What are your opinions/experiences with personal trainers?

I'm considering getting one to get me started. Hit me up with your actual advice mixed with garbage advice and memes so I don't know what to believe and I end up more confused than when I started writing this.

P.S.: Not a grill

Most personal trainers are retarded. There's nothing a personal trainer can do for you that you can't do for yourself.

They will help you with your form

Just like the tennis trainers at country clubs, they do it for the chance to fuck clients.

>trainer in my gym always makes his clients do hi-rep superset bosu ball type stuff
>mfw he does 3/4/5 for reps like it's nothing
>ask him why he makes his clients do meme workouts
>"it's what they want, user"
>mfw no face for this

Professional bro-scientists

What if I told him I want to look like Ryan Renolds? or Hugh Jackman (at his best)?

Surly this isn't what they did.

I haven't really researched this much but I am fairly certain that a legitiment bodybuilding coach that helps prepare IFBB competitors for competition is about the same price as a 'personal trainer' so why would you ever pick a personal trainer? Same with a powerlifting coach if that's what you are more into, I think. It's at least a fairly close price considering the price for 'personal trainers' these days.

Idiots

George farah charges 5000 bucks just for a nutrition plan , chris aceto and hany wont even glance at you unless youre a 1 in a hundred million genetic outlier and are 100% determined to do what ever it takes.

So no you wont get proper ifbb coaches with your mcjob money if youre lucky you get meme shit looking coaches off of youtube or instagram scammers like panda.

Gains goblins. There is a reason they give you a shit program that takes a year to see any progress. That reason is so they can charge you more and more for the hours you spend doing 10 sets of 10 on the right rhomboid pull-down machine.

If they put someone on SS or something they wouldn't see a dime after the first few sessions.

I did a "guided workout" at the YMCA. If anything it helped calm my nerves about being in a gym and using unfamiliar equipment. But really just

Some people on fit genuinely offer good advice you just have to find them. Save your money and just ask any questions here.

I agree personal trainers are overpriced. But you are way to deep into the SS meme train

>be a male personal trainer
>get Veeky Forums
>end up making bank as a whole bunch of milfy soccer moms and geeky college girls pay to have you train them
>end up seducing your clients and get free pussy

why doesnt Veeky Forums do this????????????/

As someone who has done PT I can say for sure that SS is what most people want. The most common reason I hear for people who hired me was "I just want to stop being sore and become healthier." Squats and DL fix all lower body aches from sitting in a cubicle from 9-5 and presses help with kyphosis. Have them do that with some cardio on Tuesday's and Thursday's and a simple 45 minute barbell routine is what most people need. All I have done this for keep in touch for future advice and not a single bad report from any client.

(I take out power clean for old folks but keep it in for yougins)

Personal trainers aren't there to give workout advice. Imagine them more as personal babysitters to keep you doing something you don't want to do. If you had no willpower/were 400 lbs, you might consider getting one too. Imagine them as your parents saying do your homework back when you were a kid and you get what a personal trainer is really about.

This is why I fork out for one. I only see him once a week but he keeps me motivated to go work out by myself on other days. I won't say "don't want to do", it was more a "excessively-drink-and-needed-to-justify-cutting-down".

It also helped me overcome anxiety about actually going. At first it was good because I knew somebody there considering I paid him. Some of the non-autist depressive/anxious types in Veeky Forums could benefit from a voice of encouragement at the gym, too. Often people aren't comfortable to give out advice or call out somebody who isn't using proper form, at least with a PT you have somebody teaching you proper form.

How can you tell when a coach really believes in your goals? I just started strongman training and want to be elite in a few years, and I think the guy I'm working with really believes in my ability and my determination, but how would Veeky Forums know when a coach actually thinks you will succeed?

because real life isnt a fucking porno you autist...thats a great way to ruin your income stream

They ride your ass hard. No point wasting effort on someone you think is a dud.

I got a lot out of a personal trainer especially when starting out. We started with all the low weight hi rep suit so that I could get use to the movement but we still did enough that I saw a good improvement in strength very quickly.
Most personal trainers are a meme though

Mine was different, she was stacked and massively into boxing.

PT here... some truths:
>you don't retain customers by giving them highly effective routines
>you want customers to improve but them relapse
>a customer who believes they are doing well is better than a customer who is doing well