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How would y'all recommend finding a personal trainer?
I want someone local, and I have a fitness goal of being in better shape for an upcoming underwater hockey tournament. But otherwise I think I'm flexible. Just don't know what to look for or avoid.
Don't. Just start lifting.
Source: Years of lifting and know personal trainers personally. They will just put you on a cookie cutter plan and spot your lifts. Something you can achieve with 15 minutes of googling and having friends who lift. Unless you are a professional athlete looking to squeeze out a 0.1% performance on the table, it's almost always going to be a waste of time.
And if you don't have enough drive to just start lifting without a trainer, you are not going to stick to it anyways.
Source: Seen this shit happen time and time again.
Why lifting for a cardio heavy sport?
If all you want is to improve your cardio, you definitely don't need a trainer.
It's definitely a motivation problem I'm trying to solve
If it's cardio and a motivation problem, just go to something like a spin class. When I was doing it, it was much cheaper than personal training, given that one trainer could manage the entire class of people rather than just one. I used to joke that I found cardio so boring that it was impossible to motivate myself, so the only way I could do it was to have someone basically yelling what I was supposed to do at me.
Seconded, this is good advice.
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