Advantages of a Personal Trainer

Advantages of working with a personal trainer

If you’re new to working out or you’re a workout pro, you may be wondering if there are advantages to working with a personal trainer. At SOL Physical Therapy, our team can tell you that sessions with our personal trainers may offer you many advantages.

SOL Physical Therapy has been proudly serving the residents of Oakland, California for more than 20 years. During that time, we’ve helped countless patients find the physical therapy, wellness and fitness services they need. Our services are based around the idea that science-based techniques are only one piece of the puzzle. Though we’ll use the latest science-based techniques in your plan, we’ll also bring another element to your therapy or fitness plan. Our team will always listen to your questions and concerns about your therapy and use this information to choose the therapies and techniques we use to build your plan. This philosophy, combined with our experienced and motivated staff, is one reason you may get so many advantages from working with our personal trainers.

Some of the advantages you may get from working with a SOL Physical Therapy personal trainer

Our team knows one reason people keep coming back to us for their fitness and wellness needs is the advantages they’ve gotten from working with our personal trainers. In fact, we can tell you there are several advantages you may get by working with these dedicated professionals.

One advantage you may get by working out with our trainers is faster and better workout results. If you’re a beginner to fitness especially, you may not know how to get the greatest number of benefits from your workouts. However, our personal trainers can help show you the way. We’re trained in the use of many different science-based workout techniques. This means we may be able to help you optimize your workout to help you achieve your fitness goals more quickly and effectively.

Another advantage our personal trainers may provide for you is helping you balance fat loss and muscle gain. Our team is aware people have many different goals when starting a workout program. However, two of the goals we often hear from our clients is to lose weight and gain muscle. Both of these are excellent fitness goals to have, but you may not be aware they can actually hinder each other. Our team knows that in some cases your body may begin using your muscle tissue for energy if you take your fat loss too far. One result of this is you may have trouble building muscle. To help you avoid this problem, our personal trainers will help you develop a workout plan that balances both goals.

A third advantage our personal training services may offer you is reducing your chances of injuring yourself while working out. Our team knows beginners may push themselves too hard when first starting to workout. This often leads to an increased likelihood of injuring yourself. We also know you may have muscle imbalances and other issues. Such issues may increase your chances of injuring yourself as well. Furthermore, we’ve seen that doing exercises with poor form increases your injury tendency. By working out with our personal trainers, you may be able to avoid all of these risks. You may also find ways to reduce other workout injury risk factors.

Do these advantages sound good to you? Our team of personal trainers is ready to offer them to you. All you have to do to put yourself in a position to get these advantages from working with our personal trainers is take one step.

Contact our team today for more information or to schedule an initial appointment.

About the author

Sports + Orthopedic Leaders Physical Therapy & Performance Training serves the communities of Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, Walnut Creek, Orinda, San Francisco and beyond. SOLPT’s award winning team of Physical Therapists, Performance Coaches and movement experts has helped thousands reach their rehabilitation and performance goals to move beyond pain. We're committed to helping anyone of any fitness level move effectively and more powerfully for a lifetime. We offer rehabilitation and performance services to all populations, with specialties in Sports Rehabilitation, Active Release Techniques, and Manual Therapy Techniques plus Personal and Small Group Training, Sport Clinics and Wellness Services.

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