Online Personal Trainers?

[akadon]

In your opinions, are online personal trainers like Alex Azarian prepbyalex.com effective and good idea? If so, are there any other reputable sites that offer similar services?

 

[ANIMALHAUS]

Never tried it. If you have questions, I'm sure your gym trainer would suffice...

 

[Marat]

Off the top of my head, I don't know much about him or his programming. However, you can certainly find great coaching for very reasonable prices that are don't via email/phone.

 

[ponyboy]

Normally with services like that the guy is giving generic overall advice that you could find on any web site for free (like this one). The nutrition plans are simple and straightforward, and again not geared to the individual person except to gear the macro breakdown to your weight. I'm sure there is more knowledge in the stickies at the top of this and the nutrition forum.

Why pay someone $75 a month for something you can find yourself with a bit of leg work?

 

[doctorcarta]

I'd rather have the real thing in front of me but that's just me

 

[Marat]

Why pay someone $75 a month for something you can find yourself with a bit of leg work?

A partial response is that people are paying to to not have to do the leg work. it's not necessarily laziness but our forum community is a pretty deep dig to get to for an individual who doesn't know anything about fat loss and doesn't immediately associate, for instance, fat loss with bodybuilding. If you google "fat loss", you arrive to a lot of bullshit (although Martin Berkhan is apparently on the front page) before you arrive to anything useful. In regards to fat loss, the public is used to being bombarded by p90x, Weight Watchers, cardio, and elimination diets.

Also, online coaching is a great resource for contest prep coaching...especially the days and hours going to competition.

One can pay Matt Kroczaleski or many other informed coaches/athletes a very reasonable price for online coaching -- it's also certainly much cheaper than getting someone of their track record in person.

 

[ihateschoolmt]

I'd rather have the real thing in front of me but that's just me

Nothing much realer than the information in the stickies here and the advice given in the diet section. I would say that the collective information you can get from this site easily outweighs the knowledge of any one person. Especially since you are getting more than one way of doing things.

 

[returnofthdragon]

Nothing much realer than the information in the stickies here and the advice given in the diet section. I would say that the collective information you can get from this site easily outweighs the knowledge of any one person. Especially since you are getting more than one way of doing things.

The stickies are great. An in-person trainer with good knowledge can help with form where online/phone things can't (unless you video). I will say that over 1/2 the trainers I've encountered are tools with little real knowledge.

At my gym today one of the faggy trainers was doing curls in the squat rack. I so had to wait for him, but so wanted to break him in half. I think they would ban me for that though.

 

[amonroe]

I haven't tried it either...there are some good online training programs but I personally think it'd be very hard to match a 1 on 1 trainer...if not impossible. Probably a lot cheaper though!

 

[Moneytoblow]

I think Twist is still offering online personal training.