Have you ever wondered, “Why should I work with a Virtual Personal Trainer?”
Working with a Virtual Personal Trainer will help you get in great shape. Under the watchful eye of your trainer, in the comfort of your home, you will have the help you need to know what exercises to do, how to do them correctly, and the motivation to follow an exercise program.
Here are 20 ways working with a Virtual Personal Training can help you get in great shape:
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- Virtual Personal Training reduces the total amount of time that it takes you to exercise.
- Virtual Personal Training gives you your own custom-designed workout program.
- Virtual Personal Training ensures that you are exercising with the correct form.
- Virtual Personal Training gives you accountability.
- Virtual Personal Training gives you endless variety in your workouts.
- Virtual Personal Training pushes you to work harder than if you were on your own.
- With Virtual Personal Training, you will rest the proper length of time.
- With Virtual Personal Training, you will be using the correct weight to reach your goals.
- With Virtual Personal Training, you will be exercising at the correct tempo to reach your goals.
- Virtual Personal Training gives you a professional to help you develop goals that excite you.
- Virtual Personal Training gives you a professional to help you get through mental blocks.
- Virtual Personal Training gives you a professional to help you discover new goals when your first ones are met.
- Virtual Personal Training gives you a professional to set up homework for you to do when you’re on your own.
- Virtual Personal Training forces you to take time out for yourself.
- Virtual Personal Training improves your flexibility.
- Virtual Personal Training improves your strength.
- Virtual Personal Training improves power.
- Virtual Personal Training helps you build muscle and stop age-related muscle loss.
- Virtual Personal Training helps you improve your cardio.
- Virtual Personal Training helps you improve your body composition.
1. Personal Training reduces the total amount of time that it takes you to exercise.
Working out at the gym….
60 minutes of exercise.
Add a 15-minute drive to the gym.
Add a 15-minute drive from the gym
Add 5 minutes for putting your stuff in a locker
Add 5 minutes for getting your stuff from a locker
Total time to exercise = 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Virtual Personal Training….
60 minutes of exercise
3 minutes to log into Zoom.
Total workout time = 1 hour and 3 minutes. Time savings 37 minutes.
Workout twice a week and you will save 1 hour and 14 minutes/week. WOW.
2. Virtual Personal Training gives you your own custom-designed workout program.
Google “Workout Program” and you will literally find thousands of options. But which one is the best for you? The safest and most effective? Which one will help you reach your goals?
A workout program, custom-designed for you and your goals is the one that is most effective. A Virtual Personal Trainer will get to know you and figure out where you are now. Your trainer will help you develop goals and will write a plan to help you get there.
3. Virtual Personal Training ensures that you are exercising with the correct form.
Imagine for a second that you decide to do a set of pushups. You get on the ground and get into position and start banging them out.
How do you know that you are doing those pushups correctly? Is your back flat? Are you going down low enough? Or coming up high enough? Are your hands pointed in the correct direction? How about your elbows? Are they angled at the correct angle? Are you using your core enough? Are your head and neck in the correct position? These are just a few of the things that your Virtual Personal Trainer will be looking at to make sure you are doing this one exercise correctly.
4. Virtual Personal Training gives you accountability.
Imagine that your goal is to lose weight. It’s a Tuesday night and you have an early morning session with your trainer. You’re watching Netflix with the family and you’re hungry. So you walk into the kitchen and open the fridge to see what’s there.
Hmm… a gallon of ice cream staring you in the face. Damn that ice cream looks good. But then you imagine the smiling face of your personal trainer who in less than 12 hours is going to ask you how many times this week you had a late-night bowl of ice cream. You shake your head, grab hummus and carrots, and go back to your movie.
5. Virtual Personal Training gives you endless variety in your workouts.
Are you stuck in a rut with your workout routine? Are you sick of doing the same exercise and the same workout every time? A Virtual Personal Trainer can give you dozens of exercises for any muscle group.
Imagine that you have been doing bodyweight squats for your legs. You tell this to your trainer, and they immediately start thinking of options for you. They know that you are doing bodyweight squats, but you could be doing….bodyweight squats, front squats, barbell squats, goblet squats, box squats, pistol squats, Bulgarian split squats, lunges, reverse lunges, side lunges, jumping lunges, step-ups, etc., etc., etc.
Variety in your workouts will keep you motivated, will allow you to see better results, will give you a more balanced physique, will prevent overuse injuries and will be safer in the long run.
