December 13th, 2018 – Poor education, unsustainable habits, and quick-fix programmes are rife throughout the fitness industry explains Glasgow personal trainer, Fred Chesne.
“There’s a growing trend among new personal trainers in the industry to put their clients on 6-week fast-track programmes with a focus on extreme calories deficits, overemphasis on cardio and rinse and repeat routines. These unfortunate facts are damaging a client’s long-term physical and mental health.”
Often, extreme dieting practices are sub-1000 calories per day which result in quick, unsustainable weight loss and a yo-yo dieting mentality. Once the 6-week programme is up, the client often goes back to their old habit, leading to a sudden weight gain.
The fitness industry is one of the fastest growing markets in recent years, and like any market, many have fallen victim to its shortcomings.
With Personal training courses advertising “make 50k a year” it’s no wonder so many have been drawn to it, but the reality is that many of these fortune seekers and well-wishers who themselves may have gone through a transformation, do not always have the ability to teach others, adapt to the person in front of them, it’s not a one fits all system and that’s where the problem lies.
PTs are often sold the dream, get as many clients as possible, churn the them out, and make money, and for a lot of the inexperienced people that means succumbing to expected industry norms laid out by clients.
By this I mean, clients wanting to be told “you can lose the weight in short space of time” and for a self employed young person when making the choice between telling the client no that won’t happen but this is how you actually do it and then losing the sale, or another promising the world and making that sale, a lot of PTs give in.
Clients need to start demanding more from personal trainers, and if it sounds too good to be true, the reality is that it probably is.
“A personal trainers job isn’t to tell clients they can lose all the weight they want in time for a holiday or wedding, but rather educate them on the realities of what leading a healthy life actually entails.”
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Fred Chesne
07506 597386
https://hypermove.co.uk/personal-trainer-glasgow/
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