Weight Loss

Why Traditional Personal Training Often Doesn't Work

To understand the true benefits of Fitness By Phone, you must first understand the weaknesses of traditional personal training.
Personal Trainers know that when they show up, the client exercises. When they don't, the client typically does not exercise. Often, the reason the client hired a personal trainer in the first place was to provide motivation and accountability. However, this can backfire for the client. Here's why.

Most people want to lose body fat or improve their level of fitness. This means exercising 5 to 6 days a week with a very focused effort. Not only can most people not afford a personal trainer five or six days a week, but most people have schedules that don't permit exercising at a specific time, in a specific location, 5 or 6 days a week.

Typically, clients hire a personal trainer for one to three sessions a week, with the understanding and encouragement from the trainer to exercise on the other days of the week. While a few clients do have the motivation to follow through, most do not. Instead, they often become dependent on the trainer's presence for their motivation. In the end, the client drops out of the exercise program because he/she did not get the results he/she was looking for.