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I think more has been read into what I wrote than was actually there. I find it interesting that people build in interpretations such as fanatical, launching full on etc. Obviously no personal trainer will take a person on without considering what is appropriate for each individual.

A good personal trainer is a highly trained professional but in a specialist area, just as you go to a dentist for your teeth or an optician for your eyes, and a various different doctors for different things, they overlap but each has their own specialty. However it is always our own reasonability what we choose to do and I never delegate to anyone. I listen, read, do my own research and make my own decisions and take full responsibly for them.

No-one ‘needs’ a personal trainer anymore than anyone ‘needs’ a manicure, however anyone can have access to a personal trainer via books, TV, the net etc. I can afford it and, as I am a person who can make excuses to not ‘have time’ to train, for me having set appointments keeps me going, but only because I am a person for whom an appointment means something, in 18 months I have canceled twice and he has cancelled once. However he has many clients who don’t bother to turn up, he is getting a bit more business like now and culls them.

Some people enjoy training just like some people enjoy ironing, but we don’t have to enjoy doing something to do it and and keep doing it.

All I am saying is I hear people all the time saying things like I go to the gym for an hour a day (or whatever) and its not fair because I am not losing weight (or whatever they want to achieve) instead of whining they could look at the facts and consider why what they are doing (or not doing) is not achieving the results they want.

If people want to meet their friends for a coffee, lunch and a chat why not workout first and meet up later.

These are just comments, what other people do, or don’t do, is their choice and none of my business, but if people want results they have to make choices, and sacrifices perhaps, to get them.

Post edited by: Staying There, at: 06/07/2007 16:12