The Trench Difference

Is Your Personal Trainer Ruining Your Life?

The answer is NO … if you train at Trench Health and Fitness.

An article about the above appeared in The Sunday Times body + soul lift out (22nd November 2009). The report by Lollie Barr starts off with a story about a lady who hired a Personal Trainer who charged $700 for 12 sessions which were conducted outside in a park using the parks equipment. The client was injured in the first session and needed 2 weeks to recover. The following 2 sessions were a disaster and the client was refused a refund and lost her money.

Unfortunately stories like this are all too common in the fitness industry. In just 8 weeks you can become a fully qualified Personal Trainer and then charge whatever you like. Damien Kelly who is the Fitness Expert for body + soul is quoted as saying “There is a big difference between knowing a catalogue of exercises to understanding the inner workings of the body.” He goes on to say “An 8 week diploma may teach you how to do a push up and lunge, but you don’t know how the muscles are working and how to optimize the muscles to get the result you are after.”

The article also covers the area of unqualified Personal Trainers and states that a Personal Trainer doesn’t legally have to have any qualifications. This now brings up the other issue of insurance. You would find it very difficult to have any insurance company insure someone in an area which they have no qualifications which would mean that if you were employing the services of a Personal Trainer who has no qualification you can bet that they have no insurance either.

Trench has a wide range of policies and procedures to ensure that we not only provide the best possible service to our members and clients but we also attract the best staff to deliver our programs and training sessions.

If you train at Trench Health and Fitness, you can be sure that your trainer:

• Is fully qualified
• Is Competent to help motivate you and reach your goals
• Is up to date with the current findings and research.
• Will never let you do an exercise they can’t do themselves
• Has a good and rational reason behind every exercise and program they prescribe
• Is fully insured
• Most of all wants you to reach your health goals both quickly and safely