When interviewing for a personal trainer, just because they look the part doesn’t mean they know what they are doing. Ask questions. If the conversation begins with a sales pitch for a weight-loss shake or other product-line, end the conversation and look for someone else. A great trainer should be listening to YOU, answering your…
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Vertex Fitness Puts The PERSONAL In Personal Trainer – Linda Garfield, Testimonial On June 4, I was at a training session at Vertex Fitness with Dwayne, my personal trainer, when my cell phone rang. I told Dwayne I had to take the call. I walked away from the machines to sit on the sofa and hear the breast…
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Why You Cannot Do Personal Training in a Vacuum Part 2: Client’s Perspective In my last post, I wrote about personal training and it’s similarities to refereeing fencing. Wait, what does refereeing a sport that most people are unfamiliar with have in common with my job as a personal trainer? The answer is both have…
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Why You Cannot Do Personal Training in a Vacuum Part 1: The Trainer’s Perspective It you want to to get into personal training? You need to work outside the bubble. I’ve been working as a personal trainer at Vertex Fitness for a little over three months, and although this isn’t a very long time, I…
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The Relationship Between Frequency, Duration, and Exercise Intensity: Why These 3 Terms Matter Lets start with the relationship between duration and exercise intensity: duration is the amount of time in which you participate in a single bout of exercise, and intensity is a measure of how hard you work during a single workout. These two…
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Working the Whole Body I love working out at Vertex Fitness. The whole staff are phenomenal personal trainers. They’re encouraging, patient, knowledgeable, and somehow know what my body is capable of (even when I’m not even sure myself). There’s been days I’ve walked through the door at Vertex and have totally not been in the…
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