How NOT To Be A Great Fitness Trainer...

As a trainer one of the biggest mistakes you can make revolves around two things.

The first is going too far off of the basic skills and movements.

Teaching complex exercises before your clients are ready, or too many
exercises in a single class will only confuse and slow the progress of your clients. I don't need to tell you that this isn't a good thing.

The second is going too far off from solid training methods and protocols.
We can call this the "here are a bunch of exercises now let's work out" method, or "here is the exercises now let's do it" method, where the clients never learn the proper details of the exercises before performing them.




The bad habits and mistakes they develop remain a constant throughout the athlete's training.



This can be a disaster for anyone starting a fitness routine who doesn't know what he's doing and ends up injured, not to mention that they won't see any progress and will most likely end up quitting.


So ultimately being a great fitness trainer involves making sure your clients master the basics before moving on to bigger things.

It should never be just about how much the client can do but the quality of what they can do before everything else.

When it comes specifically to making progress, it should be a marathon not a sprint.

Slow and steady wins the race.