New Workout Every Session? - Personal Trainer Community - Forum

[hinndo]

Hello Fellow Trainers,

My Name is Brian, I am new to this site and wanted to ask you all a question.

I used to Personal Train alot but in the past 10 years I have been mostly a salaried Aquatics Director. I did keep up my certs and now I am going to go back to Personal Training Full Time. Things have changed a lot in the past 10 years and I have for the most part kept up. The one change that I see and am not really on board with is this whole making a new workout for your client every session. Yes it is great to relieve bordom and give you countless exercise routines but in my opionion it takes a while to get the exercise technique down and to reap the benefits of an exercise. My programs used to have a starting routine that was switched up at certain phases of their periodization plan.

I guess my question is how many of you create a new workout every session as opposed to having a client stick to a certain routine for a specific time length. Also what benefits you see from creating a new workout each time. Thank you all, I will be anxiously awaiting your responses.

Brian

[bkennedy]

I like constant variance. I revisit alot of the same exercises but try to change them up in how we do them. Snatch for example can be done with a BB, DB or kettlebell.
Instead of using dumbells or barbells use kettlebells or do some olympic lifting. Cleans vs regular dumbell press are not only very effective but quite exciting for both you and your client. Do you want to do the same thing day after day, client after client?

I tend to script workouts for my clients to do on their own if they want. I educate my clients on what we are doing so they can train on their own. However, as a trainer it is to our advantage to keep things interesting and not monotanous in order to retain clients.
I do have regular workouts that I use as testing or mesuring sticks that I do monthly or every 3 months to show progress.

I have a 74% renewal rate amongst my clients, I strongly believe that it is due in large part to the constanly variance in types of workouts I provide.

-BK

[kettlebell king]

completely depends on the client- ive trained olympic sportsmen to overweight middle aged women. You'd get no where using constant variety with professional athetes- 'try everything under the sun and just get sunburn!' You need proper stages of maximum strength, conversion to power etc etc. With your average jo just after general fitness then varied sessions can be used- I tend to design different kettlebell and bodyweight sessions for my clients which keep them interested and helps with client retention.