​PERSONAL TRAINER.

​​​Its fair to say that by investing in Personal Training that the trainer is assuming a lot of the responsibility. We are the ones that plan your diet and sessions deciding when progression, regression or a total change of direction are in order. Everyone learns in different ways and responds differently to techniques of teaching. So being straight to the point and firm with one client may not work with another. We also take the accountability for training away from the client. A massive proportion of my clients feel that personal training is the best way for them regarding exercise because its an appointment and they don’t want to miss it. Outside of the trainers skill and knowledge I personally believe that this is the biggest reason that clients gain better results with a trainer as opposed to training alone. You wouldn’t miss a doctors appointment for example so why miss an appointment with your PT?

CLIENTS.

​On the flip side. Its all very well having an amazing trainer that puts thought and knowledge into your sessions and what you need to be doing outside your sessions (after all most trainers see their clients between 1-4 hours a week, out of 168.) but what if the client doesn’t follow it? Too many times before I have handed people food diaries with only the “good” foods filled in or days missing, given people a workout for home that hasn’t been completed. Now I do feel that as a trainer there are things I can do to motivate people, and so some accountability for this does still fall on the trainer, however myself and all other trainers I know have had at least one client that doesn’t do these things or worse still isn’t committed and accountable for the sessions that they have booked. In other words they turn up late or not at all.

CONCLUSION.​

​There is an element of accountability from both personal trainer and client, and I feel the trainer does assume more of it but not however all of it. The client needs to be accountable for choosing to start Personal Training and what it entails. It’s not always a walk in the park, but then again the best things in life often aren’t