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PaperclipPerfector  6mo ago (text post)   4633 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 28, 2024

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Don't. Just start lifting.

Source: Years of lifting and know personal trainers personally. They will just put you on a cookie cutter plan and spot your lifts. Something you can achieve with 15 minutes of googling and having friends who lift. Unless you are a professional athlete looking to squeeze out a 0.1% performance on the table, it's almost always going to be a waste of time.

And if you don't have enough drive to just start lifting without a trainer, you are not going to stick to it anyways.

Source: Seen this shit happen time and time again.

And if you don't have enough drive to just start lifting without a trainer, you are not going to stick to it anyways.

Source: Seen this shit happen time and time again.

Yah I don't have motivation, how long can a personal trainer extend motivation. I certainly don't think it can work indefinitely, but a few months?

I bet there are a lot of people who hire a trainer once or twice a week for years (possibly decades) who wouldn’t have the motivation to do it by themselves, and in their case it makes a big difference.

Why lifting for a cardio heavy sport?

If all you want is to improve your cardio, you definitely don't need a trainer.

It's definitely a motivation problem I'm trying to solve

If it's cardio and a motivation problem, just go to something like a spin class. When I was doing it, it was much cheaper than personal training, given that one trainer could manage the entire class of people rather than just one. I used to joke that I found cardio so boring that it was impossible to motivate myself, so the only way I could do it was to have someone basically yelling what I was supposed to do at me.

Seconded, this is good advice.

Most people get "personal trainers" in the context of lifting. I thought that applies here.

If its for a particular sport, then I don't really know. Are there not any pros or semi pros showing up to the club you paly at ?

No such things as pros for the sport I play. If I had to guess Underwater hockey only has about a thousand active players in the US.

The more experienced and in shape players offer some training advice when you are on their teams, but I'm not on their team and would just generally prefer being in good cardio shape.

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