Trainers need to be present
Warning.....I am on a rant!! Today's blog is for everyone although the rant is specific to Personal Trainers; Group Exercise Instructors. However, clients and participants will benefit as well! In the last few weeks I have witnessed troubling interactions between trainers and clients. As a Personal Trainer I believe that it is my professional responsibility to know my clients, including their strengths, challenges and most important, their goals. This means that there is no cookie cutter workout that will work for all clients. The one workout works for all is something I have witnessed pretty frequently. In fact, I paid for a Personal training session at a "spa" to be given the exact workout I watched the trainer give to someone else the day before.... Did I call him out on this....no...although in hindsight I should have. In his situation I figured he was giving "most" a "basic" routine that they could take home and be safe...there was not going