The trend of personal training is taking a turn.
1 on 1 training will not be the norm as the economy progresses and people get tired of their 1 on 1 personal trainers.
I cant tell you how many converts that I have made from the 1 on 1 world to the group training world.
And on the other side of the coin, I cant tell you how many people walked away from such the great and life changing experiences we have here at YNV.
I have been bombarded with positive energy and support by everyone who comes and contributes teaching, motivation, accountability to one another.
Now I want to list the top 5 reasons why 1 on 1 training sucks and group training rocks.
Not that there is anything wrong with 1 on 1 training.
I have been on both worlds.
As a personal trainer, there is no room for error and no time to slack with group training, because there are too many people counting on you to step up to the plate.
And our group will call my a*s out if I’m slipping.
So lets get to it:
The top 5 reasons why 1 on 1 personal training sucks and group training rocks.
1. Its too much money.
This is the number one reason why 1 on 1 personal training sucks.
The ROI or return on investment does not match what you are paying for.
Especially if you can pay less for a workout and get 10 x the results and motivation by training in a group.
The going rate for an average one on one personal trainer at a large chain gym is $80 an hour.
The going rate for group training (2 to 4 people) is $30 to $45.
If that is steep to you, consider doing a boot camp class.
The class is larger so it is more challenging for your coach to see you but there is usually 2 or 3 people in the class that are advanced that you can watch and mirror.
A going rate for a good boot camp is between $10 and $20 a session.
It allows you to pay less, work harder, and be around passionate and positive people that want to improve their lives.
2. The trainer feels a need to talk to you so your workout turns into a psychology appointment.
You end up helping your personal trainer with their personal problems or they end up helping you with yours; but both of you are not qualified be a psychologist.
If you are a psychologist, you shouldn’t be working during your training session. You should be sweating your butt off!
The conversations usually start off like, “Are you alright? Or “You look tired. Did you get much sleep?”
Before you know it, you just paid you trainer to help him fix his problems.
This gets old real quick.
3. Your workout is trashed because your 1 on 1 personal trainer is tired and so are you.
They are looking at their watch wondering when the session is going to be over so they can go sleep.
Most one on one personal trainers work 40 hours a week.
The full time amount of hours in the personal training industry is 30 hours so they are exhausted by the end of the week!
When you train in a group the spark plug of the workout may be an out of shape person giving it their all.
The energy of a tired personal trainer and their tired client is nothing compared to 4 or 8 motivated people.
4. You get micromanaged and it gets annoying.
You have a trainer that stands over you and micromanages you with his or her arms crossed because this is the stance they learned from someone else.
Most of the time, they are actually bored and staring at their watch but don’t tell you.
Most successful adults just want to be shown the door, they don’t want to be walked through it.
Most of the people that get personal training are already leaders outside of the gym and they hate being micromanaged.
They just want you to tell them what to do so they can execute it.
Not stand over them and do it for them.
5. You can’t tell if you are working hard or not.
You are going at your own pace and your perceived exertion level is distorted because there is no one around you doing the same routine.
Your trainer will tell you good job but deep inside you know your dogging it so you don’t believe him.
There is nothing better than someone coming in the gym who is your age or older shredding through a workout and pulling you forward with them.
At that point you know if you are working hard or not and the personal trainer’s opinion doesn’t matter as much. You just want to keep up and work as hard as the person in front of you.
