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What are the benefits to using a personal trainer

At Philly Personal Training, we’ve helped dozens of clients make the transformation they’ve always wanted. A healthier body, a more energetic lifestyle, and a more positive outlook are all best achieved through thorough training and comprehensive nutrition at our gym in Philadelphia. However, what is the benefit of doing it through a personal trainer compared to doing it on your own? Training plans like strength training, are built to your needs and progress. This means that you’re always losing weight and gaining muscle without losing momentum, but without pushing yourself so far as to make yourself prone to injuries. Healthy, reliable advice can ensure that you’re doing exercises that are likely to lead to injuries or following sketchy diets that can do your body as much harm as they do good. By setting realistic goals, we can make it much easier for you to see incremental progress over time, and to have your ongoing efforts backed up by success after success. If you’re ever hav
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How To Choose A Personal Trainer

Personal trainers and their clients have a close, intimate relationship. For this reason, it’s vital to get your choice of personal trainer right. Take a look at some of these tips on how to choose a personal trainer. Investigate Their Qualifications – Do They Line Up with Your Needs? Personal trainers all have varying qualifications. If you’re just looking to get fit, lose weight, or build muscle, then a personal trainer with basic training will suffice. However, if you’re working through an injury or have special requirements, then you’ll need a trainer with specialist certification. Many trainers, for instance also have experience with physiotherapy. Ask About Their Training Style As a client, you know which training styles you respond to best. Some people like a “boot camp” approach where the trainer barks instructions and creates external motivation. Others prefer a more nurturing and collegial relationship where the personal trainer not only gives instructions but provides a
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The Skinny On Workout Supplements

If you’re investing time, energy, and money into the pursuit of better fitness and health, you obviously want to reap all the benefits. You want to lose weight. You want to look ripped. You want to be strong and live a high-quality life for a long time. What you don’t want is to wait around forever for all that to happen. If there’s anything you can do to speed up the journey toward your goals, you’ll do it, right? Many fitness-minded people add supplements to their diet and exercise regimen in an effort to change their bodies. Whether it’s protein powder for muscle growth, branched-chain amino acids to aid recovery, or highly caffeinated energy drinks, locker rooms and gym floors are littered with mixer bottles filled with different-colored liquids meant to enhance the effects of working out. Are those supplements really helping? Are they worth taking at all? The truth is, we don’t know. Probably not. Workout supplements, unlike drugs, are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administra
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Hitting the “Sweet Spot” for Results in A New Exercise Regimen

It’s almost been a month since we celebrated the start of 2019, so if your New Year’s Resolution was to get in shape and you’re still hitting the gym regularly, congratulations. You cleared a big hurdle – and avoided becoming a cliche. The first month is absolutely crucial to establishing a new routine. You’re probably already seeing a difference in how you feel during your workouts, and maybe even in those all-important numbers on the scale. That’s good news. The bad news – well, it’s not necessarily “bad” – is that the honeymoon phase is almost over. The hardest work is right around the corner. It’s time to buckle down. Experts say that the “sweet spot” for seeing results in a workout routine is somewhere between the three- and six-month mark. So, that essentially means that that months two to six are crucial because in order to really start seeing results, you’ll have to persevere even when you feel like giving up. Philly Personal Training, home to the best personal trainers in Phil
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What’s the Story On Muscle Soreness?

“I’m sore…in a good way.” If you’ve worked out in a gym for any length of time, you’ve probably heard someone say this. You’ve also probably heard quite a few people discuss their muscle soreness because it’s something we all experience, and striving to get in shape can be considered a kind of shared suffering. You’re sore? I can relate! Now we’re friends! Then, there’s the whole “badge of honor” attitude people tend to have about soreness, as if you only truly worked out if you’re unable to walk the next day. So what’s the real deal when it comes to exercise-induced pain? Is there a “good sore” and a “bad sore”? Should you judge the effectiveness of your workout based on how much it hurts you? In truth, many commonly held notions about how exercise affects the body are nonsense. Let Philly Personal Training, home to the best personal trainers in Philadelphia, break this down for you. Different bodies, different reactions Soreness (science term: “Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness”)  is a n
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A Brief Guide to Self-Myofascial Release

Self-myofascial release can be an incredible tool to have for your workouts and your recovery. For those who don’t know what it is, myofascial release is soft tissue therapy and is often used for the treatment of muscle pain and immobility. Most commonly, it comes in the form of a foam roller and it focuses primarily on the fascia and other connective tissues in the body, similar to a massage. Myofascial release is used as an alternative treatment for chronic back and neck pain, headaches, migraines, scoliosis, restriction of motion, TMJ or jaw pain, and plantar fasciitis. Unfortunately, not everyone can afford regular massages or an athletic trainer to regularly rub out the kinks, soreness, and tight spots in their muscles caused by exercise. So, the purpose of myofascial release is for people to massage themselves, with the benefit of being able to control precisely where and how much pressure to apply. If you’re looking to make self-myofascial release a part of your workout plan, ou
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Test Your Intensity: Working Hard or Hardly Working?

It’s easy to feel like you’re not working out hard enough, but it’s also just as easy to push too hard during your workouts. Both could negatively affect your results in the gym. At Philly Personal Training, our personal trainers in Rittenhouse believe the tests in this article will help readers decide whether they’re exercising too hard or not working out hard enough. Talk Test. The first and easiest way to test your intensity is to do the “talk test” during your next workout. If you’re on a bike or a treadmill, you should be able to chat with someone next to you a sentence or two at a time. If you can only say about two or three words at a time, you might need to take your intensity down a notch. On the contrary, if you can easily speak in long paragraphs with no problem while working out, you may not be pushing hard enough. Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE). Another way to measure intensity is to use the rating of the RPE scale. This is how you rate how hard you feel like you’re wo
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