Show Title: Personal Trainers

Name of Guest: Debra Provost , Josh Henkin, Owner of Individual Fitness , and Raymond D’Alessio, Certified Personal Trainer & Z Health Mobility Coach

What are the basic points Debra Provost wants listeners to remember:

1. Trainers have a piece of the puzzle that you don’t have which is why people should go to them.
2. If you attempt to do something that you don’t know how to, you run the risk of getting hurt or quitting out of frustration.
3. If you want mastery at any level you need to go to a master
4. Trainers are there to guide you, teach you and keep you going when you want to stop.
5. They should be there to sort out all the myths and simplify things so that it applies to your life
6. The first thing you want to know is what actual experience they have and does it apply to your goals. Have they done what you are asking for?
7. Life experience is the most important thing to look for when you want to find a good trainer
8. Someone you can relate to, who understands what you want and will support you to get it is vital.
9. One of the most important things is understanding and support.
10. People who love to come to me do so because we relate to each other.
11. Trust is also a big issue.
12. You can’t live your life in the gym.
13. You want to get a sense if you relate to them. Is that person going to be able to give you something that applies to your life or will they add stress to your life?
14. Schedule is another thing to keep in mind. Their requirements must fit into your life. Ex. Train with them three times a week vs. once a week.
15. You get what you pay for. Anyone who takes their work seriously needs to charge you a fee that is congruent with the amount of experience they have. It also reflects that they value themselves.
16. If you want one on one and someone who handles diet and who will guide you it is going to cost a minimum of fifty to one hundred dollars a session.
17. If a trainer says no problem to all of your goals and says they can whip you into shape in a month I would be leery of. If they downplay the undertaking, I would stay away from. There are no quick fixes.
18. I would be cautious of people who are just out of school. There is no way that they have the experience that clients are looking for. They are experimenting on you.
19. I would be careful of a trainer that doesn’t walk the talk…and train themselves or smokes cigarettes or someone who doesn’t take care of themselves.
20. When working with clients, I have no set plan. I listen to my clients' goals. I educate all my clients about eating, and the exercise and work they are need to put in. I develop a plan based on where a person says they want to go, their commitment level and their willingness to address why they haven’t gotten results or have quit previously.
21. My plan is based on each client's willingness and commitment level. I will suggest things, teach them about food, how to get the most out of their exercise. I come at it from a number of directions.
22. I will do coaching with them, train and educate them physically, and do a behavior assessment where I give them a workbook to assess their behavior. You can’t change your behavior if you don’t know what it is and why it is that way. I take each person as an individual, assess the three elements and build individual plans.

Debra Provost Contact Information:

• (480) 734-4781
• Physiocentrics@cox.net

What are the basic points Josh Henkin wants listeners to remember:

1. Anyone can achieve a high level of fitness.
2. The keys are the same for everyone; they must prepare, have a plan and ways to address problems that arise along the way.
3. If things sound to good to be true they are.
4. The best information is what we usually know.
5. I understand the training principals-all the variables actually determine an overall outcome.
6. Very few trainers actually make an individualized program.
7. The challenging problem in training anyone is making them feel comfortable.
8. Make the person feel successful and they will progress faster which is very important.
9. It is very important that trainers make the sessions about the client and not themselves.
10. A trainer needs to create a relationship with their client so that they are more apt to stay dedicated.
11. When people contact me, I know that working out is something that they want to do so it becomes about their needs and goals.
12. When I am working with a client, I try to make everything else in the gym disappear except for us.
13. In general, I find things that people can do and focus on it to build their self esteem. Once they are empowered and realize how much they are able to do, they come back, are positive and realize that they can accomplish their goal.
14. If someone has medical issues, I try to work with their physician to build a program that works for them.
15. You don’t have to hurt to get fit. I air on the side of caution and go slowly.
16. When looking for a trainer, look for credentials, a University degree, certification, a list of referrals and talk to their clients.
17. Have a consult to hear what they have to say.
18. I would ask potential trainers what their plan was to accomplish my goals and go over the plan. I would also want to see that they had interest in my experience so that they can work beside me.
19. Sometimes it is not a good match. It must be an intellectual, physical and personal match
20. Make sure that the training is about my goals not the trainers.
21. People shouldn’t feel overwhelmed getting started.
22. They need measurable goals to see progress instead of relying on what they see in the mirror since the mirror lies!

Josh Henkin Contact Information:

• www.ifsfitness.com
• Josh@joshhenkin.com
• (602) 620-3591

What are the basic points Raymond D’Alessio wants listeners to remember:

1. It is important to work with a trainer for more than motivational purposes.
2. A trainer is someone who knows how to get physically fit and can get help you to reach your goals in a healthy way and knows how to teach you and make you understand.
3. You need to be able to put your faith in them.
4. A good trainer coaches people and teaches them how to do exercises properly.
5. They are motivational and can get you to do what you think they can not do.
6. A bad trainer does not motivate clients,I do not motivated to be their themselves, and is someone who wants to tell people what to do and be a boss.
7. A good trainer needs to be able to do what they tell you to do.
8. Eating well is very hard. It takes a lot of will power to keep away from what you are used to eating.
9. Having to go to the supermarket and then come home and cook it then clean it up vs. buying your dinner is taxing for most people who have busy schedules.
10. Working out is an easier commitment to make for most people because it takes a few hours a week in the gym versus having to always have the will power to eat well.
11. Food is fuel for the body. In the past decades going out to eat has become a social aspect. Society has gotten away from cooking at home.
12. Not all food is food. Just because it is in a box does not make it good for you.
13. Processed foods are full of chemicals and things toxic to the body. They cause inflammation and can lead to disease.
14. Some people are exhausted because they are eating food which contains chemicals and makes their body use a lot of energy to process, which tires the body out.
15. You are not getting energy from foods containing chemicals or that are processed. Instead, these foods are taxing your body to break them down.
16. There is a lot of misinformation regarding healthy food.
17. To eat well, the best thing to do is eat food that is grown in nature. ”If man makes it, you do not want it”. (Jack Lalane)
18. It comes down to eating meats, fruits, vegetable and drinking water. It is that simple.
19. The more food is processed, homogenized the less nutrients it has for your body.
20. Good food should contain either protein, good fats, good carbohydrates, vitamins or minerals.
21. I suggest people start to eat well by adding one or two good things to their diet and take away one or two bad things that they eat. Continue this cycle of adding two good and taking away two bad over time.
22. I compare it to being right handed for forty years then switching to the left hand in one day. If you have not eaten well for the majority of your life, you need to slowly build into it so that it lasts.
23. The most important thing is to break the cycle of eating poorly.
24. Eating breakfast, for example, is critical.
25. Eating well is a process and a life style change.
26. A lot of people I work with worry so much about the new trends or current fad diets. They take one step forward then one back.
27. Try to eat foods that Mother Nature put on the earth.
28. Eat 90% for your body and 10% for your soul.

Raymond D’Alessio Contact Information:

• (602) 770-7625

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