The Ultimate Guide To Selecting Your Personal Trainer

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Undoubtedly, one of the best ways to workout and exercise is with a personal trainer. There has been a research that shows working with one of these professionals can improve your fitness and strength gains as well as encourage you and direct you how to perform specific moves correctly such as the plank, pull-up and deadlift.   However, with more personal trainers than ever before, finding the right one for you can be like navigating through a minefield. This post is your ultimate guide to finding a personal trainer and we will give you some of the most important factors you need to consider.   Proper Credentials   Regardless of whether you are looking to lose some pounds, build your strength or even improve your speed, it is important to find an individual to work with you that has been fully certified through an official and reputable organisation.   Experience It used to be believed that a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice was necessary to master a skill. In recent years though, the idea of smart practice makes perfect has replaced the notion that practice makes perfect. What this means essentially, when you are learning a new skill, it is not […]

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Five Things that Are Slowing Your Workout Performance

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The fitness world is brimming with advice, opinions, and rules, some of which are even contradictory. There’s a lot of well-meaning but misguided information out there, but thankfully, many professional gym trainers today know which advice is outdated and what’s the best way to go about a workout. However, when you’re training at home, you’re on your own – you could very well be doing something wrong, or something could be adjusted so you’d perform better, but there’s no trainer or fitness-enthusiastic stranger to indicate potential mistakes to you. Being constantly updated and knowledge is key to meeting your fitness goals on your own. That’s why we’re going to cover some common “performance-busters” that could be keeping you away from getting the best out of your workout. Using your energy inefficiently Obviously, there’s no universal approach to fitness regimes – it largely depends on your goals, and your goals will determine the order that you stick to during your workout. That said, the old “start your workout with cardio” rule doesn’t apply to all. Actually, it applies in the sense that everyone can do 5-10 minutes of cardio as a way to warm up your muscles, but you could be […]

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