Healthy Circle of Friends - Small Group Personal Training
Author: Charles Carter
Copyright (c) 2007 Charles Carter
Small-group training personal trainer sessions under five people
may be just what you need to keep you motivated and moving
towards your goals at the health club. Training with friends,
families, or your significant other along with your "other
significant other": your personal trainer puts you in a fun and
comfortable atmosphere where you can train hard and cheer each
other on even harder.
When beginning a fitness program, it is so important that you
have the support of friends and family, not only so that they
won't tempt you with indulgences or keep you from making your
appointments at the gym, but so that they will encourage you to
stick with your goals and pump you up when you are feeling
sluggish. Well, why not bring this support system into the
health club with you? After all, don't you think your loved ones
need a little pumping up, too?
As a personal trainer myself, I have personally trained small groups, and I
have seen the benefits first-hand. I had a group of five
women""all great friends and a mother-daughter duo decide they
wanted to train together with me. They had been training
together for over a year, but weren't seeing the results they
wanted. Following the first session, I could see what the first
problem was: they came to the health club with good intentions
to train, however ended up choosing to have social hour instead.
Now, it wasn't like I didn't allow them to talk, laugh, joke,
and have fun; I just kept them focused when they began
discussing their weekend plans. After all, I believe a fit and
healthy lifestyle should be enjoyable, and I believe you should
have fun while you workout. Well, with my help and motivation,
it didn't take long to see these women transform together!
Small-group training has other benefits as well. Not only does
training with a group of friends allow you to motivate each
other both in and out of the health club (how would you like to
get a phone call from a fellow trainee just as you were slicing
into that piece of chocolate cake, but it can be cost-effective,
too. While a personal training session may range anywhere from
$35 to $75, depending on where you live (sometimes even more), a
group rate may only cost $25 a person. Now that is something to
get pumped about! Most health clubs offer small-group training
packages, but if yours doesn't you may want to ask if they can
put one together for you.
Go ahead, call up a group of close friends today and rather than
inviting them to happy hour, invite them to an hour of fitness,
fun and slimming waistlines! You'll be hooked in no time.
About the author:
About The Author: Charles Carter, BS in Exercise Science is
President of LIVE, llc of http://www.liveleantoday.com - visit
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