Quick Guide to Starting With an Online Personal Trainer
The motivation and dedication to exercise can sometimes fluctuate. Busy schedules and lack of energy can leave you feeling frustrated. It’s time to seek help in managing your routine if your fitness regimen is inconsistent.
Personal trainers are here to make your fitness goals a reality. Read this quick guide to starting with an online personal trainer and discover the amazing support and success that’s achievable in your future.
Evaluate Why You Need an Online Personal Trainer
Is Your Schedule Too Hectic?
Finding time to hit the gym can seem impossible with a busy lifestyle. Balancing work, family, and personal commitments sometimes leaves little room for consistent workouts.
Say goodbye to the stress of gym hours and crowded spaces. An online personal trainer provides you with the flexibility to exercise at times that fit your schedule, from early mornings, late evenings, or even during lunch breaks.
Why Is Exercising Independently Not Enough?
Self-motivation can fluctuate, especially when faced with challenging routines or a lack of visible progress. Many also have trouble establishing a good workout routine. It’s easy to fall into a fitness rut without professional guidance. A personal trainer keeps you accountable, motivates you, and ensures you’re performing exercises correctly to maximize benefits.
Honestly Answer the Questions in Your Initial Assessment
Personal trainers need a foundation of information from you to personalize your workouts. You will need to honestly answer several foundational questions to build the best exercise plan and experience.
Do You Have Any Medical Conditions, Health Concerns, or Pre-Existing Injuries?
Understanding your health status allows your personal trainer to safely modify exercises to prevent exacerbating any conditions. A personalized plan can help you safely accommodate and improve your physical condition, whether you deal with chronic pain or past injuries.
What Is Your Occupation?
Your occupation influences your physical activity level. A desk job requires different considerations compared to a job requiring physical labor. Your personal trainer can adjust your plan to help you balance your daily activity and avoid overexertion.
How Many Days a Week Would You Like To Commit To Exercise?
Setting a realistic commitment level maintains consistency. Let your personal trainer know what you’re realistically willing to commit to in terms of frequency of exercise days per week. They’ll create a plan based on your availability and preferences.
What Types of Exercises Do You Like or Dislike?
Everyone’s fitness level and exercise preferences differ. You want to enjoy your workout, feeling motivated and comfortable. Therefore, you must share the exercises you like and dislike with your personal trainer.
Describe the exercises you usually implement and enjoy in your workouts. Then, start going over the movements that you don’t like. For example, your personal trainer can customize your routine to include alternative movements such as split squats or glute bridges if you aren’t comfortable with deadlifts for example.
What Are Your Fitness Goals?
Setting clear fitness goals provides direction and motivation. Your personal trainer can create a plan with achievable milestones, whether aiming for weight loss, muscle gain, or improved endurance.
Discuss the Different Types of Workout Options
Zavala Fitness offers a custom online workout plan for every client. Our expertise lies in two methodologies that our personal trainers can tailor to your preferences: functional training and TRX suspension training.
Functional Training
Functional training focuses on movements used in daily life, enhancing strength, balance, flexibility, endurance, core stability, mobility, and coordination. Functional training exercises mimic real-life activities such as pushing, pulling, lifting, bending, squatting, and reaching. The following exercises are a glimpse into what your functional training workout may include:
- Squats: Strengthens the legs and core by mimicking the action of sitting and standing.
- Lunges: Enhances balance and stability while targeting the legs and glutes.
- Deadlifts: Develops strength in the posterior chain, which is crucial for lifting and bending motions.
- Plank variations: Builds core stability and strength, essential for supporting various everyday movements.
- Push-ups: Engages multiple muscle groups, promoting upper body strength needed for pushing actions.
- Pull-ups: Engages multiple muscle groups, promoting upper body strength needed for pulling actions.
- Medicine ball throws: Trains explosive power and coordination, translating into movements such as throwing and lifting.
Your personal trainer will guide you through the proper techniques to master each exercise. With real-time feedback, you’ll improve your mastery of each exercise and your overall proficiency.
TRX Suspension Training
TRX Suspension Training uses a suspension system to engage and leverage your body weight across various exercises. Users target multiple muscle groups simultaneously, building strength, balance, flexibility, endurance, core stability, mobility, and coordination.
You can expect to learn & master the following foundational TRX exercises:
- TRX rows: Strengthens the back and biceps while improving posture by pulling the body toward the anchor point.
- TRX chest presses: Works the chest, shoulders, and triceps by performing a pushing motion while suspended, allowing for a greater range of motion.
- TRX squats: Enhances lower body strength and stability while using the straps for balance support, making it accessible for all fitness levels.
- TRX planks: Engages the entire core by suspending the feet in the straps, enhancing core stability and strength.
- TRX mountain climbers: Boosts cardiovascular endurance and core strength through a dynamic, high-intensity movement that mimics running in a plank position.
A key benefit of TRX Suspension Training is its adaptability. Collaborating with an online personal trainer while incorporating TRX Suspension Training into your workout routine proves essential for mastering techniques and maximizing benefits. Every adjustment & modification accommodates all fitness levels, from beginners to advanced athletes.
Set Up a Workout Space
Your guide to starting with an online personal trainer isn’t complete without understanding the workout equipment you’ll need. Functional training and TRX suspension training are complementary styles that require recommended equipment. An assessment of your fitness goals and the building of your custom workout program will set the stage for the necessary fitness equipment.
Equipment for Functional Training
Functional training requires minimal equipment. Items such as dumbbells, a pull-up bar, resistance bands, and medicine balls are enough to begin. They will facilitate dynamic exercises that engage multiple muscle groups, contributing to improved strength, balance, flexibility, endurance, core stability, mobility, and coordination.
Equipment for TRX Suspension Training
TRX Suspension Training relies on the TRX system safely anchored to a stable structure. The TRX straps allow for bodyweight exercises that target multiple muscle groups with special emphasis on targeting the user's core throughout each exercise. Users can seamlessly modify intensity by adjusting the strap length, body angle, and depth for various movements, adding versatility to one’s fitness routine. The lightweight design makes it portable, allowing you to work out practically anywhere. A TRX door anchor will safely secure the TRX Suspension Training system to a stable doorway when working out at home. We recommend using an exercise mat for support during ground-based exercises.
Zavala Fitness wants to help you achieve your fitness goals! Our team is honored to serve you, whether you’re someone who feels lost or uncomfortable in a gym setting or an athlete needing a customized approach to excel in your sport. Send us an email or message us on our website to get more information and start your journey with a personal trainer today!
