Why Trainers:

Twelve sessions with a good trainer can set you on the right path for your entire training career.

Consider hiring a professional fitness trainer who can teach you the principles of cadence and form per exercise for each part of the body you train. While these rudiments are not enough in and of themselves to advance you towards exceptional muscularity, they are very important, and proper form remain essential to avoid injury. Like in everything else there are a few great fitness instructors who can really broaden your horizons and then there are all the rest.

Be Careful:

A suggestion: While a perspective trainer looks you over during an initial consultation you should look them over too. Look at their body? Does it have physical integrity? Trainers don’t have to be perfect but their physical and oral presentation to you should indicate strength, passion and knowledge about training.

How To Evaluate A Trainer:

Talk to a few potential fitness instructors. Explain what you aspire to. Do they respond with confidence, interest and intelligent feedback? Do you respect what they have to say? Check out other gym members who employ trainers and ask them about their experience with those respective instructors.

There are many different kinds of fitness instructors, and while there are fine, youthful trainers, be particularly careful if you feel a trainer is immature, brash, or reckless. Initial training should be guided by respect for the age, physical and even emotional condition, of you, the client. There is a big difference between a drill instructor and a professional trainer.

The goals of a professional fitness instructor should revolve around building up the client’s stamina, strength, and helping them to find a sustainable method to meet their desired health and weight goals. While a work out needs to be vigorous, relative to a client’s condition, the goals of a thoughtful trainer will never be about over-exhausting you, the client.

If you are a beginner and you leave an initial training session in major discomfort or in great pain it is a clear signal that your trainer is not paying attention. It remains very important that the training experience is about a sustainable process, and that means gradual.

If you don’t care for the way your trainer interacts with you during or after their initial presentation and their idea of a training session seems primarily about counting out your reps and sets, after the most rudimentary presentation of the various exercises, you may not require the services of that particular person.

A recommendation: You will know when a trainer is important to you because they are a critical component in the quality of your training from acclimation to ambitious training sessions. In other words they should be informative, supportive and help facilitate observable transformation.

Frequency As It Relates To Muscle Growth:

During the actual act of lifting weights you are tearing down muscle tissue. The indication of this is the simple feeling of exhaustion in the limbs you exercised.

TIP: It remains destructive to muscle tissue to train while the muscles are in their recuperation process. The long-term effects of over-working muscle can do real harm and functionally impair the future general integrity and growth of muscles.

The recuperation period is very important, because this is the critical time in which lean body mass heals and grows into bigger, stronger tissue fibers and takes you in the direction of the body you’re after.

A secondary destructive effect of over-working muscles is caused by the release of toxins from the muscles stressed by a lift. This may put a general strain on the whole body causing everything from feeling run down to negatively impacting the immune system to include low levels of energy, exhaustion and subsequent bouts of depression.

In other words: don’t cut the healing and growing process short by over-working tired or sore muscles, give yourself a full recovery. The experiences of individuals will vary. You are not in a competition with anyone, even if you are completive, just be competitive with yourself!

On the other hand, if you have been training frequently for a while and notice few gains, the next few installments of this post will be life-changing for you as we explore the less known techniques of high intensity training towards static holds.

If you are interested in advanced, high intensity weight training towards great muscle development, follow this link to my site where I will be posting more articles on this subject.