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Thursday, December 7, 2017

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Session With A Silver Lake Personal Trainer


If you’re thinking about working with a Silver lake personal trainer you probably already know about the benefits that working with a personal trainer can provide, but did you know that how you approach your session with the trainer can determine the quality of your training?  Here are some ways to make sure that you’re getting your money’s worth from your workout.

  1. Pick The Right Trainer

It might seem obvious, but ensuring that a trainer’s experience and certification are up to snuff is just the first step.  It pays to ask a few questions before scheduling your first appointment, to discover whether your trainer’s philosophy of diet and exercise matches your own.  Also important to consider is personality: do you enjoy a trainer who will be aggressive and push you to your limits, or would you rather have a partner who is more gentle and encouraging?  Do you like joking around during a workout, or do you find humor distracting?  If possible, ask whether you can watch a few minutes of the trainer working with someone else to get a good glimpse of their style.

  1. Be Honest

Has it been awhile since you’ve been in a gym?  Do you have a trick knee, high blood pressure, or some other health concern?  You might think that concealing the negative aspects of your history and lifestyle is brave, but, on the contrary, it’s vital that you be honest with your trainer.  This enables them to craft a safe, realistic workout plan for you, and to never push you too hard.  Likewise, you should be honest with your trainer about how you’re feeling during your workout. If you feel self-conscious about it, you can always check with them before the workout begins to find out which symptoms, if any, you should let them know about right away.  In general, though, a workout is supposed to feel hard–but not like it might kill you.  If you’re in significant pain, you need to tell your trainer.

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Silver Lake Gym and Personal Strength Training Studio


We know it’s a cliche, but there’s just something about the new year that makes a visit to your local Silver Lake gym and Personal Strength Training Studiomore attractive than ever.  But nobody wants to start the year strong and then fade out before Valentine’s Day.  Is there a way to not just make resolutions, but form good routines that can stay with you long term?  Here’s our handy guide to taking on new habits in the new year.

  1. Stick It Out For A Month

Don’t worry, we haven’t changed our minds about not requiring contracts.  This tip is more of a contract with yourself.  Research has shown that if you can consistently do something for several weeks, it starts to become automatic.  Why choose thirty days?  Most people schedule their lives for a month at a time.  Also, thirty days isn’t an intimidating amount of time to commit to.  You can do anything for thirty days.

  1. Do Some Every Day

Making habits automatic requires that you condition your body and the automatic parts of your brain.  The simplest way to do that is to do the task every day without fail.  Your brain and body are designed to adapt to changes in your environment and workload, so choose which changes you want them to adapt to, and then perform your actions (like, say, going to the gym and working out) every day for thirty days.  What if you misjudge your workload and push too far too fast?  Check out the next point.

  1. Start Small

You may have ambitions to do dozens of box jumps, fifty pull-ups, and so forth.  That’s great.  We’re here to help you reach those goals.  We don’t, however, recommend that you try for them on your first day back to the gym in a while.  Instead, if you want the habit to stick, choose a goal that seems so easy it’s laughable.  Perhaps your goal is to come to the gym and do one pushup every day for thirty days.  Odds are that most days you will do more than one pushup, but by consciously setting the bar low, you’re training your brain and body to think of the gym as a place where you succeed, and making the task so simple that you can’t fail.