One of the most frustrating things about being a one-to-one Personal Trainer is the limited amount of time that you have to spend with your clients.
Maybe an hour a week. Two, or three, if you're lucky.
The rest of the time, they're left to their own devices to follow whatever exercise or nutrition program that they've been given.
That's where my input ends. The rest is up to them to honest with both me and themselves,
It becomes obvious after a while which clients are following their programs by the results that they're seeing. As for the others, it would be great to be able to spend more time with them, maybe even on a daily basis, to make sure that they stay on the right road and to help them to stay motivated.
You see on TV programs, PT's dropping in on clients, taking them out shopping, cooking for them. If only real-world PTing was the same.
I rather doubt that many clients would appreciate me dropping in unexpectedly, rooting through their kitchen cupboards and binning any unhealthy foods that I find.
Then again, maybe they would!!
Andy
