Personal Training or Group Fitness Classes: Which is Right for You?
If you’re ready to make some changes to your health or fitness regimen, you might be weighing the options of hiring a personal trainer or attending your gym’s group fitness classes. Which is right for you? Let’s look at the pros and cons of each: Money: Might as well get this one out of the […]
Ways to Improve Balance Through Exercise
By Shannon Dolan Strength, power, endurance, flexibility, these are all words that are associated with a typical exercise routine. Unfortunately, when many people exercise, they forget to add moves which are ways to improve balance. Balance is an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady. Within its definition alone, balance seems […]
Personal Training and the Caregiver Demographic
As a self-employed personal trainer, I’m always trying to find common threads in my clientele so I can better understand the demographic groups that I appeal to. One surprising commonality in many of my clients is being a caregiver, especially for elderly parents. Many of my personal training clients are dealing with parents who are considering […]
What Would You Do if You Couldn’t Fail
Do you plan to fail? When you start working out or trying to eat better, do you already have an exit strategy in case things don’t work out? What would you do if you knew you wouldn’t fail? Would that change your outlook? With a bit of fitness planning that examines the key components of […]
Group Exercise or Personal Training: Which is Better?
This topic has been on my mind a lot lately — which is better: group exercise or personal training? Why would someone pay the comparatively high cost of personal training when they could go to all the group exercise classes they want for a lower rate? Though I’m a personal trainer now, the first 21 years […]