For those who hire personal trainers or have considered it.

[K1ngufk1ngs]

What qualities do you look for? Obviously someone competing will have different ideas on what's important but I also want to see if there is one underlying consistency. With good and irrelevant fitness information everywhere available for everyone I know it's easy for alot of people to get results they want without help of a trainer. And as a trainer I see alot of very adept individuals coming in to get trained with "no goals" outside of looking good or being better at training. Younger men almost all (and most of us)have one goal of looking and being strong. When I show them wsm they say that's not how they want to look...but dudes are big and strong lol what they all mean is they want to be John Cena or the rock or Jason mamoa. Women are the most diverse goals unless they just grew up in sports or trained athletically. But also they are the smallest group I work with. And then the older group usually grandparents or older adults just having kids goals are always mobility and longevity. You know what gets old people put into homes is nor having thier own strength to wipe thier butt or even get on and off a toilet, that is motivation to train safe and effectively to everyone.

But point being at the end who they choose may be the same person for all these goals. What are the factors you all look at?

 

[barbell001]

If I were to consider getting a powerlifting coach for example, I'd look around online and choose someone who has already achieved what I want to achieve myself as a minimum - and then some more. So that would be someone who has benched at least 500 to 550 and deadlifted probs around 800 at not too great a bodyweight, probably somewhere between 200 to 240 lbs. Then that coach could relate to me and share their experiences as to how they got to those numbers, this would be much more relevant than someone say 300 to 400lb's who would use programmes and diets way out of my league or ability.

I have recently found the John Haack/ Andy Huang powerlifting programme app via his Instagram page which I am thinking of giving a go on. Hopefully its the same sort of programme they both use as seen as they have written them. There is beginner / Intermediate / Advanced ones to follow that include both Volume and Peaking months of around 3 months each. Don't know anyone who has tried it but its only $30 a month and sits on your phone by the looks of it.

 

[JesterBOB]

I look at his results, and the results of the coach are his students. Then I watch how he trains, what he focuses on, technique or other parameters. How is he in a dialogue with a person?

 

[JesterBOB]

If I were to consider getting a powerlifting coach for example, I'd look around online and choose someone who has already achieved what I want to achieve myself as a minimum - and then some more. So that would be someone who has benched at least 500 to 550 and deadlifted probs around 800 at not too great a bodyweight, probably somewhere between 200 to 240 lbs. Then that coach could relate to me and share their experiences as to how they got to those numbers, this would be much more relevant than someone say 300 to 400lb's who would use programmes and diets way out of my league or ability.

I have recently found the John Haack/ Andy Huang powerlifting programme app via his Instagram page which I am thinking of giving a go on. Hopefully its the same sort of programme they both use as seen as they have written them. There is beginner / Intermediate / Advanced ones to follow that include both Volume and Peaking months of around 3 months each. Don't know anyone who has tried it but its only $30 a month and sits on your phone by the looks of it.

It seems to me that for powerlifting you still need not general standard programs, but to work with a trainer. So that he corrects the technique and, of course, composes a training system taking into account your individual abilities.

 

[jJjburton]

What qualities do you look for? Obviously someone competing will have different ideas on what's important but I also want to see if there is one underlying consistency. With good and irrelevant fitness information everywhere available for everyone I know it's easy for alot of people to get results they want without help of a trainer. And as a trainer I see alot of very adept individuals coming in to get trained with "no goals" outside of looking good or being better at training. Younger men almost all (and most of us)have one goal of looking and being strong. When I show them wsm they say that's not how they want to look...but dudes are big and strong lol what they all mean is they want to be John Cena or the rock or Jason mamoa. Women are the most diverse goals unless they just grew up in sports or trained athletically. But also they are the smallest group I work with. And then the older group usually grandparents or older adults just having kids goals are always mobility and longevity. You know what gets old people put into homes is nor having thier own strength to wipe thier butt or even get on and off a toilet, that is motivation to train safe and effectively to everyone.

But point being at the end who they choose may be the same person for all these goals. What are the factors you all look at?

Seems like older women gravitate toward me and my training lol.

But for a trainer i wouldnt get one. As it is not hard to know what you have to do, its actually doing it.

Consistantly

I guess since i have alot of education in exercise but always want to learn i like to discuss training methods with other people more advanced then myself and moreso talk about it.

Since there is more then one way to get from point a to point b.

Or have a training session with them

 

[JesterBOB]

People sometimes choose a coach not according to his qualifications. And in general, like or dislike as a person. Everything else is secondary for them. I often noticed this.