Personal trainer

Personal Training (English personal training, individual training ) refers to the physical and, if necessary, to supplement and mental fitness training within a personal and individual care of individual clients through each coach. This 1:1 care differs from training in groups. However, many personal trainers serve additionally small groups, for example, employees of a company or a corporation.

Activity

This intensive form of fitness training is often used by:

• Professionally strongly clamped persons who can afford little time for training and want to use the time available through tailored exercise programs optimally.
• Niche target groups such as children or seniors who need a tailor-made training model that takes into account their own capabilities as well as any complaints and medical history.
• Celebrities who do not want to train in a gym.
• Persons who have not achieved your goals in gyms and diets and need motivation, and control of the training by a trainer.

Often, the personal trainer also offer further advice and nutrition tips that support the training program in order to achieve the set goals.

In Germany, personal training became known in the late 1990s, including through the establishment of the Federal Association of German personal trainer (now Federal Association of Personal Training ).

In Germany there are now about 300 personal trainer full-time and several thousand trainers that offer personal training part time.

Most full-time trainers are like the Federation organized in networks personal training. You have completed usually in addition to a university degree or a basic training several additional training and further education.

The price for a training session with a professional personal trainer is between 80 and 150 euros. The relatively high price is due, among other things, the fact that coach main working each workout prepare and follow up and in time and space flexibly to each client individually adjust and often take longer journeys to the individual clients in purchasing. In addition, taxes (eg VAT) and pension contributions must be paid. In Germany, (also self-employed) for full-time coach pension insurance. In addition, most (full-time ) personal trainers also have professional liability insurance. Many personal trainers are on and off the training as a contact person and take about motivation coaching to ensure the regularity of changes in diet and independently conducted training sessions.

Another field of Personal Trainers is because of the Corporate Fitness. Companies Fitness is offered as a group sport for the employee as compensation for workplace training. The goal is healthy and motivated employees who are less ill.

The job title Personal Trainer is not protected by law, there is not a uniform and generally accepted training. Even without any training can call themselves a personal trainer. Commercial banks offer so-called certificates and qualifications.

Known Personal trainers are Daniel of Sweden, John Sitaras, Clifford Opoku - Afari and Lyen Wong.

In so-called micro - gyms, where usually without the traditional gym equipment is trained in a small space, personal trainers are mandatory. For example, use is Strength training with free weights, athletic training, functional training or even the so-called EMS training.

Online Personal Trainer

An online personal trainer is programmed with the knowledge and the experience of a real trainer and is able after entering some essential personal information, such as training target, training focus, equipment used, age and exercise frequency, automatically individualized training plans and nutrition plans for each to create users.

A necessary condition for the use of an online personal trainer is an Internet connection.