Over the years I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon with personal trainers in Vancouver. The best personal trainers are almost always horrible marketers, and most of them actually don’t even have websites or do any marketing. Yet they’re all ridiculously busy and train their clients out of a high-end personal training studio in Kitsilano. Many pro athletes in Vancouver choose to train there with one of those trainers instead of at the team facility with the team trainer.

So needless to say, the trainers at the aforementioned studio are the cream of the crop, and yet most of them would be next to impossible for the average person in Vancouver to find.

On the other end of the spectrum are the trainers who excel at marketing. Over the years, I’ve noticed that the best marketers are almost always by far the most clueless and inept trainers. For example, if you Google “vancouver personal trainer”, the first two pages of results are a showcase of the worst trainers in Vancouver. Most of them have no clue what the hell they’re doing, and often they don’t care. I used to workout at the same gym that one of those trainers ran his business out of, and he would actually read email on his Blackberry for large amounts of time during personal training sessions with his clients.

There might be a high quality trainer in your area who’s also a smart marketer, but that would be an exception. In all likelihood, the best trainers in your area either don’t have websites, or they don’t know how to optimize their websites for Google, and therefore their sites are buried deep within the search results where you’ll probably never find them.

So how do you find the best trainer in your area? Simple, word of mouth. You won’t find the best trainer in your area on Google, that’s for goddamn sure. No, instead of hiring some pushy salesman / inept trainer off Google, you should start to ask around and see if you can discover where all of the people who can afford to hire any trainer they want choose to train.

Ask the CEO of the company you work at where he or she works out at. I bet you it’s not with one of those clowns from the front page of Google with the pushy sales letter that reminds you of one of those fitness gadget infomercials. Chances are, the wealthy CEO probably trains at the same type of private, unadvertised personal training studio that I described earlier. Certainly that’s where the vast majority of Vancouver’s wealthiest and most successful businesspeople workout at.

The bottom line is that to find the best trainers in your area, you’ll almost certainly have to do some offline investigation, and possibly even some Sherlock Holmes level sleuthing. Ask around, talk to people who are well connected and who you think might have the inside info about where the best personal trainers are at. I guarantee you that there’s at least a few amazing trainers in your area, and you almost certainly won’t find them via a Google search.

Also, ironically, the gym that I saw the inept personal trainer and her client doing that crazy band/BOSU/jump exercise at is actually the exact gym that the jackass personal trainer from my previous post currently works at. Clearly not exactly Vancouver’s most skilled team of trainers working there.

So to summarize. Yes, there are absolutely positively wrong ways to exercise (exhibit A: jumping onto a BOSU). Most personal trainers are complete idiots, so be careful who you get your exercise information from. And hilariously, many of Vancouver’s most inept trainers are apparently working together at the same gym.

Q2. Is there a Wrong Way to workout ??

A2. No there is No wrong way to work out but there is a right way. It Can cause you problems if you are training the wrong way but it is still beneficial to workout incorrectly than not at all. Learning the right way to Workout in Vancouver at Home or Work, Will help you get the results you want in 6 weeks rather than 6 months with less risk of injury.

What an unbelievably stupid moron that guy is. Of course there are wrong ways to exercise. In some cases there are extremely wrong ways to workout. Any fitness professional who says otherwise is a dangerous fool.

Over the years I’ve participated in various group fitness classes run by other companies in Vancouver, and I’ve been on the client side of a few Vancouver personal training sessions. Some of the workouts have been good, some ok, and some horrible. But one thing remains very consistent among the workouts I’ve experienced that have been run by other companies in Vancouver: they’re BORING. Painfully boring.

Working out should be fun. If you’re not having fun with your workouts, you’re doomed to failure and you will not reach your fitness goals. If you aren’t enjoying your workouts, you probably won’t exercise consistently, and even if you do exercise semi-regularly, if you’re not having fun you will not push yourself at the high-intensity required to see great results from your exercise efforts.

Exercise CAN be fun, if you find the right trainer. If you’re currently working out with a personal trainer in Vancouver and you’re not having a blast, you should find a new personal trainer. Life’s too short to be spending any time at all doing boring workouts that you don’t enjoy or look forward to.

Mode Athletics provides corporate fitness programs and personal training services to clients in Vancouver. You’ll love our workouts and have a blast exercising or we’ll give you your money back.

The answer is, hell yes it’s possible to have an awesome workout in only 30 minutes.

60-minute workouts are completely unnecessary. The vast majority of Vancouver personal trainers that offer 60-minute sessions will devote huge blocks of time during the workout to pointless stuff like jogging and crunches. Also, 60-minute personal training sessions often involve a lot of time-wasting chatter between client and trainer.

If you’re looking to save some money and time without sacrificing any results, consider hiring a personal trainer in Vancouver that offers 30-minute sessions.

