Just to piggy back onto Chris' statement; "Having trouble with and unmotivated client? You must find out the real reason they want to train with you. Build emotion and find out ways to motivate them through a session".
This sparked something in me... While you are the educated one on the body and how to get it to yield results you have to make sure that what YOU are trying to achieve is what your CLIENT wants to achieve. There's nothing more boring than pouring energy into something you don't want. Additionally, if your client does not understand what they are doing then their effort or motivation may directly be effected. As a personal trainer you must understand that motivation is not exclusive to a elevated level of energy, yelling and counting down the exercise. DEFINED: motivation is the act of motivating- inducing incentive to do something. Each client will respond differently to different types of motivation. After all- we are called "personal" trainers. This week I dealt with an array of different people. Knowing a little bit about each one and what they wanted really helped me succeed in training them. They left feeling like they were heading to their goals. As a personal trainer you may feel pressure to constantly be verbally motivating your client, (showing your level of attentiveness) but this week I had a client that would much less rather here me counting and motivating than counting and focusing their efforts in their own head. For this person they just liked to learn the exercise and then be guided through their execution. Another client I had this week was so eager to learn about the body and know anything there is to know about training it. They would rather hear what muscle they were working out then what repetition they were on. So with this person I chose certain things to share with them while they were exercising and with each set I would repeat what I told them. Again here- Be careful with eager minded clients not to overload them with information because then the integrity of the information may get lost and the client may end up muddling concepts and not truly getting them. This goes back to the old mantra: quality not quantity.
Make sure as a personal trainer you can curb YOUR wants for the client into a concerted effort with the goals of the CLIENT in mind. Hopefully from there you will find a motivated client effectively reaching their fitness (and personal goals).
Morning motivation: My brother wanted me to time him in his two mile, so I hopped on my bike and just biked a little in front of him, yelled out his time at 5 and 10 minutes. His record was 13 mins, well we just finished the run and his time was 11.02 minutes AWESOME BROTHER!! All he needed was a visual motivation.
MY goal: to truly motivate two people a day to help them reach their goal.
- JANNEL
This sparked something in me... While you are the educated one on the body and how to get it to yield results you have to make sure that what YOU are trying to achieve is what your CLIENT wants to achieve. There's nothing more boring than pouring energy into something you don't want. Additionally, if your client does not understand what they are doing then their effort or motivation may directly be effected. As a personal trainer you must understand that motivation is not exclusive to a elevated level of energy, yelling and counting down the exercise. DEFINED: motivation is the act of motivating- inducing incentive to do something. Each client will respond differently to different types of motivation. After all- we are called "personal" trainers. This week I dealt with an array of different people. Knowing a little bit about each one and what they wanted really helped me succeed in training them. They left feeling like they were heading to their goals. As a personal trainer you may feel pressure to constantly be verbally motivating your client, (showing your level of attentiveness) but this week I had a client that would much less rather here me counting and motivating than counting and focusing their efforts in their own head. For this person they just liked to learn the exercise and then be guided through their execution. Another client I had this week was so eager to learn about the body and know anything there is to know about training it. They would rather hear what muscle they were working out then what repetition they were on. So with this person I chose certain things to share with them while they were exercising and with each set I would repeat what I told them. Again here- Be careful with eager minded clients not to overload them with information because then the integrity of the information may get lost and the client may end up muddling concepts and not truly getting them. This goes back to the old mantra: quality not quantity.
Make sure as a personal trainer you can curb YOUR wants for the client into a concerted effort with the goals of the CLIENT in mind. Hopefully from there you will find a motivated client effectively reaching their fitness (and personal goals).
Morning motivation: My brother wanted me to time him in his two mile, so I hopped on my bike and just biked a little in front of him, yelled out his time at 5 and 10 minutes. His record was 13 mins, well we just finished the run and his time was 11.02 minutes AWESOME BROTHER!! All he needed was a visual motivation.
MY goal: to truly motivate two people a day to help them reach their goal.
- JANNEL
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