Personal trainers and their costs

[Urethra Franklin]

So here's the deal:

I'm 6'1 and about 175. I'm not rail thin, but I'm obviously not overweight. I'm a pretty lanky dude.

I want to build some upper body and get some definition on my stomach. I realize that's gonna take time and effort and I'm on board.

Today, I visited a personal training facility and sat down with its owner for over an hour. I randomly walked by this place and it piqued my interest. It's phenomenal. It's private. It's one on one and it's everything I want...except it's like $1400 a month. Yeah.

I can't afford that (most people can't, but a lot of his clients are NFL, NBA and NHL players) or anything close to that, so I hafta look elsewhere for something reasonable.

I currently don't have a gym membership, but I have a gym in my condo. I know some trainers do house calls, so to speak, but with others you'll need to join their gyms.

I'm willing to spend money, but I don't wanna go broke.

Can I get more than one session a week for under, say, $400 a month?

If anybody uses a personal trainer (or is one), what are you paying?

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I don't use personal trainers. I would only consider a personal trainer is if I seriously plateau and have a fitness goals that seems impossible to reach on my own without any help whether that's steroids or a personal trainer. I do watch a lot of videos about fitness and I'm pretty damn active. I seen this video watch about this subject matter you might like it or not. But Alan Thrall videos are great but keep in mind he's all about building strength and strongman/powerlifting training and not so much about looks but he does have a great video about abs.



Anyways the cost of most training sessions around in my city are 60-100 per hour based on experience of client or said gym. Every trainer or gym will have package monthly deals where you save a few bucks but it comes down how many sessions are you going to buy into a week or month. Read the fine print especially when it comes opting out or cancellation notices on a day. If it's a commercial gym like a Goodlife or Snapfitness that's probably the rate but you may pay more monthly or sign a bigger term length. Smaller non commercial gyms may have higher than average cost in personal training but shorter term contracts or cheaper memberships but less amenities. But keep in mind if you go to a powerlifting/hardcore/Olympic lifting/hybrid gym they will have trainers mostly trained for that clintelle. Each city has a different market. For example my token hybrid gym in my city evolvestrength.ca

Now unless you're training for the f***ing NHL or to deadlift at least one 700lbs there's no need to train f*** you money for that kind of personal training. Hell no offense but I still don't know exactly what you're training for outside of more definition or abs that require personal training. Like what's the main motivation or end goal or the event that made you consider personal training? Did you even lift before? When was the last time you did?

All I'm going to say for now is if it's been a while, just focus getting back in rhythm, do weight training because it burns tons of calories and continues to burn fat after training, incorporate some bodyweight excercises, if you want abs abs are made more in the kitchen then in the gym, and if it's been a while you'll get to experience the magical experience of fast flowing n00b gains. Maybe just focus in getting rhythm and getting comfortable before seeking a personal trainer.

[Limity (BLM)]

Shocker, there's a fitness/nutrition/weightlifting thread and me and SuperSweet are posting in it...

To the OP, dear God don't spend ANY of that money on personal trainers. Get some books first, such as Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe, or Olympic Weightlifting by Greg Everett. Get on tnation.com and elitefts.com and search their extensive articles.

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Mar 14, 2017 23:06:01 GMT -5 Limity (BLM) said:

Shocker, there's a fitness/nutrition/weightlifting thread and me and SuperSweet are posting in it...

To the OP, dear God don't spend ANY of that money on personal trainers. Get some books first, such as Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe, or Olympic Weightlifting by Greg Everett. Get on tnation.com and elitefts.com and search their extensive articles.

Did we just become the bodydonnas?

[Dub H]

Mar 14, 2017 23:51:07 GMT -5 @supersweetbotch said:

Mar 14, 2017 23:06:01 GMT -5 Limity (BLM) said:

Shocker, there's a fitness/nutrition/weightlifting thread and me and SuperSweet are posting in it...

To the OP, dear God don't spend ANY of that money on personal trainers. Get some books first, such as Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe, or Olympic Weightlifting by Greg Everett. Get on tnation.com and elitefts.com and search their extensive articles.

Did we just become the bodydonnas?

I can see the similarity

[BitterAF]

If I were to spend money, I would rather see a dietician for one hour than a trainer. It's easy to not eat enough despite it seeming like you do, which would slow your progress. Working out is great, but, you need food to actually develop. Depending on weight and goals, your diet could change.

I learned a lot by watching others in the gym. Between that and searching weightlifting sites and YouTube, you can figure things out for a lot cheaper. Also, if you have a friend who also wants to workout, even better, which then would provide a spotter when benching.

If you're set on having a trainer, see if there's a gym/trainer that helps you develop a workout plan and maybe do 2 sessions a month until you feel comfortable navigating the gym, or if there's a package of 10 sessions for whatever price.

Also look for free day/week passes to use. Some trainers are better than others. I've see some at $10 a month gyms seem really bored while some seem knowledgable and genuinely helpful. Gyms with trainers that have advanced degrees and certificates usually boast it. See if any trainers stick out and use the gyms Facebook/website to see what they post and what people say.

[Sam Punk]

I've heard that some health clubs offer a couple free sessions with a trainer to get you started.

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Mar 19, 2017 21:59:15 GMT -5 Sam Punk said:

I've heard that some health clubs offer a couple free sessions with a trainer to get you started.

But does that mean you still have to pay an enrollment fee or the regular monthly rate? I feel lucky a pretty damn good gym opened up 5 mins where I live and I got one of those legacy first 300 members to sign up saves 16 bucks a month deals. But there is just so many good channels on YouTube and boards. Some of those said channels do offer online paid personal training but I literally have no idea how that works outside of I'd imagine hey lets have a skype session and record what you're doing while you follow my workout and meal plan. Actually OP you're from Toronto and this guy is from Toronto and he has a pretty good channel. But I wish he was more engaging.

www.youtube.com/user/OmarIsuf