines actual fat loss.  And the higher the intensity your cardio is, the more you burn AFTER your workout. This is called the "afterburn". Higher intensity cardios can raise your metabolism for up to 24 hours after your cardio. Another reason why to up the intensity !

It has been recently shown that cardio intervals are more efficient in burning off overall bodyfat without sacrificing lean body mass.  A 30 minute session consisting of 2 minutes of high intensity bursts followed by 1 to 2 minutes of low intensity recovery, burns off more fat overall due to the dramatic increase in the afterburn effect. This explains why sprinters have low body fat levels and higher lean body mass.

If you need a visual..... spend an hour on a piece of cardio equipment in the back of the cardio room. Which exercisers are leaner?  The lazy treadmill walkers or the ones putting in more effort?