Frequently asked questions

1. Why Do I Need A Personal Trainer?

Personal trainers can improve your health and well being including your fitness; motivation; body toning; weight gain; weight loss or to treat a sports injury

Some people are happy to follow their own programme in their own time and place; for those who lack the time, or the motivation, or the energy to train effectively on their own, a Personal Trainer can be the answer. The support, advice and encouragement comes with safe exercise technique to help you avoid injuries.

2. What Price Should I Pay?

Personal trainers range from £15 - £50+ per session (normally 1 hour) largely dependent upon their experience etc. Some require you to block book sessions in order to meet specific goals and targets. Unfortunately there is no typical cost, although the range for block booking is between £50 to £500 dependent on your location, time for training and their experience and client list. If you spend £500 a year on gym fees and use the facility once or twice, with no results as a consequence, personal training as a comparison can prove inexpensive.

Although prices range across the country, and will be influenced by the length of each session, skills required, gym fees which may be payable, travel costs and any other number of contributing factors. Most Personal Trainers will set a rate which is affordable and effective according to the situation each client is in. You will be guaranteed results, progress and development.

3. When Do I Need A Personal Trainer?

When you are overweight, when you are underweight, when you are unfit, when you want to get fitter, when you have just had a baby, when you are in training, when you are bored with training, when the kids have left home, when the Jeans don't fit, when you are too busy to keep fit, when you are going skiing, when Christmas has happened, when Summer is about to happen, when aerobics has got boring, when you can't avoid the mirror, when you always avoid the scales, when you want to!

4. Will my Trainer Put Me On A Diet? Stop Me Smoking/Make Me Stop Drinking?

Most Personal Trainers are fully aware that in order to change an unhealthy lifestyle you have to work within it. You will find that many Personal Trainers can give you nutritional and lifestyle advice - whether you take it is up to you. Your personal trainer may be with you only a few hours a week, but the fitter you become, the better you will treat your body as a natural consequence.

5. What Sort of People Have A Personal Trainer?

Housewives, stockbrokers, rock stars, company directors, nannies, coffee-shop managers, bankers, doctors, dressmakers, accountants, firemen, receptionists, PR executives, hoteliers, waiters, newsagents, DJs, journalists, producers, secretaries, actors, sportsmen and women, electricians, anyone who wants one!

6. How Can I Easily Find A Personal Trainer?

By using the “search” facility on this page you can easily access a list of the nearest  personal trainers in your area. Initial contact should be made by email or phone to establish that they can meet your requirement.

Once you have decided on which trainer you would prefer, always meet in a public place or in a Gym reception where you can ask to see their credentials (qualification certificates) and insurance documents. Any qualified trainer will have no problem with this.