One negative experience in particular stands out as important towards pushing me to start my own business, and shaping that business into what it has become today. The negative experience I speak of involved working for a personal training company in downtown Vancouver. The guy running the company and overseeing the team of trainers was without a doubt the most boring fitness professional I’ve ever met. He was a miserable person to be around, and his training style was “all business”. No smiles, no jokes, no fun.

Working out must be an enjoyable experience. If you don’t have fun with your workouts, and look forward to exercising, you’ll never get results.

When I started my own Vancouver personal training company, the goal has always been to make exercise fun. I go out of my way to make sure my clients enjoy and look forward to all of their workouts. By making exercise fun, your workout consistency will be higher, you will push yourself harder, and higher consistency plus increased intensity equals better and faster results.

There are a lot of great personal trainers in Vancouver, but there are also just as many horrible personal trainer in Vancouver.

For example, one trainer boasts on his website that if you train with him, you will “effortlessly transform your body”. Sounds kind of like something you’d hear on one of those informercials for a completely useless ab gadget.

If there’s one thing about burning fat that’s more important than anything else, it’s that it requires effort. A lot of effort. You have to be very consistent with your workouts (effort), improve your diet (effort), push yourself very hard when you do exercise (effort), and continue to work hard and see progression from workout to workout (effort).

There is absolutely nothing about fat-burning that’s effortless.

I don’t lie to people and tell them getting in shape is easy. It’s not easy. It requires a lot of effort. That’s why I motivate my clients better than any other trainer in Vancouver, so that my clients are able to push themselves as hard as they need to in order to see the results that they desire.

For a personal training company in Vancouver that’s not going to lie to you and tell you burning fat is easy, check out Mode Athletics. We’ll motivate you to get fit, and you’ll have a lot of fun with our intense fat-burning circuit training workouts, but nothing about it will be easy.

My sister had her own story for me about a new client she recently started training. According to the client, her previous personal trainer (in Vancouver) put her on the recumbent bike for the first 35 minutes of every session (while the trainer just walked around the gym talking to people).

It’s hard to find value in a $100 (yes, that’s how much the trainer charged) personal training session when your trainer leaves you on a cardio machine for over half the session.

Unfortunately, these stories are very common. It’s incredibly hard to find a personal trainer in Vancouver that’s passionate about fitness and truly dedicated to helping their clients reach and exceed all of their fitness goals.

For elite personal training in Vancouver from motivated and passionate trainers who are as excited about your success as you are, visit my Personal Training Vancouver website.

I recently got a membership at a local gym, and I was there doing a workout this afternoon and I saw a personal trainer who I had previously only ever seen online on his website and YouTube videos.

Based on what I saw of him online, I had thought that he was a decent personal trainer.

Today I saw him training a client, and although I wasn’t intently watching him, the times that I did happen to glance over at him, he was usually checking his Blackberry, and in one case actually typing on it. This was during the personal training session. Amazing.

If I paid my hard-earned money for a personal training session and my trainer was more concerned with his Blackberry than my workout, I’d never train with that person again. Ever.

And if one of my employees ever takes out their Blackberry while they’re supposed to be running my Vancouver boot camp program, that will be the last boot camp workout that person ever runs for me.

I provide all of the equipment (medicine balls, dumbbells, resistance bands, gymnastics rings, jump ropes, kick shields, etc) used during my Vancouver boot camp classes. Most (if not all) other Vancouver boot camp programs require their participants to bring their own equipment (mat and light dumbbells), and it’s very difficult to have an intense results focussed workout when only working out with light dumbbells.

I run my classes in a circuit training style where I setup stations, and each person has a partner, and they pick a station to start at, and then rotate around the circuit. Other boot camp programs are run such that everyone just gets in a circle with their light dumbbells and they all do the same exercises for 60 minutes.

My classes are much smaller than other boot camp programs. I cap my classes at 10 people. Many other boot camp companies in Vancouver run classes with 20 to 40+ people in one class. Having less people per class means that the participants get more attention from me, and I can keep a closer eye on them to make sure everyone is working hard, doing their best, and most importantly exercising safely.

Most boot camp programs are 3 or 5 days per week. Mine is 2 or 3 days per week. This is because the intensity of my workouts is very high, and 2 or 3 days per week is all that is needed to see great results. Actually, doing my workout program more then 3 days per week would result in overtraining and would do more harm than good.

I’m a certified personal trainer, which is very much a rare thing to find in a boot camp instructor. Most boot camp instructors are uncertified, or possess a “boot camp instructor” certification from the company they work for, which isn’t a credible certification (when the employer certifies their own employees, that’s not an objective process). If you are exercising with an uncertified trainer, you are unlikely to see very much results from your efforts, and you may very well be putting your safety at risk.