How a GOOD coach can benefit YOUR fitness journey?

How can a GOOD coach/personal trainer benefit YOU and YOUR fitness journey? 🧐👆🏻

Quick fire one from me today -

-Accountability & motivation.

-Form analysis and injury prevention. Picking up bad habits and form from either not knowing what you're doing, ego lifting or not understanding an exercise will end up in one of three ways.

1. Injury.

2. A never ending cycle of bad habits to over compensate for bad habits and poor form.

3. Limiting your ability to do a certain exercise because you're not doing it properly.

-Creating suitable specific programming with long term guidance to reach goals.

-Individualised, personalised advice. A good coach/trainer should be able to offer you specific advice that is bespoke to you and your needs, requirements and limitations. Whilst the major principles surrounding fitness and nutrition will be consistent from person to person, the approach and methods to achieving goals and programming in general will vary.

-Support. A good coach/trainer should be a good communicator and able to support in ways other than just catching a barbell if you fail a squat…Having empathy and being able to listen to clients queries and concerns whilst coming up with solutions and suggestions, is one way a trainer can help you reach your goals.

-New ideas for both new exercises and also ways to overcome plateaus and lack of motivation. One of the main causes of 'gym boredom' or losing interest in training, is due to sessions become repetitive, unchallenging or losing direction. Whilst a level of consistency and repeatability is necessary, not knowing how to intensify exercises or on the flip side, not knowing how to make things easier when needed can cause people to lose interest.

-If you’re looking to get into a sport or target a specific skill, hiring a reputable coach is the safest way to start. Something like Olympic weightlifting or a marital arts sport is not only highly technical, but require a large amount of skill and movement cues to nail them and avoid injury. You wouldn't expect to get into a car for the first time and know what to do, so why expect to pick up a barbell and know how to do a perfect clean, jerk or snatch complex?

Ultimately, having a coach isn't for everybody. Handing over that control isn't everyone's cup of tea. But I do think that speaking with, having sessions with or reaching out to someone who is qualified, credible and that feel you can trust, is something that can benefit us all at some point in life. It doesn't have to be a long term fixture, but you'll be surprised how much you can take away from even one session or conversation a GOOD trainer.

Find yourself someone that you gel with, who brings out the best of you and acts as a cheerleader even when you’re psyching yourself out!

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