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Step 1
Clearly outline your fitness goals. Come to your first session with a list of short-term and long-term goals that you would like to accomplish with your trainer. Set deadlines to meet these goals and make sure that your trainer knows which goals are of highest priority for you. This will help keep both and your trainer on track and accountable.
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Step 2
Prepare your body for the workout. Hitting the bars the night before your training session is not on the list of “ways to maximize your workout.” Get plenty of sleep, eat a healthy breakfast, get to the gym early and complete your warm-up 15 minutes before you meet your trainer. Preparing your body for the workout will insure that your trainer can focus on pushing you beyond your comfort zone.
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Step 3
Show up on time. If you have a 60 minute session once a week and you’re regularly 10 minutes late, that adds up to almost 9 sessions a year that you’re missing. Being tardy also means that your trainer will have to alter your original workout plan and skip exercises that would have completed a full body workout.
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Step 4
Bring water. Staying hydrated during a workout is your responsibility, and waiting in line for the water fountain between sets is a huge waste of time and money. Bring your own water bottle and carry it with you during the session.
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Step 5
Stretch on your own after the session. Many trainers use the last ten minutes of a session to stretch their clients, and this is a great service to take advantage of if you have chronically tight muscles. If, however, you do not have flexibility issues then tell your trainer that you’d like to workout until the end of the hour and stretch on your own afterwards. Every additional minute counts.
