Comments on: How to Choose a Personal Trainer

on 12/5/2007 I believe you meant to say the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), not Council.

Danny Shell, M.S., ACSM/HFI, NSCA-CPT

on 1/25/2006 This is your main squeeze for development. Your teacher, taunter, critic, motivator, cheer leader, guru and mentor. Worth the gold. Pay and tip well. Best thing to do is to shut up and do what he says and all he says. So, be careful with whom you make a business pact. Try to avoid some trainer who is more interested in his or her reputation than the quality of professional practice. A good trainer does not want you to be proud of himself, he wants you to grow proud and pleased with your accomplishments and your continued progress.
Warning: Any trainer who, at any point, offers you massive vitamin supplements and dubious herbs and spices, stimulants, performance enhancing drugs, steroids, under-the-counter pharmaceuticals and trendy jive-turkey diets, regimes and machines, you may want to call the cops- after you've asked this piece of human garbage to leave. Seek more trustworthy assistance.