{"id":3302,"date":"2009-05-05T15:19:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T23:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2009-05-05T15:19:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T23:19:42","slug":"reason-1-to-fire-your-personal-trainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/05\/05\/reason-1-to-fire-your-personal-trainer\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason #1 To Fire Your Personal Trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Fire Your Personal Trainer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/\/youre-fired-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3303\" style=\"border: 3px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"youre-fired-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/\/youre-fired-1.png\" alt=\"youre-fired-1\" width=\"319\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/youre-fired-1.png 405w, https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/youre-fired-1-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/a>If you spend more than 20% of your training session talking, then you need a new trainer.<\/p>\n<p>I have witnessed many trainers and clients gabbing and I have been guilt myself of sometimes having great conversations with a client. However, this shouldn&#8217;t be done on the clock.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m training, I am squeezing absolutely everything I can into that time frame.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, we&#8217;ll be talking about technique, answering questions and food and workout habits, but chit chat can considerably decrease your results.<\/p>\n<p>If you find that you are spending too much time talking through your session, you can do 1 of 3 things:<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Stop yourself from talking too much.\u00c2\u00a0 You should be focusing on your &#8216;lesson&#8217; as well as not using discussion as a stall technique!<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Tell your trainer that you really do enjoy talking to them but you are going to be diligent on keeping your mind on the task at hand.<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; Find a new trainer.\u00c2\u00a0 If they gab too much or if you have become friends &#8211; you might look into getting a new trainer because you deserve the most for your time and money.\u00c2\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t still be friends with your current trainer but just that you need to have someone that can still push you.<\/p>\n<p>None of these are easy to do but remember why you hired the trainer in the first place and do what you need to do to get the job done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you spend more than 20% of your training session talking, then you need a new trainer. 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