I've met some great trainers over the last few years. I've also met some questionable trainers. Most clients trust their trainers 100% when it comes to advice and how to get in shape. But isn't the information only as good as the source from which it comes?
Trainers are in the business of training, so there's an incentive for them to keep you around month after month. So following are six things your trainer may not tell you but you should know.
- 85% of Your Results Come From What You Eat - This bit of information is HUGE! If you're losing weight or gaining muscle, what you eat plays the biggest role in how you look. No matter how advanced and fancy your workouts are, if you eat garbage, you will look like garbage. Straight up. Working out plays its part in stimulating muscle growth and speeding up the metabolism, but when combined with proper nutrition...you can get great results. You can't just workout. You have to do the hard part...eating right the rest of the time.
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| No need for a damn bosu ball. |
- Your Core/Stomach is Not the Big Problem - It never fails. You walk into the gym and see trainers having their clients doing all these balancing exercises on bosu balls, wobble boards, and other pieces of random equipment. While it's okay to use them as secondary exercises, they shouldn't be the main focus of your workout. Using resistance with weights, bands, and cables or doing full compound bodyweight movements is where most people need to focus. Don't get suckered into all the promotions by the equipment industry. They just want to sell more silly balance equipment.
If you want a strong core, lift something over your damn head and hold it there. Then repeat. Looking around the gym, most people have too big a core anyway and simply need to focus on full body movements and diet.
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