Where else do you get opportunity to consistently meet with someone and every moment of every session its - all about you? Where purpose of every session is help you not just to look better but also to feel better!

Picking right trainer for you and your health needs requires some basic knowledge of fitness field. Both American College Of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and The National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) are national organizations that provide instructional resources and continuing educational requirements but stipulate that each candidate must possess a health degree before being applying for certification.

While others like American Council On Exercise (ACE), National Association for Fitness Certification (NAFC) or The National Federation of Professional Trainers (NFPF) are a lot less stringent for their certification requirements.

Education and experience are important aspects of trainer qualification and selection so ask and find out which credentials your prospective trainer holds however, I believe there are several factors beyond certification, which informed consumer needs to be aware of to ensure customer satisfaction:

1.Does Your Trainer Have A Vision? – I believe every trainer should have a vision of what exercise can be for each of his or her clients. What is their mission statement? How much time and thought have they devoted to “art of fitness instruction?” What do they see possible for you?

What you are really investing in is their vision of how they will be applying exercise to your life to improve its quality. The tools of exercise are myriad forms of resistance and endurance training (I.e. Functional training, free weights, weight machines, balance boards, treadmills, stationary bike, versa climber etc…) along with stretching and relaxation techniques.

Overcoming Boredom

The biggest obstacle to a home exercise routine is sticking with it. You don’t have to drive to a gym, so your home fitness equipment is more convenient. The problem is that other distractions are just as convenient at home. The key is to make your routine fun. You want to look forward to your daily workout. You have to be realistic. Playing with heart rate monitor or watching calorie counter go up will only be fun first couple of times you exercise.

•Treadmill vs. Boredom

On a treadmill, you walk. Walking isn’t that fun. You can walk at different speeds, but that isn’t really much more fun. If you get a treadmill that offers an incline, that keeps it a bit more interesting. Walking uphill isn’t exactly fun, but it’s different. It presents a challenge.

You can’t really read on a treadmill because you are bouncing up and down. You can’t keep your eyes on same sentence, and you usually end up with a headache. Basically, only thing fun to do on a treadmill is watch television or movies. If you are really into TV or movies and are able to put your treadmill in front of a television, you can probably keep your treadmill workout from becoming too boring. Problems consist of commercials, noise coming from machine, and again, bouncing.

•Exercise Bikes vs. Boredom

Exercise bikes are unique in that many of them come programmed with various biking routines. You simulate different courses that require you to sprint, pedal uphill, and perform at different levels within one workout without having to keep pressing buttons and changing everything. You can even select random programs so you don’t know what’s coming, which really keeps you on your toes. Some exercise bikes can even be plugged into televisions and video games to let you interactively pedal through visual courses.

On upright exercise bikes, you run into some of same problems as treadmills as far as reading is concerned. Recumbent bikes, however, allow your hands to be free to hold a book or magazine, video game controller, or phone. Multi-tasking during an exercise bike workout keeps it from becoming boring and allows your workout to more easily fit into a busy schedule.

Defeating boredom to successfully keep up a long-term exercise routine is much easier with an exercise bike than a treadmill.

The Calorie Factor

In a study conducted by Nordic Track, young, healthy people used various exercise machines and did cardio workouts. Although they felt they used same intensity on all machines, they burned most calories on treadmills and ski machines.

On average, most people burn about 750 calories per hour on a treadmill. The same people are likely to burn about 550 calories per hour on an exercise bike. So it’s a no-brainer, right? You should get a treadmill because they burn more calories.

Well, not exactly. You can’t get so caught up in which machine burns most calories. You have to take a lot of other factors into consideration. How likely are you to sustain a treadmill routine as opposed to an exercise bike routine?