Do you need an expert personal trainer?

To answer this question, let us take a look at what the expert advice of a personal trainer did to the greatest bodybuilder in the world. 

How Personal Trainers Can Prevent You from Over Reaching?

Lofty exercise goals can be a double-edged sword. A person can get more and more obsessed with their looks and can also begin to abuse their training and diet.A skinny person tends to see himself or herself as skinny long after he or she has gained adequate muscle to fill out his or her frame.

Another spectrum of this is thatpeople who were once overweight, tend to obsess over losing weight long after they have achieved a healthy body weight. A good personal trainer can provide the correct feedback regarding the body and design the correct exercise program for the person to achieve his or her goals.

Understanding Bigorexia or Anorexia

There are extreme cases of these two phenomenons which are known as Bigorexia or anorexia. Let’s take the example of a skinny kid, weighing 120 lb or 54.43 kg, who starts working out to gain some muscle. He puts on muscle after years of hard training and transforms himself into a 250 lb or 113.4 kg behemoth. However, he still continues to be mentally caught in a time warp. He feels small and skinny even at 250lb plus pounds of body weight and continues to force-feed himself. This condition is known as muscle dysmorphia or bigorexia.

It is an anxiety disorder that causes a person to see himself or herself as small, despite being very big and muscular. You can also refer to this condition as reverse anorexia. There is also the case of anorexia nervosa. Here you tend to have an intense fear that you might gain weight. To prevent weight gain or to continue losing weight, people with anorexia tend to severely restrict the amount of food they eat. 

Anorexics may go to the extent of inducing vomiting by putting their fingers inside their throats through their mouths after eating. They may also use laxatives, diet aids, diuretics, or enemas.

Benefits of Personal Trainer

When Arnold Schwarzenegger came to the United States in 1968 after becoming the youngest man to win the Amateur Mr.Universe, he expected to be known as Mr.Big arms or Mr.Universe. However, experts trainer like Joe Gold and Vince Gironda pointed out the lack of muscle definition in his body rather than appreciating his huge physique. 

Joe Gold gave Arnold the name, “Balloon Belly”. It was probably at this point that Arnold Schwarzenegger realized that he had a relatively short torso. His arms and legs are long. More importantly, he did not have a very narrow waist, and his relatively short torso only had a four-pack and not a six-pack. 

He developed a posing routine with twisting and lunging poses so that the judges saw only three-quarters of his waist in most of his poses. He worked with a ballet dancer to refine his movements on stage. Schwarzenegger did this to draw attention to his legendary chest and biceps and take the attention off his four-pack waist. 

1. A Personal Trainer is Your Expert Third Eye

Unfortunately, we are all caught in a time warp. Additionally, human beings are said to be a creature of habit. A human is unable to see his or her correct image as his or her emotional baggage comes in the way. This is where a personal trainer can help. A personal trainer can give you the correct feedback regarding your body. He or she can design the correct workout program to get you to your goals.

2. You Can Zero Out Your Life Goals

There is a famous movie star who lost his father in his teen years. He started his uphill struggle with his mother providing him with the emotional support. However, he received a jolt again when his mother passed away when he was in his twenties and the middle of his struggling days. He struggled on and emerged as one of the major stars. He also went to become one of the richest actors in the world. During his mid-thirties, he hired a personal trainer long before who took care of his workout goals. The actor is looking fitter in his mid-fifties than what he used to look like in his mid-thirties. 

The point is that a person of this caliber who struggled his way to the top to achieve stardom could have figured out his way to build his physique. However, he downloaded the responsibility of his physique goals to an expert trainer. He focused absolutely on his life goals of becoming one of the biggest movie stars in the world. This smart decision to hire an expert personal trainer, long before it was fashionable, might have contributed significantly to his super success.

3. You Can Work as a Team with a Personal Trainer

Even champion bodybuilders like Dexter Jackson work under expert personal trainers. Dexter Jackson is a former Mr.Olympia winner. As aforesaid, Mr.Olympia is the highest professional bodybuilding competition. Dexter Jackson, of all people, should not need a personal trainer.

However, research has shown that every great achiever needs a great team. Personal trainers can be part of a team of supportive people who helps a person achieve his or her goals. Even Dexter Jackson, the oldest Mr.Olympia competitor works under Charles Glass and George Farah as trainers so that he is part of a great team.

4. Personal Trainers Can Help Fight Loneliness and Induced Depression

Research has shown that human beings naturally seek the companionship of others as part of their well being. This was said thousands of years ago by the famous Greek philosopher Aristotle that human beings are essentially social animals. It is true of human beings today as it was thousands of years ago.

In the performance-driven and competitive world of today, loneliness induced depression is the fastest growing disease. Your peers and colleagues are also your competitors. Therefore, your peers cannot be your friend at all times. 

Your schedule might not match with friends who do not connect with you in the professional world. This can put unnecessary demands on your time and can hinder your professional goals. This is where professionals like personal trainers, life coaches, and image consultants can step in to act as your friend, philosopher, and guide.

5. Personal Trainers can Help You Push Harder

Despite all the knowledge and resources in the world, people often do not see results because they are not able to push themselves hard when they are all by themselves. It is easy to back off or slack off. This is especially true on the days that you are feeling low or tired. A good personal trainer can remind you of your goals on a bad day and prevent you from procrastinating or missing a workout. 

Additionally, an expert personal trainer can step in to help you. They will help you to get forced repetitions or strip plates off the barbell to help you do drop sets. They can add to the intensity of the exercise program which is impossible to do by yourself.

Summary

All personal trainers are not equal. The personal trainers can have various specializations. It can range from CrossFit to callisthenics and from powerlifting to martial art and so on. Our advice is to choose a personal trainer whose specialization matches your goals and who you feel comfortable working with.