Are personal trainers worth the price? Fed up with her gym membership going to waste, Laura Roberts decides it's time to try a personal trainer. By Laura Roberts “While I’m happy to spend money on a good haircut, a bottle of wine or an evening out, a personal trainer has always seemed outrageously self-indulgent. Surely you have to be worth as much as Madonna or Gwyneth Paltrow to afford a one-on-one workout? This is what I thought until I found myself enviously eyeing a university friend’s figure at a wedding last year. “It’s my personal trainer”, she whispered and passed on the details for Sam Warrington, a 24 year-old fitness instructor from Devon. Although I’m a sofa slacker by nature I did join a gym last New Year - along with an estimated quarter of a million other well-meaning people. By April Fool’s day a third of us had stopped going altogether. Yes, unfortunately, I was one of them. With this history of failed health kicks behind me, I took the plunge and dialled Sam’s number. The first hour-long training session can be daunting to the uninitiated - oh the tyranny of squats and lunges! - and I had to be taught how to run from scratch. It was a revelation. Almost a year on I am fitter and a dress size or two smaller. Crucially I am still exercising. It has all proved far more worthwhile than my lapsed gym membership which cost hundreds of pounds a year without shedding any. “If you have one hour of personal training a week and you combine it with jogging round the park and playing tennis you don’t need to fork out for the gym. That makes it much more affordable,” Sam says. “Celebrities make up very few of any trainer’s clientele. My clients are mainly in their twenties and early thirties and can’t afford to have a trainer too regularly. I set them up with a programme and see them every four to six weeks.” For many the expense is motivation in itself. You are more likely to drag yourself to the gym or park in between sessions to make it worthwhile as well as to avoid the shame of not improving week on week. Naylor-Leyland agrees: “I need someone standing over me, making me do it. Who in their rightmind wants to go to the gym – before work, after work, at weekends? I always had something better to do but when you’re paying more for it, suddenly you can’t not go. It’s not the invisible transaction, it’s someone waiting for you and a lot of money not to show up.” After all, it works for Madonna.” If you think your health is worth as much as a bottle of wine or a haircut and you want to make a difference to your life, contact Nick at New Body Personal Training now to discuss how we can help you. Call: 07747451836 www.newbodypt.com |
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