Looking for advice on fitness club memberships/personal trainers

[black booty lover]

Hey everyone,

I've decided it's time for a healthier lifestyle, and I'm really motivated to lose some weight. While I've improved my eating habits, I've realized that dieting alone isn't enough. Despite some initial positive results, I seem to have hit a plateau, even though I'm eating much healthier than before. I'm contemplating joining a gym and hiring a trainer, but I'm on a bit of a budget.

Do any of you have recommendations or advice on good places that aren't too expensive? I'm a bit overwhelmed about where to start and what the first step should be. I used to be a member at the YMCA when I was younger and quite enjoyed it, but it's a bit pricey, possibly due to all the additional amenities. I'm also uncertain about the situation there regarding personal trainers.

Thanks in advance for your help!







BBL

 

[Adam_hadam]

Ryan will set up straight.
Good luck with goals.
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[Mr.Gr33k]

Hey everyone,

I've decided it's time for a healthier lifestyle, and I'm really motivated to lose some weight. While I've improved my eating habits, I've realized that dieting alone isn't enough. Despite some initial positive results, I seem to have hit a plateau, even though I'm eating much healthier than before. I'm contemplating joining a gym and hiring a trainer, but I'm on a bit of a budget.

Do any of you have recommendations or advice on good places that aren't too expensive? I'm a bit overwhelmed about where to start and what the first step should be. I used to be a member at the YMCA when I was younger and quite enjoyed it, but it's a bit pricey, possibly due to all the additional amenities. I'm also uncertain about the situation there regarding personal trainers.

Thanks in advance for your help!







BBL

- if your goal is to lose weight, then it's about 90% diet and 10% fitness. Speaking to a nutritionist and having meal plan prepared, tailored to your body, type may improve your results. Cut out all sugar and wheat products from your diet, eat more protein.

- check out GoodLife fitness. They have affordable plans and many conveniently located gyms

- if you hit a plateau, stick to your plan and don't deviate. Your body needs time to adjust and get on board. Also, try intermittent fasting (18+ hour is most beneficial). A more extreme fasting of 100 hours may help with overcoming a plateau:

- don't set yourself up for failure by setting unrealistic goals. This video may be helpful:

Good Luck!

 

[black booty lover]

Goodlife is expensive and only worth the money if you are serious about your workouts. If you're just starting out I would recommend fit4less or planet fitness which are less than half the price of goodlife. Good for you for getting yourself motivated to be healthier, it's well worth your time and effort invested. A personal trainer is rarely worth the money. There are tons of youtube videos that will help you just as much. Alternatively the gym crowd is a friendly one so don't hesitate to ask other gym goer's for tips and advice. All in all exercise is pound for pound the best investment you can make into yourself, hope you hit your stride.

Thank you very much. The personal trainer idea was just going to be at the beginning as a bit of a catalyst. Do most gyms like planet fitness and fit4less have personal trainers?

 

[Mr.Gr33k]

- Goodlife is expensive and only worth the money if you are serious about your workouts. If you're just starting out I would recommend fit4less or planet fitness which are less than half the price of goodlife.
- Alternatively the gym crowd is a friendly one so don't hesitate to ask other gym goer's for tips and advice.

I will respectively disagree with you on these 2 points.

Yes, even though Fit4Less is half the price of a GoodLife membership, I would still advise going with a Goodlife.
GoodLife gyms have:
- more locations
- better quality equipment and more variety
- more amenities such as showers, saunas pools etc (Fit4Less have none of it)
- better environment which is very important and crucial for long-term success
- GoodLife has personal training and group classes. Fit4Less has no personal training and very limited amount of group classes.

You won't find many gym sharks or fitness aficionados at Fit4Less locations, so your advice on asking gym goers for direction is a big No No. You'll most likely find yourself in a "Blind leading blind" situation. I wouldn't take advice from at least half the people going to gyms. Even very fit guys and girls make stupid mistakes when excercising so taking advice from random unqualified people may be a health hazard.

 

[Vinson]

A trainer is really helpful to push many of us that don't feel like exercising. But they're not cheap.

 

[black booty lover]

A trainer is really helpful to push many of us that don't feel like exercising. But they're not cheap.

No I realize that, which is why I thought it would be a good idea just to get me going and once I'm a groove, and flock the nest.

 

[black booty lover]

I will respectively disagree with you on these 2 points.

Yes, even though Fit4Less is half the price of a GoodLife membership, I would still advise going with a Goodlife.
GoodLife gyms have:
- more locations
- better quality equipment and more variety
- more amenities such as showers, saunas pools etc (Fit4Less have none of it)
- better environment which is very important and crucial for long-term success
- GoodLife has personal training and group classes. Fit4Less has no personal training and very limited amount of group classes.

You won't find many gym sharks or fitness aficionados at Fit4Less locations, so your advice on asking gym goers for direction is a big No No. You'll most likely find yourself in a "Blind leading blind" situation. I wouldn't take advice from at least half the people going to gyms. Even very fit guys and girls make stupid mistakes when excercising so taking advice from random unqualified people may be a health hazard.

