Review: YourTrainer.Com Can Help You Lose Weight

San Diego voted, Top 10 cities for physical activities, has seen a growing number of personal trainers promising hopefuls for losing weight and looking like Brad Pitt. 

Emphasizing the connection between client and trainer, YourTrainer.com simplifies the process of finding the right personal trainer online, maximizing exercise, and fitness goals.

YouTrainer.Com

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When was the last time you went online to find a personal trainer? If your answer was, "Actually, not long ago," you are not alone. Recent statistics indicate that nearly 10 million Americans a month are taking to the search engines of the Internet to find a health and fitness professional. Between the ads for local gyms, the infomercials for home workout programs, and the goals saved somewhere on the refrigerator doors of our minds, the pressure to succeed in getting healthier is intense, and the maxim holds that working with a personal trainer helps people reach their goals faster. After all, there is no one regimen that will work for every person, as every person has their own history, lifestyle, limitations, and strengths.

In fact, the only three elements to any workout routine that have been identified to work for every person are intensity, variety, and consistency. The reason programs like the vaunted P90X are so successful is, first, the broad range of exercises and disciplines included within. Second, they are often far more intense than the average individual has experienced before, and, finally, their design is such that a home user is encouraged to daily do the workout. While this format can work for a lot of people, there are those that need daily interaction with others in their exercise routine, that need someone to tailor a program specifically for their body types and fitness goals, or that simply do better when working out somewhere outside the home.

Enter the good folks at YourTrainer.com, an optimized website designed to help trainers connect with the people who want to find them.

"The more I investigated into the numbers behind the people searching for a trainer, and the really, honestly, bad Internet presence of the fitness industry, the more I realized, people on both sides of the table needed help connecting," explains Jeffrey Swett, YourTrainer’s founder. What he discovered online was a disorganized landscape where some national trainers crowded out local professionals, the big gyms pushed individual trainers further down on search result pages, and a general lack of order that made the search for a trainer a frustrating exercise.

The theory behind YourTrainer.com is simple: create a site where people can browse trainer profiles based first on location, and then on factors such as interests, rates, and credentials, among others. And because the trainers pay for membership on the site, viewing and connecting with them is free for clients. That is right, you read that correctly. Unlike a dating site, this is completely free to you, the client. And because they believe that the personal connection between trainer and client is the number one indicator of future success in reaching fitness goals, YourTrainer suggests clients contact two or three trainers before committing to one.

The site was launched late last year, and as a new presence in the industry, the number of area trainers is small and growing rapidly. Because it is currently lean in content aside from trainer profiles, the YourTrainer staff is committed to filling it out with high-quality articles, offers, and resources from and for both trainers and clients. Their stated goal is to create a robust site where people can connect, increase their knowledge base, and find more tools to help them reach their goals and set new ones.

Losing weight, gaining muscle, and improving endurance and flexibility is hard work, and the right trainer can make a world of difference.