5 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Personal Trainer
The Happiness Project
We really enjoyed this book and wanted to share it with you. True, Gretchen Rubin, talks about us in her NY Times Bestselling Book, The Happiness Project, which we might add is now in paperback.
She makes a resolution to “Exercise Better” and reveals the importance of exercise as one of the stepping stones toward a happier life. Certainly that is no surprise to any of us here at Inform Fitness or to any of our clients, but she talks about how she has tried strength training and weight training in the past and was never able to stick with it. Then she discovered Inform Fitness and explains how the Power of 10 slow motion method changed her life.
We are thrilled to have another happy client and well, as you can imagine, ecstatic about her sharing it with the world in her book. If you would like more information about The Happiness Project or to buy Gretchen’s book, please visit their website.
FAQs
For competitive lifters who’ve trained the movement for years and accept the risk as part oftheir sport, it’s a fair trade. For most other people the risk-to-reward math doesn’t hold up. Thebarbell sits on your spine, the load goes straight down through your discs, and theconsequences when technique fails are severe. You can build very nearly the same strengthwith far safer tools.
Improvement in balance is highly specific to the task you train. Standing on a wobble boardmakes you better at standing on a wobble board. It doesn’t transfer the way the marketingsuggests. The better path to real-world stability is being stronger and moving regularly.
Not at all. Cardio is valuable activity in its own right, and it can be serious training. The troubleis when it gets evaluated by a definition that doesn’t fit. It deserves its own conversation.
For strength: progressive resistance training built around the major muscle groups, enoughprotein, enough sleep, daily movement. For everything else: pick activities you enjoy and dothem often. The fundamentals work. They just don’t sell magazines.
Exercise, the way I use the word, is structured work designed to build strength safely.Recreation is any activity that keeps you moving — sports, hiking, dance, tennis, cardio. Bothare valuable. They just shouldn’t be evaluated by the same rules, and confusing them is wheremost fitness debates go off the rails.
