Do You Really Need A Personal Trainer?
Even the Material Girl needs a trainer to stay in shape
Do you need a personal trainer? Well, if you are serious about weight loss, improving your strength and overall fitness then I would say that you should indeed consider using the services of a good personal trainer, regardless of whether you are just starting off, or have been training for years. There is just so much that you can stand to learn from having a truly experienced personal trainer at your side that it is always a good investment.
My martial arts teacher always used to say that you should never seek to follow in the footsteps of successful men and women, but instead seek what they sought. Taking this into consideration, let’s take a look at the people that most hold up as having attained the perfect body.
For most women images of Angelina Jolie come to mind. As do others such as Madonna, Janet Jackson, Eva Langoria and Jessica Alba to name a few. These women grace the silver screen and pages of so many magazines with their toned and sleek bodies and yet even though many women would die to get themselves in such stellar shape they never really stop and ask ourselves how they are able to look so darned fantastic all the time.
L.L. Cool J doesn't look like this by accident- he has a trainer.
For the guys, Will Smith, Brad Pitt, L.L. Cool J., Christian Bale and immediately come to mind, and a lot of guys join the gym all fired up about trying to get themselves in that kind of shape, but fail despite their best efforts and using every supplement and weight loss formula under the sun.
But what do the stars have that everyone else don’t? You see impromptu photos of them off somewhere on vacation and they don’t look that, well, stellar. In fact sometimes they kind of look like everybody else, complete with flabby arms, sagging butts and pot bellies. However, no matter how badly they look before a movie role or concert, they always seem to pull it together for their public performances.
How do they do it? Is it a pill or magic potion? They definitely don’t follow the same diets everyone else does, or train they way everyone else does, because they get real results!
So coming back to my point on doing what successful people do to be successful, what do they all have in common? The answer is an experienced personal trainer. Think about it for a second, if you had to look really spectacular for a movie or a tour, one that would earn you several millions of dollars in income, are you going to leave your results to chance, or are you going to hire an expert that has been proven to be able to get people in shape consistently over the years?
The answer is an obvious one, and more often than you think highly experienced trainers are contracted to help some of your favorite stars into fighting shape (due to the nature of some of the contracts sometimes we are not allowed to disclose who we work with) but make no mistake that behind every buff body there is an veteran trainer overseeing both their diet and exercise program.
So there are no real secrets, and yet I am always amazed to see how much peoples invest in everything from fat supplements to liposuction to get in shape but are reluctant to hire an experienced personal trainer. Now a good one isn’t that easy to come by- and just because you are paying top dollar doesn’t guarantee that your trainer can really help you change your body. Always look for track record of success and equally important, your trainer should at least look like they belong on a magazine cover. Success follows success and you always want to work with trainers that practice what they preach.
With the right trainer, you can really realize your dreams and make a real and lasting difference in your body and your mind. It isn’t inexpensive, but then again, so is everything else in life that is worthwhile. You do owe it to yourself though and if you really want it- you’ll find a way. I promise you that it will be an investment that will pay off for the rest of your life.
Kevin Richardson is a visionary NYC Personal Trainer and the founder of the Naturally Intense System of Diet & Exercise™- a new way of looking at health and fitness. Get your copy of his free weight loss ebook here!
