THE BENEFITS OF PERSONAL TRAINING AT HOME
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF PERSONAL TRAINING AT HOME?
Privacy and Comfort
Encourages Consistency and Accountability
Saves Time and Money
Creates Extra Funds For Self-Investment
Time Saved Allows You To Focus On More Aspects Of Your Well Being
TRAINING AT HOME ENCOURAGES CONSISTENCY AND GIVES YOU PRIVACY
If you want a consistent approach to personal training, then working out at home with a trainer is the ideal solution for you. There are many benefits to having your coach come to your doorstep.
To make a successful program, you must feel comfortable within the environment you choose for your training regiment. This is important to keep you motivated at all times and meet the frequency of training needed to make your goals a reality.
One reason many people resist going to the gym is because of the heir judgement - all eyes on me.
People starting a fitness plan for the first time can feel self conscious about being watched, its understandable. However, feeling intimidated is not the best recipe for starting in the right direction. More than often there is no judgment being passed. Exercising at home can help you feel ensured and fully confident that there is no heir of expectancy in your own private setting.
The options are there to make the right setting for you. Play your own beats, turn on the TV and watch your favourite sports or soaps. It’s your choice when staying active in your own environment.
Typically speaking, we hope to exercise 4-6 times per week to bring out the best results from our fitness program. This makes in home personal training an attractive option for success, as it’s easier not to miss a workout and keep up the frequency.
It’s also hard to make excuses when skipping on your workout. When you have your trainer coming to you, it imposes a better sense of accountability.
Note: If setting short to long terms goals motivates you, check out our Ultimate Guide to Fitness Challenges in Ireland.
SAVE TIME AND MONEY BT TRAINING AT HOME
Time is Money
They say time is money and that’s certainly the case for busy professionals, especially those in Dublin, commuting long hours on buses and the DART line to get to work every day. This can account for 1-2 hours of your day. By committing to a fitness program at home, you can save plenty of time by resisting the need to travel further by public transport or by car for each session. This also avoids an extra expense. The need for bus and train passes and tanking up your car on more gas.
Club Fees
Fitness Clubs in Dublin can be very expensive when you put the full package together - that is registration, monthly subscription, personal training and any other additional fees. Having a personal trainer at home can limit your budget to a single service. If you’re looking to save costs and create healthy habits in your living space, then this is the right option for you.
HOW CAN SAVING TIME HELP YOUR WELL BEING APART FROM WORKING OUT?
More Sleep
Who can argue with more sleep?
Especially if you are working 9-5 for most of the week.
Those two hours you save from travelling to the gym everyday can work wonders for your sleep patterns. Research has shown that working late and commuting in large crowds for longer parts of the day causes restlessness, affecting our ability to fall asleep.
So…by working out earlier, and getting to bed earlier, you’re set for a good nights rest. Exercise and early nights are the two essential factors for getting quality sleep. This also improves bodily functions. Quality sleep boosts our immune system and increases circulation. This reduces daily stress and heart related diseases.
Access to Healthy Meals
Healthy meals must be combined with physical activity when meeting your fitness goals. Most professionals throughout Dublin work 8-12 hour shifts. This means the average person is finding it hard to maintain a steady meal pattern - breakfast, lunch and dinner, with a few healthy snacks here and there. Starving yourself for long periods of the day is not solution to getting in shape or trying to encourage fat loss.
Saving time by training at home, its easier to sustain a healthy meal pattern and stay in control of your nutritional habits.
This avoids the temptation of all those take aways!
A balanced diet is key for losing weight or gaining muscle. Nutrients like protein, that helps recover the body, are best absorbed by your body within the first 30 minutes after a workout. This gives home exercise another advantage as its easy to make a meal directly after a workout and get a quick shake.
Having a healthy and balanced diet also monitors weight control. Having a large waist circumference increases the risk of heart related diseases such as diabetes, stroke and high blood pressure. Make sure to use time each day to track what you’re eating. Choose high energy - low caloric foods in your daily diet.
General Organisation
Saving time can prevent us from being disorganised.
Being in a constant state of disorganisation can lead to chronic health disorders. Chronic stress can lower our life expectancy and be detrimental for our overall health. While jobs will always have stressful factors, we can put a limit on our personal contribution to stress. By keeping our commitments simple, such as in home fitness, we can reduce the pressure we endure on ourselves.
This gives a chance to:
Prepare healthy meals for the week
Get our personal chores done in rotation
Arrange social events
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Home Equipment
Now that you’ve avoided the extra expenses mentioned such as club membership and travel, it might be a great time to invest in fitness equipment to add more variety and creativity to your home workouts. Investing in your home gym holds you more accountable for your workout, and also supports your personal trainer with having more options. Less excuses can be made for skipping your session when you have all you need on your doorstep. The weather and the traffic cannot be to blame for missing your routine. Here is an example of some starter equipment for a multi purpose workout that is cost effective:
Dumbbell Set
Kettlebells
Mats & Bands
Cardio Machine (Rowing Machine, Treadmill)
Quality Grocery Shopping
Another good idea would be to invest in quality food.
It is better to select more whole natural foods vs processed foods. Whole foods (non-processed) are lower in calories, cholesterol, easier to digest and contain more nutrients. Having these foods in your diet will keep you on path for our common goals of weight loss and building muscle. Lean, clean meat is also important for this reason. We want to be able to consume enough natural sources of protein for muscle recovery without the need to eat more saturated fats.
Correct Training Gear
Going back to feeling comfortable in our fitness setting. This includes having the correct training gear.
Give yourself the chance to train to your best ability. It is best to choose loose, easy breathing gear so you can cope better with the duration of your exercise. This will help you keep cool and prevent dehydration.
For more advice on investing in suitable fitness equipment at home, nutrition and correct training gear, book a fitness consultation with Anywhere Fitness and check out my options for personal training in Dublin.
WHY TRAIN WITH ANYWHERE FITNESS?
YOUR INTRODUCTION IS FREE
Anywhere Fitness offers a full introduction to map your fitness goals, discuss injuries or concerns, and test your general fitness level before engaging in physical activity.
This a chance to build a rapport and get a general sense about your fitness ambitions.
We complete our assessment with a short workout.
Recording all these baseline stats, we put an effective plan together.
ACCESS TO ALL ANYWHERE FITNESS APPS
We use the top fitness apps on the market for getting in shape. This will make it easy to follow your workout and nutrition programs between sessions.
The applications are cooperative, allowing your trainer to track your progress in real time as you submit each program.
Here are its advantages:
More accountability as your trainer can monitor the completion of your individual sessions
Builds better habits and responsibility as you are taking the first steps to being more independent in your fitness
Making sure you are completing the right exercises, sets, and repetitions of the prescribed exercises
The correct food is being consumed at their right portion at the right time of the day
Helping your trainer know more helps you!