Are Personal Trainers Worth It?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ย. 2024
- Starting Strength Coach Grant Broggi talks about personal trainers vs coaches, who would benefit from having a trainer, and whether or not it's a good idea for you to hire one to reach your goals next year.
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Hiring a strength coach is different from signing up with a personal trainer from your local gym (I've done both in the past). A coach disseminates their knowledge and experience to improve/correct your technique and find/fix faults. A PT is just someone you pay to count reps for you (usually on machines since that requires little/no input from them). I've seen numerous PTs proudly posting their clients videos on IG with woeful technique and half squats being lauded. The former is well worth the investment (they charge a premium which is justifiable, Ive used a SS coach every 6 months to tweak my lifts and come out a better and more knowledgable lifter each time). So long as you can count to 12 yourself you dont need the latter!
I had four sessions with a trainer to teach me the basic lifts and it was 100% worth the money. Six months later I've noticed huge improvements!
The woman clapping was hilarious! SS is the way 💪🏻
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I worked with a SS coach out of Columbus Ohio. He was good and helped me clean up my lifts. Not something I need yo do year round for a decade or anything, but it was a good 3 months. He was confused by the marrs bar tho.
Yeah what I don't understand are people who are recreational and still using a trainer years on end. If you're not competing or pro what do you need a coach for? I guess these are people with more money than self-motivation.
@@zerrodefex some people work better with accountability. As long as they're working out then who cares?
Yep!
😅personal trainers are dangerous. They don't know what the difference between BODYBUILDING and POWERLIFTING. Then they're men like Charles Glass, LOUIE SIMMONS R.I.P, and Mike Mentzer RIP. They are full of knowledge and experience. Thankyou for sharing this.
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Grant, I have a membership to a globo-gym. I need to explain some things first before I make my point:
I have bought into the precise definition of a coach being someone who has a training goal in mind and therefore has exercise selections based on that goal, and therefore has a model of those exercises and is coaching an athlete to conform to that model.
This definition fits to all kinds of coaching- swim coach, gymnastics coach, etc.- and I also buy into the two-factor model of sports performance. I digress.
But a coach is not a personal trainer. And a strength coach should be able to cooperate with other kinds of coaches since strength is general.
That said, I must highlight that most Americans are obese and out of shape so most Americans need to exercise and diet .
This has a lower initial buy-in than strength training…which we still know is optimal.
THAT SAID… I have a real problem with these globo-gyms now having their personal trainers wearing shirts that say “COACH” as if they are coaches. It seems gimmicky, like an attempt to ride the coattails of people who hire actual coaches in MMA, or powerlifting.
I think an SSC ought to write an article about it.
Hell no, learn to lift, train yourself. No trainers and no financial planners. Learn to lift, learn to invest, then take responsibility for yourself. Hold yourself accountable. You’ll be better served in the long run in both important endeavors.
That's not a good comparison. A coach can teach you how to do the lifts properly from the start. They can see and correct problems while you cannot. Do it right from the beginning, and you won't have a problem with injuries that may start when you hit a certain weight, and you have been doing it wrong up until then.
You’re the dude who says a 405lb squat is bad for your knees
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Tbh I think personal trainers are overrated. If you really care enough you’ll find the right info online and apply it to yourself.
Reached 7 plate conv deadlift, 555lb high bar squat, 365 bench, 260 OHP, 4 plate chinup. All without a coach.
I know how much research I’ve put in over the years. And I know I have the internal motivation I don’t need one for that
My opinion, if you aren't a powerlifter or bodybuilder (UNLESS YOU COMPETE IN PROPER COMPETITIONS YOU AREN'T EITHER) it's not worth it. The average trainer is no better informed than most beginners, hence why most of their client make no progress. Also, most information you'll get from a trainer you can just spend a few days watching TH-cam. If form is the argument, just record all your sets and adjust your form based on that.
A personal trainer is someone with a NASM, ACE, ISSA, or similar cert that enables them to get insurance at a globo gym.
Personal trainers are great at holding average out of shape people accountable and giving a plan and routine.
Most people need this.
That said, in general, personal trainers are incompetent regarding executing the main barbell lifts or getting a bodybuilder “stage ready.”
So basically everything you said is 100% wrong in the exact opposite way you said it.
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