Hiring a Personal Trainer is a great way to enhance your overall health and fitness but there are many ways to enhance your fitness without hiring a trainer. If anything good has come from COVID-19 it’s the new outlook of not needing to go to the gym to stay fit. Between Peloton, Apple Fitness+, Amazon Halo, Trainerize, and many other online fitness platforms there’s a solution for just about every persona. However, some people still find it difficult to find the motivation to consistently stay on track. This is when hiring a personal trainer makes sense. With the end of COVID-19 on the horizon and in-person services becoming more regular the choice to hire a personal trainer to come to your home or see a trainer at the gym is once again becoming a viable option.
At the Gym or In-Home Personal Training?
There are different ways to train with a personal trainer including training in a small group, one-on-one, at the gym, or in your home or office. The best solution is the one that will ensure consistency! For many of my clients training them at their home is the most convenient and sensible solution since there is no travel time for them, hence, no excuse to back out since I am coming to them. For others being at a gym is their best solution because they like a variety of equipment and the comradery and motivation of belonging to a gym and seeing others workout.
Virtual Add-ons Are Not Competition
As we come to some sort of normalcy by the end of 2021 many of these apps and virtual fitness platforms will still provide a valuable service, but how they’re viewed may change. I personally believe that the many virtual services that have flooded the market during the pandemic will still be around but may be used as an add-on to in-person personal training services. For instance, many of my clients use my Trainerize online personal training app as an add-on to our meeting once or twice a week. This allows me to schedule training routines that they can perform independently. The app allows me to track their actions outside of our time at the gym and increases my presence throughout their lives. This omnipresence feature, via my app, allows for more accountability and better adherence to a healthy lifestyle. Following a Peloton workout or an Amazon Halo service workout when I am not around offers my clientele flexibility and prevents physical and mental stagnation. Since I offer my clients one-on-one attention and advice that they do not receive from these services I don’t see the virtual fitness services available as outright competition, but rather, as an aid to my offerings. What do you think? Let me know in the comment area below.
