I'm doing some market research about personal training. I'd be grateful if you could fill out the poll. (Note: I am not yet a qualified personal trainer, and I am not ready for work.)
I would be willing to pay £40+ for an hour if it was with somebody with some physio training to run through exercises to sort out my posture, which is the main thing I'm failing to do through lack of motivation and energy at the moment.
It depends what you mean by exercise. I walk to work and I walk about the place a lot, but I very rarely do actual specific 'exercise' in part due to a knee injury. In fact, specific advice and exercises on overcoming it would be something I would look for in a trainer, and would put up the price I'd be willing to pay.
It's worth saying that my maybe about personal training is closer to no. I just don't think I'll ever have the spare money to make it worth it for someone.
Also, regarding the 'healthy weight' section, I would consider training with someone overweight as long as they were capable of training me to my desired goals.
I have the same concern as morecake. What counts as "exercise"? When I hear the term I usually think of doing aerobics, jogging, etc. for the express purpose of getting in shape. But I know it can also just mean doing physical activity of any sort, such as is incidental to certain occupations, hobbies, or other life activities (e.g., biking to work or to the grocery store). I do exercise in the latter sense but not in the former sense.
I left it up to individuals as to what they thought 'exercise' meant to them.
The usefulness of functional exercise that is part of daily activity is dependent on an individual's goals and make-up. Exercise professionals tend to categorise things like bike commutes and physically demanding jobs as 'work' rather than 'exercise'. Your body gets used to 'work', and if your goal is to lose weight or to increase strength, you'd need to increase the frequency and/or intensity of that. If you're happy with your weight/strength etc. as it is, then you don't need to do any extra exercise - and employing a PT would be a waste.
Also, this poll is kind of a rough draft and I will make changes to subsequent versions (probably using surveymonkey).
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Also, regarding the 'healthy weight' section, I would consider training with someone overweight as long as they were capable of training me to my desired goals.
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The usefulness of functional exercise that is part of daily activity is dependent on an individual's goals and make-up. Exercise professionals tend to categorise things like bike commutes and physically demanding jobs as 'work' rather than 'exercise'. Your body gets used to 'work', and if your goal is to lose weight or to increase strength, you'd need to increase the frequency and/or intensity of that. If you're happy with your weight/strength etc. as it is, then you don't need to do any extra exercise - and employing a PT would be a waste.
Also, this poll is kind of a rough draft and I will make changes to subsequent versions (probably using surveymonkey).
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