Op-Ed

If I had to choose between working out with a personal trainer or working out with a friend. I would choose a personal trainer without a doubt. Personal trainers have the knowledge and the experience to help people accomplish things that no one else can. When talking to Jerry Flynn who is a personal trainer he went on to say “When people want to see results that show up quickly then there is nothing that can come close to the effectiveness of working out with personal trainers.”(Flynn) If people didn’t think that personal trainer worked then there wouldn’t be nearly two hundred and fifty thousand personal trainers nationwide, also that number is expected to grow by nearly seven thousand jobs a year from 2006-2016.(bls.gov.)

When people think about working out with a personal trainer there is one thing that they know they will get, someone who is honestly interested in helping people get better. While working out with a personal trainer might not be the thing for everyone it is the way to get the best results. Working out on your own or working out with a friend isn’t the way to go, when working out with someone who is a friend one is more likely to get off track and cheat themselves out of a workout that could have really helped get them.

Personal trainers are people that know how to handle problems when they come up. They are able to get the best out of people even when they don’t want to work hard. When someone is working out alone or with a friend they might just take a day off and say they will make it up later, with a personal trainer they can try and help get peoples mind off of what is bothering them, this fact is overlooked because people tend to think that things won’t come up and change their workouts. It’s a lot harder to change workouts when one is working out with a trainer.

There is nothing that can come close to the benefits that someone can get from working with a personal trainer. Just based on the knowledge that they have, and their willingness to help people out. “There is nothing better than helping someone get better and reach their goals. If I had to go through a day where someone I was working with didn’t feel like they got an advantage from working with me then I shouldn’t be a personal trainer anymore.” (Flynn) I know that this is only one persons view on things, but this says a lot about how much it really means to him. When someone decides to work with a friend they don’t get all of this. A friend isn’t really invested in the workouts because there isn’t anything in it for them.