Ahhhh, this is why I started this thread. This is the kind of feed back I'm looking for. I was also thinking about going down the yoga route. I realize it's not as good as fitness, but I'm also looking to become a bit more flexible. Any thoughts on that?

 

[Vinson]

You can get some fake abs to keep you motivated LOL

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[Mr.Gr33k]

Ahhhh, this is why I started this thread. This is the kind of feed back I'm looking for. I was also thinking about going down the yoga route. I realize it's not as good as fitness, but I'm also looking to become a bit more flexible. Any thoughts on that?

Any fitness is a good start. Yoga is not as easy as some may imagine. It involves a lot of stabilizing muscles activation.

You'll have to step out of your comfort zone to achieve your goals. There is no easy way, no easy avenue to reach desired destination. It'll take a lot of commitment.

What you Can do is lay a foundation that'll make your journey easier. Pick an option that works for you, but make sure it is convenient for you: ie location, hours, access etc. Environment and atmosphere must be welcoming, and comfortable or else you'll quit before starting. You'll come up with every excuse in the book why you shouldn't excercise today or why it's ok to eat a cheat meal, but you must push past it. If you can achieve that, things will pick up, will become easier and will fall into an easily maintained routine.

Set yourself up for success by making realistic goals such as losing 5lbs per month. Once you start seeing results, you'll be encouraged to keep going. And remember, it takes time! It'll take months of consistency to reap a reward.

 

[Nickelodeon]

I support belonging to a gym and, at minimum, a personal trainer as a catalyst and training you to do the right exercises to meet your goals. I also found that I preferred a small boutique gym for more personalized service than the big chains...and they're likely more expensive than the big chains whose business model is too sell more memberships than members actually use.

And thirdly, and may be most important, is for the gym to be close to your home or work. It easier to fit into your schedule; it's convenient and you have to either walk or drive by it every day, reinforcing the commitment of will and dollars that you're making.

 

[Combat Shock]

Go to the most conveniently accessible gym for you, the further out of your way you'll need to go to get there the harder it will be to be consistent in the long run.
That above all will be the key to success, being able to create a habit starting out with 2-3 workouts a week is a huge stepping stone in your fitness journey.
Unfortunately most personal trainers are not great, the industry is a constant revolving door, ask who's been there a long time, they will be great salesman and hopefully also good trainers.
Get them to go over proper form on all the machines available and some basic compound movements so you can be confident in working out on your own after that.
Shop around, many gyms have free trials, go at the time you'd train regularly so you can see how busy it is, usually Mondays are the worst.

 

[Ebony Booty Lover]

A trainer is really helpful to push many of us that don't feel like exercising. But they're not cheap.

I can tell you if I didn't hire a trainer, I would have quit already.

 

[unassuming]

 

[Jenesis]

I'm looking for a past latina female personal trainer at GoodLife fitness. She's currently working as an escort at an agency. She is of Ecuadorian origin. She has a black Costa Rican boyfriend. She's 33 years old now and has two Siberian husky dogs Neptune and Shato.

This is just a tad bit cringy.

 

[Ebony Booty Lover]

This is just a tad bit cringy.

It's not even related to the subject matter either...lol.

 

[PeterStar]

Planet Fitness is cheap and good value.

 

[Ebony Booty Lover]

My recommendation is that spending money for someone to motivate you to exercise is a waste of money. You have to learn to enjoy exercising for its own sake and not view it as a punishment or penance that must be endured in order to get the thing you want.

Just go run. That’s what I do. All it costs is a new pair of shoes once or twice a year (should be more but I’m lazy/cheap and hate buying new shoes).

It's not the same. When you commit to a trainer and pre-pay, you trap yourself into ensuring you'll go and that has worked amazing for me. Not to mention, the trainer insures your doing everything with the proper technique which is so important. I'm sure some people are good without a trainer, but to others like myself, it's totally worth it or else this wouldn't work for me.

 

[Ebony Booty Lover]

If it works for you then great, there’s no wrong way to get healthy; but even the way you’re describing it sounds bad. You haven’t made actual changes to your life or your outlook. You’ve just “trapped” yourself into a thing you’d feel guilty about losing money on.

A healthy lifestyle isn’t about scheming to pressure your future self into doing something you wish you didn’t have to. I think you’re setting yourself up for a wagon fall-off when/if something changes in your life.

well then you definitely aren’t reading properly, because I clearly said “it’s totally worth it” with no feeling of “guilt” whatsoever.

whatever you have to do to try and live a healthy lifestyle that works for each individual is up them. I really enjoy working out with my personal trainer, I simply use the money I used to spend on cigarettes and alcohol, and spend it on the trainer and it’s actually cheaper. So for me it’s a no brainer.

 

[oral.com]

I would also suggest you consider supplementing your workouts by playing sports.

Gym workouts are fine, but sports also give you a social connection.
They may also motivate you to work on endurance and strength to make you a better athlete.