Paging OPT(I need your opinion here)

• Simon Dean

  14 Nov 06, 14:43

  
  
  Can you pls tell me how to tell a good personal trainer from the bad?I find some personal trainers dubious and present their clients with obsolete or incorrect information.
  
  
• OPT

  14 Nov 06, 22:46

  I need to be carefull with my answer with this or I will upset a lot of people..... What the heck I do anyway.
  
  First, a lot of people think that qualifications are important - they are to a point to have a base but I have seen many who have masters degrees yet have no clue to real world training.
  
  Don't get me wrong and think I'm saying that they are a waste of time... I have a ton of qualifications and letters to my name yet I never push that. What is more important is application of the knowledge and the results that they get.
  
  One thing I look for is that if I see the trainer with the client on a machine then I know that they are not that good - they either don't know any better or just don't care - I'm sorry if this upsets some of the trainers out there but it's the truth but at least if you don't know any better then you can go out a learn but if you just don't care then you need a little more help.
  
  I' a beleiver of attention to detail - that is the form in which the exercise is being performed - if the trainer allows the client to perform an exercise with poor form then that is not a trainer that you want.
  
  I do at least 2 hours study 6 days a week and have done so for the past 20 years - I think this is somthing that is very important - I know that some trainers at California work crazy hours and don't have time for this but I do think this is more important - even if it's just an hour - or even better attend one of my seminars
  
  I could go on and on but I hope that does help to answer the question a little - I hope other have some input here also.
  
  
• Simon Dean

  15 Nov 06, 11:26

  Machines are okay to me however i see some instructors put their clients on a TOTALl machine regime
• Marco_Simone

  15 Nov 06, 11:46

  Originally posted by Simon Dean:

  Machines are okay to me however i see some instructors put their clients on a TOTALl machine regime

  Insofar as I hate machines,I think the first 2-3 weeks for a total newbie should be on machines.To let them get a feel of the movement.
• OPT

  16 Nov 06, 00:05

  There are a lot of reasons not to use machines esspecially for beginners.
  
  I don't want to stir up things here of this forum as it usually ends up with people just being more confused. If you guys want to find out why pop in and see me in my new facility some time and I expain in detail - just give me a call first.