Pilates for Health – Come as You Are, Move Toward Your Goals
Maggie Schlegel
April 21, 2025
- Maggie Schlegel
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Is it Time to Work With a Personal Trainer? Here are 5 Reasons Personal Training Can Help You…
Whether your fitness goals are big or small it can be hard to know how to reach them. With loads of information crowding the internet about how to workout – creating your own workouts can quickly lead to burnout and overwhelm.
At Sultivate, we not only offer reformer Pilates and Group fitness… we also own and manage a 24/7 hour fitness center called The Gym at Sultivate.
Whether you want to workout by yourself at midnight… or need some extra help from a personal trainer – we’ve got you covered.
Today we’re diving into some of the reasons why a Personal Trainer may be for you.
1. Working out With a Personal Trainer Provides Motivation & Accountability
Let’s face it… hitting the gym on a regular basis can get stale fast. Just because you have fitness goals doesn’t mean you’re prepared to put in the work to meet them.
Is anyone else struggling to sign up for that Turkey trot on Thanksgiving?
But the truth is – providing your own motivation to workout is so much harder than having an outside “cheerleader” rooting for you and pushing you to do more.
In fact, less than 20% of people who start an execise program by themselves actually follow through with it.1
That’s where a Personal Trainer can come into play.
One of their jobs is to know your goals and keep you on track to meet them. Plus, when you have someone asking how your workouts are going… and there in person for them… it can be easier to give it your all.
This is why teams are so important for athletes – and why even solo sports are organized into teams. It’s a lot easier to keep the motivation.
But as adults, team sports are a lot harder to come across. This is where a Personal Trainer can really help you stay on track.
They provide the accountability you may need to keep up with a regular workout routine.
They can also help you with designing that workout routine in the first place.
2. A Personal Trainer Can Take the Overwhelm Out of Working Out
Have you ever found yourself on the way to the gym – feeling less than enthusiastic about what you have planned for the day?
Or maybe you don’t even know what you’ll do and you find yourself either aimlessly wandering to various exercise machines with no real idea of where to go next…
If you have fitness goals you’re working towards and you’re regularly going to the gym, it can get really stale… really fast.
It often leads to you hitting up your stand-by piece of equipment. Maybe the treadmill, or the stairmaster, or even the elliptical.
And while all movement is good movement, doing the same workout over and over won’t help make your workout any more exciting.
Working out with a Personal Trainer can help you vary your workouts. Spark new ideas. Even teach you new things that can help you meet your goals. Expert guidance will level up your fitness program quickly.2
And let’s face it… sometimes it’s hard to know what to do to even meet your fitness goals.
3. Working out With a Personal Trainer Allows You to Meet Your Goals Faster
Personal Trainers can help with goal setting AND goal meeting too. They typically have advanced knowledge and training that allows them to set smaller benchmarks. Benchmarks that will help you achieve what you’re working towards.
Setting smaller goals to reach your larger goals can help you feel more confident and accomplished throughout your fitness journey.
Your Personal Trainer will be able to show you where you’re excelling and what parts of your workout routine may need some extra work.
Let’s face it, we all have different strengths and weaknesses when it comes to working out. While we are often good at building on our strengths, our weaknesses are where we trip up.
A Personal Trainer will understand your weaknesses better than you do. They’ll also know how to build them into strengths. While this may be something you’re able to figure out over time, a Personal Trainer can jumpstart your progress.
Speaking of weaknesses…
4. When You Work With a Personal Trainer There Is Less Risk of Injury
When you workout by yourself and you’re working on movements that are difficult for you, you’re at much higher risk for injury than when you’re building on your strengths.
Whether you have muscle imbalances you’re struggling to balance or actual old injuries… working out at a gym can often get you hurt as easily as it builds strength.
A Personal trainer can:
- Spot you when you’re lifting heavy.
- Perfect your form throughout all your exercises.3
- Suggest alternate positioning if a movement proves too difficult.
- Help you with more effective rehab workouts if you already have old injuries.
- Provide alternate exercises to build the right muscles to support you in more difficult exercises down the road.
Having a Professional with you as you workout can take a lot of the fear and uncertainty out of the mix.
You may think of Personal Training as being more effective for athletes. But the truth is… Personal Training can be effective for anyone trying to meet fitness goals. Even if that goal is just to ‘get fitter’.
Adding a Personal Trainer to your routine can be effective even if it isn’t your main workout.
5. Combining Personal Training With Your Solo Workouts Can Get You Great Results
You don’t have to spend thousands on Personal Training every month to get the benefits. Incorporating Personal training into your regular routine will get you great benefits as well.
If you prefer to workout 2-5 times a week by yourself and just do weekly check-ins… or even biweekly… you can still get some amazing benefits from working with a Personal Trainer.
Here’s an example of how your week could look:
Monday: take a group fitness class in your community
Tuesday: Solo weight training session for maintaining muscles
Wednesday: Go for a walk or better yet a hike
Thursday: Meet with your Personal Trainer for a weight session and to determine where you’re at in meeting your goals
Friday: Cardio by yourself – maybe at the gym or running in the park
Saturday: Take a Reformer Pilates class to finish strong
Sunday: Rest and recover
Incorporating different types of exercise into your routine can remove boredom and keep your week fun and fresh.
If you have bigger fitness goals you might meet with a Personal Trainer twice a week.
If you have smaller fitness goals you might meet with your Personal Trainer twice a month.
Either way, a good Personal Fitness Trainer can keep you on track and be a great alternative to just hitting the gym by yourself every day.
Are Personal Trainers Worth It?
The short answer… Personal Trainers can benefit you in so many ways as you work towards your fitness goals.
- Build motivation and accountability into your workouts
- Get personalized recommendations for your workouts
- Meet your fitness goals faster
- Avoid injury with your workouts
- Fit it into your workout routine for a more varied approach to fitness.
Learn about our Personal Fitness options at The Gym at Sultivate… the most exclusive gym in Cottonwood, AZ.
Resources:
1 Exercise Adherence – Total Coaching
2 Stay accountable – Gymdesk
3 Perfect your form – Australian Institute of Fitness
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