6. Virtual Personal Training pushes you to work harder than if you were on your own.
So imagine that you are 30 seconds into holding a plank. You are starting to feel it. Your arms feel like they might fall off. Your hips are starting to sag, or you push them way up in the air. Your body is shaking, making you look like a scared puppy. So what do you do? Well, if you are at home by yourself, chances are you put the weights down and stop the set.
But a Virtual Persona Trainer watching you will know if you can squeak out a couple more reps. Your trainer will give you the encouragement you need to complete those last few reps and get the most out of your workout.
7. With Virtual Personal Training, you will rest the proper length of time.
Taking the correct length of rest between sets and reps is vitally important to the success of your workout. And most people don’t even think about it. Either they finish a set, shake their arms out, get bored, and immediately grab the weights to start their next set. Or they will finish a set, stand up, check their phone, cook a meal, and come back for their next set whenever they feel like it.
A Virtual Personal Trainer will make sure you rest the exact amount needed to reach your goals.
30 seconds between sets if your goal is endurance.
45-60 seconds if your goal is to build muscle.
90-120 seconds if your goal is to build strength.
2-5 minutes if your goal is to build power.
8. With Virtual Personal Training, you will be using the correct weight to reach your goals.
Let’s say you went out and bought a set of weights for your new in-home gym. You get it all set up and are ready for your first workout. You are ready for the first exercise, lets pretend its dumbbell lunges. You go to the rack and look at dumbbells from 5-40 pounds.
Where do you even begin? What is the perfect weight for you?
Once again, it depends on your goals. Do you want to build endurance, strength, muscle, or power?
Endurance, you want to use 65% of your one-rep max.
Muscle 85%.
Strength 90%.
Power 75%.
A trainer will assign you the weight that will best help you reach your goals.
9. With Virtual Personal Training, you will be exercising at the correct tempo to reach your goals.
Back to lunges. Let’s pretend that you grabbed the correct weight. You go and perform a lunge. Now the next question is how fast do you perform that lunge? Do you want to do it as fast as humanly possible? Do you want to pause at any point in the rep? Do you want to make it super slow? How fast do you need to go?
Am I’m starting to sound like a broken record?
Once again, it all depends on your goals.
For endurance, you can go a bit faster, 1 second up and 1 second down.
The same goes for strength.
For muscle, you want to slow it down a little on the way back up. So, 1 second down and 2-3 seconds back up.
For power, it’s as fast as possible.
Your Virtual Personal Trainer will make sure that you are doing each rep as fast as necessary to reach your goals.
10. Virtual Personal Training gives you a professional to help you develop goals that excite you.
Exercise is a means to an end. It’s a powerful tool to get you in shape for your goal.
Do you want to run a 5k? Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro? Keep up with your 3-year-old grandchild? Do you want to fit into those jeans? Get off high blood pressure medication? Or gain bone density?
A Virtual Personal Trainer can help you be healthier and more fit. They can help you look better, feel better, move better. But, your trainer has to know what YOU want to get out of exercising.
A Virtual Personal Trainer will help you figure out goals that are exciting to you.
Wow — You made it through the first 10. Congratulations. You are learning and building your fitness knowledge. Well done.
If you want to see what Virtual Personal Training is all about before finishing the last 10, check out our Virtual Training Services.
Now….here we go with 11-20.
11. Virtual Personal Training gives you a professional to help you get through mental blocks.
Here is a little secret. Exercise is hard. Even for fitness professionals. There are days when we don’t feel like working out. There are days when we would rather just sit on the couch and binge-watch Netflix. But when we have those days, it is important to remember why we are working out in the first place.
And when this happens to you (and it will) your trainer will help you through it.
A Virtual Personal Trainer will remind you of your goals…and why you are working so hard in the first place.
And your trainer will adjust your workout as needed. If your energy is dragging, they might back off a little bit or push extra hard. Whatever works for you.
12. Virtual Personal Training gives you a professional to help you discover new goals when your first ones are met.
I had a client that came to me for training. While sitting down and discussing her goals, she had one very specific, very competitive goal in mind.
It was June when she started with me. She knew that she was going to be spending Thanksgiving with her family. And she knew that she had one cousin who never stopped talking about how fast she could run a mile.
Her one and only goal was to beat her cousin’s mile time by Thanksgiving. The one thing she neglected to tell me was that she was not a runner and had not run a mile since high school. Long story short, after working together for this goal, a week before Thanksgiving, she ran a mile on the treadmill at her goal pace and beat her cousin’s time.
Now, this could have been the end of it. She could have stopped training because she reached her goal. But she didn’t. Instead, we adjusted her goals and a few months later she finished the first 10k of her life.
