6 min readingEverything You Need to Know About the Virtual Personal Trainer
The fitness industry is no stranger to advancements in technology. From the first ever heart rate tracking watch through to today’s high-end, ultra-expensive built-in home gym machines like Peloton and Tonal. What’s really taking the industry by storm, though, is the virtual personal trainer, which is exactly what we’ll be covering in detail here today.
What is a Virtual Personal Trainer?
Put simply, a virtual personal trainer is a personalized fitness solution computer program capable of providing you with online fitness workouts alongside accurate training feedback and scoring. So instead of just blindly following a workout video you found online, you’ll be able to get immediate feedback to correct your technique and improve your performance.
In short, think of it sort of like having a mini personal trainer in your computer.
Try it now – A free sample workout with your own Virtual Personal Trainer
Why is Virtual Personal Training So Good?
Realistically there are five main things that make using a virtual personal trainer so good…
1) Improved Technique
Just as we mentioned above, virtual personal training systems allow you to get immediate feedback on how you’re performing an exercise. This allows you to correct your form and learn the right movements quicker than trying to do everything on your own.
2) Less Risk of Injury
One of the biggest misconceptions about fitness injuries is that they all happen acutely, meaning one big accident or lift gone wrong causes the injury. The reality is that this is almost never the case. The majority of fitness injuries are chronic, meaning they build up over a long period of time, often due to small issues in exercise technique. Therefore by improving your technique with a virtual personal trainer, you’ll be reducing your risk of injury.
3) Better results
The old saying goes that practice makes perfect. In reality, practice makes permanent. If you’re doing an exercise incorrectly it doesn’t matter how often you do it, you’re never going to maximize your results. By using a virtual personal trainer to dial in your technique, you’ll be performing better quality workouts and getting better long-term results.
4) More Enjoyable Workouts
One of the best parts of exercise classes and in-person personal training sessions is the interaction. And yes, whilst no virtual experience will ever be quite the same, having some interactive elements included does make for a much more enjoyable and engaging experience.
5) Cost Effective Feedback
This is where virtual personal training systems really shine, because they can make quality exercise feedback accessible even if you’re on a low budget. For comparison, consider seeing an averagely priced personal trainer once per week and you’re looking at around $200 per month (which is still a fantastic investment in terms of the lifelong health benefits) whereas a virtual personal trainer system might only cost you 1/10th of that amount.
Try it now – A free sample workout with your own Virtual Personal Trainer
Why You Should Try a Virtual Personal Trainer
The short answer here is…why not?
We’ve already covered the range of benefits above, so that should be a pretty compelling list of reason right there.
Plus it’s an incredibly low risk thing to try. The monthly cost for the systems is typically fairly low, and unlike most big gym chains you’re not locked into any absurd contract that you have to learn the secret password to get out of.
This is one of the key reasons to try a virtual personal trainer – flexibility. No, not your ability to stretch (although they’ll help with that too) but the fact that they give you so much choice over your own fitness training. You get to train in the environment you want, at the time you want, with the trainer you want, doing the type of workout you want. You’ll honestly struggle to find any other type of fitness service that offers that much flexibility.
Who is a Virtual Personal Trainer Designed For?
One of the biggest questions to ask before trying out any new product or training approach is whether or not it’s right for you, which mainly comes down to if you’re the person that the product was designed for.
Here are some pointers to help guide you…
If you’re looking for an effective home-workout system, it’s right for you.
If you’re a beginner or intermediate level fitness enthusiast, it’s right for you.
If you love bodyweight exercises, it’s right for you.
If you’re looking for a cost-effective way to improve your technique, it’s right for you.
And if you need flexibility in your workouts, being able to perform them anywhere and anytime around a busy schedule, it’s right for you.
And what about who it’s not right for? Well…
If you prefer training in a gym or class setting, it’s probably not right for you.
If you’re an advanced fitness trainee or competitive athlete, it’s probably not right for you.
If you hate bodyweight training and love heavy weights, it’s probably not right for you.
And if you’d rather pay more money to have an in-person, face to face coaching experience, then it’s probably not right for you.
This means that one of the first steps in deciding whether or not to use a virtual trainer is to start by asking yourself what you’re looking to accomplish, what you like and what you dislike. Once you know those things, you’ll have a pretty good idea about whether virtual personal trainer programs are right for you.
Wrapping Everything Up – Virtual Personal Trainer Key Points
Hopefully you’ve enjoyed the guide so far. If you happen to have skipped right to end then the key points to remember are that virtual personal trainers bridge the gap between in-person coaching and home workouts, offering an affordable and flexible way to get the most out of your fitness training.
Give them a try and we’re sure you’ll see the benefits for yourself.
