I’m always looking to save a buck, but on the other hand I consider exercise an investment in my SELF, so I’m OK with doing more than just spending money on a gym membership or evne staying at home and using a home exercise gym.
One of the drawbacks ot training by yourself is falling into a routine. We as humans like stability and comfort, but it doesn’t really do us much good when we’re trying to lose weight or enlarge muscles, muscle groups, or tone thing sup or down.
Personal trainers and cross fit trainers will both tell you that Routine Is The Enemy Of Progress.
When working out, you have to shock your system, your body, in order to see results. That’s part of the reason why calorie shifting works, to a certain degree…. Calorie shifting is a diet that’s meant to help you lose weight by shocking your metabolism, or in better words, to trick your body into making the metabolism work harder, by making it work differently.
Suffice to say that, knowledgeable trainers know that shocking your system is what leads to results.
Now…here was my question to my personal trainer the other day,
“If cross fit and your personal training philosophies are both the same, in essence, with that philosophy at its base being that routine is the enemy, then why do I need a personal trainer? Why can’t I just go to a cross fit class, and let them guide me through the workouts and push me towards my goals?”
Some of her answers were technical and had to do with how cross fit classes like to perform exercises with a longer, fuller rang eof motion, whereas she likes to owrk muscle groups using a shorter rang eo fmotion.
For example, the squat exercise….cross fit will have you doing deeper movements until your butt is touching your calves, almost.. whereas she likes to work the muscle groups in a more focused fashion by only having me do squats until my legs are parallel to the ground.
The philosophy is the same, routine is the enemy and to work different muscle groups in every workout, but here’s the REAL difference between using personal trainers, which cost more, and doing cross fit classes…
Personalized attention
Cross fit classes emphasize a fuller range of motion, and there’s usually one trainer per group of 10 or more people.
Persoanl training is a one on one relationship, and if your trainer is a good one they’ll be watching your form closely, at all times.
My trainer knows how to do workouts, she’s a pro with a gradute degree in nutrition and something else, I forget… and she went to a cross fit class and injured her hip!
Now tell me, how is it that osmeone who definitely knows how to do ALL exercises properly could still get injured during a guided, instructor led exercie regimen?
And that my friends is the difference between cross fit workouts and perosnal trianing.
With personal training you get more attention given to you so your form is perfect, and that injuries are avoided.
Get a personal trainer, sped the extra dollars if you can afford it, it’s your health so why try to cut corners?
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