13. Virtual Personal Training gives you a professional to set up homework for you to do when you’re on your own.
When you work with a Virtual Personal Trainer, you will have homework to do during the week. This is vital for your success. There are 168 hours in a week. If you work out twice a week, you are on your own for 166 of those hours. That extra time can be valuable if you know what to do with it.
What type of homework will your trainer give you?
Once again….it depends on your goals and what your life is like currently.
If you want to lose weight, you will probably have you log your food and do a couple of sessions of cardio. If you are only sleeping 5 hours a night, your homework assignment will be sleeping an extra hour each night or taking a nap during the day.
Can you imagine how much you would love your trainer if they told you that your homework was to take a nap in the middle of the afternoon? Your spouse might not like us, but you will.
14. Virtual Personal Training forces you to take time out for yourself.
Let’s face it. We all live hectic lives. And there are a lot of people who rely on us. It might be a wife or husband, parents, kids, bosses, co-workers, employees, or investors.
It’s easy for us to get so caught up in the needs of others that we forget to take time out for ourselves.
Yes, you know that you are happier, more productive and a better spouse, parent, co-worker, boss, or employee when you take care of yourself, but who has time for that? Working with a Virtual Personal Trainer forces you to take that time for yourself. Your trainer will be there no matter what. And you have to be there as well.
15. Virtual Personal Training improves your flexibility.
Do you ever wake up in the morning feeling stiff? Do you ever feel like you keep Tylenol in business? Well, it doesn’t have to be this way.
When was the last time you stretched? I am not talking about the 30 seconds of stretching that most people do before they go for a jog. I am talking about a full-body stretch of every muscle group? I bet it has been a long time.
The beauty of working with a Virtual Personal Trainer is that they will be able to tell from the way you move and the way you perform exercises which muscles are tight.
Your Virtual Personal Trainer will see what muscles need to be stretched and will incorporate effective stretches into your program.
Soon, you will spring out of bed, ache, pain, and stiffness free.
If you want to get a head start on a stretching program, check out the blog post The Seven Best Stretches for People Who Sit Too Much
16. Virtual Personal Training improves your strength.
As we get older, we naturally lose strength. In fact, starting at age 50, the average American loses 15% of their strength per decade.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. Strength training or more specifically progressive resistance training can help you not only prevent loss of strength, but it can also help you gain strength.
And it is never too late. Studies have shown that people in their seventies and eighties can still build strength.
And it is not like you have to spend hours upon hours at the gym. You will see and feel a difference with two strength training workouts a week.
17. Virtual Personal Training improves power.
Power simply put is the ability to move fast.
How fast can you lift a weight?
How fast can you put a bag in the overhead compartment?
How fast can you get up and out of a chair?
As we age, we tend to lose power. More so than strength or muscle mass. And it is the factor most associated with falls…one of the biggest health problems for older people.
Build power now, maintain it as you age, and your chances of living a long life increase.
18. Virtual Personal Training helps you build muscle and stop age-related muscle loss.
Starting at age 30 most people start to lose muscle mass. In fact, most people lose 3-5% per decade and over 30% over the course of their lifetime.
Think about that for a second. Take a look at your muscles. Really study them. Now imagine that they are 30% smaller. What effect would that have on you and your life?
Less muscle means less strength and less mobility.
Resistance training has been shown to halt age-related muscle loss. Study after study shows that you are never too old to build muscle.
19. Virtual Personal Training helps you improve your cardio.
Do you ever get out of breath when you go up a few flights of stairs? Or worse yet, do you avoid stairs altogether because you know you will be out of breath? Do you want to go hiking with family or friends, but do not want to slow anyone down while you are huffing and puffing?
A properly written cardio training plan will allow you to do the things you want to do without getting out of breath. A good plan, like strength training, must be progressive, must be hard enough (but not too hard), must have variety, must give you the correct amount of rest, and must be written specifically to help you reach your goals.
20. Virtual Personal Training helps you improve your body composition.
What is body composition? It is a nice way of saying how fat you are. What percent of your body is fat?
There are three ways to improve your body composition.
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- You can gain muscle
- You can lose fat
- You can do a combination of both
A good virtual trainer will figure out which is most appropriate for you and write a plan to help you get there.
Conclusion:
So there you go…20 ways virtual personal training can help you get in shape. If you have decided that you want to see what virtual training is all about, we would love to work with you. And your first two training sessions will be free.
The first session will be with me. I will talk with you about your fitness history, workout history, and goals and then give you a great workout. From there, I will figure out which of my trainers you would be a good fit with have them train you once as well.
