23 May 2010 0 Comments

A West Chester Personal Trainer Can Provide You With Personalized Attention

The name says it all. The role of a West Chester personal trainer is to provide individual, personalized attention to each and every client; and it is that personalized attention that makes all the difference to your fitness success.

What Does A West Chester Personal Trainer Do?

The personal trainer wears many hats. He or she is part nutritional counsel, part friend and confidant and support system, part motivational speaker, part fitness enthusiast, part exercise scientist, and part fitness expert. That’s a lot to roll all into one person, but it is the labor of love of the personal trainer.

Practically, this means the West Chester personal trainer provides services such as these for you as client:

  • Education in regards to healthy living and eating
  • Consultation for both nutrition and exercise or physical training
  • Education as to proper exercise performance
  • Evaluation of fitness goals
  • Evaluation of past and present fitness activities
  • Injury prevention and management
  • Plan development for individual exercise and fitness programs
  • Exercise supervision
  • Motivational support
  • Reassessment of goals and program

This list is really only the beginning of the services offered by a personal trainer. The services and benefits of working with a personal trainer are wide and varied, and to a very large extent they are dependent upon your own individual needs.

Why Put The Personal In Personal Trainer?

Regardless of the capacity the personal trainer serves for you, the key is that you are getting attention that is personal and individual.

Every person is different. Body type, size, and structure are different. People vary in strength, endurance, flexibility, and overall capability. People differ in regards to health. People have drastically different goals for fitness and physical performance. All of this adds up to one thing: everyone has a need for a different fitness plan.

In order to achieve the fitness goals you have in mind, or even to realize what those goals are, you need to learn many things. You need to know what your physical abilities are, you need to learn how you can safely reach those goals given extenuating personal circumstances, and you need to know how to best focus your fitness work. Unless you have a deep background in nutrition and exercise, you are not likely to have the knowledge base needed to make the best fitness decisions for you.

A West Chester personal trainer on the other hand does. Personal trainers study fitness and the human body in-depth so that they can help you blend exercise science, health, and nutrition all into one package that fits right for you.

A West Chester personal trainer is an excellent resource both as occasional consultant and as a regular fitness coach. Take advantage of the knowledge and personal service that a personal trainer brings so that you can be confident your fitness plan is safe, effective, and well-tuned to make you the healthiest you can be.

Premier Personal Training with Dennis Carroll is located in West Chester, PA and serves clients in West Chester, Downingtown and Exton. Every client at Premier receives the individual training needed to successfully reach their goals. All fitness  and weight loss programs come with a 100% money back guarantee, so why not get started today? Don’t hesitate! Sign up for a Free Consult now!

20 February 2009 0 Comments

Beware The Saboteur – For It Is You!

We all do it.  In one way or another, we sabotage ourselves.  Some of us in relationships (that was a big one for me). Some of us sabotage ourselves financially, while others sabotage their physical health.

The cause of this strange phenomena has been studied and debated exhaustively. Sabotaging your own success has very little to do with your intelligence level. What it does have to do with is your belief system. You are where you are in life, right now, because that is where you BELIEVE you deserve to be.

You may think that last statement is bull. You may be very unhappy with your current situation. But  may I ask, how is it that you are where you are? Who got you here? The answer lies in your belief system. If you have tried something in the past and failed at it repeatedly, it is because subconsciously, you believed you would fail before you even started. If you keep getting the same result, you only reinforce the ‘fail before you try’ attitude.

So here is the good news. You, can succeed. “How?”, you may be asking. The first step is to recognize that you are sabotaging. Recognize, you are responsible for your failures as well as your successes. And begin to shift your mindset. Begin to focus more and more on your successes (everyone is good at something!).  Start building your confidence by realizing that if you can succeed in one area of your life, then you can succeed in all others as well. If you believe that God created you, then you must also believe that He gave you everything you need to be successful in life.

Set specific goals and start taking baby steps towards them. Focus on the steps to the goal, not the goal itself. It is the steps to the goal that will ultimately lead you to succeed.

When you have overcome the things in life that have stopped you repeatedly in the past, your whole world will change for the better. The rewards are so great that I can’t possibly surmise them here.  Believe that God created you to succeed and you will.

Recommended reading; Psycho-Cybernetics, Maxweel Maltz,M.D. (1960) Get the original version