Finding the perfect personal trainer is all about finding someone who understands your needs. There are plenty of qualified trainers based in London but there are only a select few who can really help you.

A female personal trainer can help you get to the next stage of your fitness journey. Sometimes it can be difficult exercising without goals in mind or structured workouts. Ideally, you will find an experienced personal trainer that understands your needs and helps you set new goals.

The Ideal Female Personal Trainer Will:

1. Understand Your Needs

If you are wondering whether you should get a male or female personal trainer you should consider who can best understand your needs. It is important that you are able to communicate clearly and have fun with your trainer.

It will be easier to achieve your goals if your personal trainer understands your health and fitness needs.

2. Help Establish Goals

A great personal trainer will help you to establish a routine and solidify your aspirations. It is always easy to work out if you have a goal in mind.

Whether you are looking to lose weight, gain muscle or become more flexible, a personal trainer will help to do so by setting achievable goals. It is important to be realistic but not pessimistic when establishing your health and fitness aspirations.

3. Have Experience

Your ideal female personal trainer should have experience. I can tell you from my own experience that over time you develop knowledge and skills that can’t be learned overnight.

Ultimately you are trusting a personal trainer with maintaining and improving your body. So, it is important that they have experience helping other people. A great personal trainer will have valid testimonials.

4. Demonstrate Expertise

Along with having substantial experience and a conscientious attitude a personal trainer should also be able to demonstrate their expertise. In the UK there are various personal training qualifications that will attest to a trainers level of skill and knowledge.

A trial session is usually a good way to gauge the expertise of a personal trainer. After a couple sessions it should be clear if they are the right trainer for you.

A Reliable Trainer

It is important that you look for a real personal trainer. There are a lot of phoney trainers around that have the looks but lack the expertise. If you want to find a female personal trainer, browsing Instagram celebrities with fake likes is not the way to do it.

A reliable trainer should be committed to improving the health and fitness of their clients. Fundamentally, this comes down to training hard and eating well. If a personal trainer is constantly urging you to buy the latest weight loss smoothie or proposing miracle fixes, then you know they are not reliable.

Don’t wait any longer! Now you know what makes a great personal trainer you can kickstart your new health and fitness routine. Please feel free to get in contact and book a session!

When you are thinking about personal training convenience will be towards the top of the list of priorities. For some it can be difficult to get to the gym and others may feel self-conscious about exercising in public. Working out at home is the ideal solution.

it is important to inform your exercise with expertise and experience if you are considering training at home. You can find lots online about exercising at home. The trouble is that such a wealth of information can sometimes be overwhelming and produce conflicting opinions.

The best way to get fit at home is with a personal trainer.

About Me

I am a female personal trainer with over eight years of experience training in and around London. Over time I have developed a top service providing personal training sessions in and outside gyms. More recently I have noticed a surge in demand for female fitness trainers in London. In particular, more and more people are asking for home sessions.

I take pride in my work and focus on giving each client a tailored fitness experience. I have helped many people achieve their health and fitness goals.

Home Exercises

There are plenty of exercises that you can do at home with the help of a personal trainer. It all depends on your fitness preferences and goals. Many clients like to work out with the equipment I have. There is also the possibility of doing simple exercises using the furniture you have at home. I also run many personal training sessions in gardens and nearby parks.

You can also take a look at the NHS 10-minute home cardio workout. This easy cardio routine shows what kind of exercises can be executed effectively in the comfort of your own home.

Advantages of Training at Home

1. Inexpensive

The costs of training at home are relatively small. Most good gyms will set you back quite a bit. Often you will find yourself paying for facilities at the gym that you never use. It is far less costly to train at home.

The cost of a female personal trainer at home are small in comparison. The advantage of training at home is that you only need to purchase the equipment that you absolutely intend to use. A lot of personal training at home can be done without expensive equipment.

• Privacy

The main advantage of training at home is the privacy. Many people can get distracted and lose motivation when training at a gym. When you are home on your own or with a trainer you can focus.

A personal trainer can give you their full attention and you don’t have to worry about what other people are doing.

• Saves Time

Having a personal trainer come to you at home will save you time. There is no need to waste your time getting stuck in traffic on the way to the gym. It is an efficient way of getting fit.

Scheduling a few sessions a week with a female personal trainer at home is an effective way of improving your health and fitness. Training with me will also save you time in the long run.

Successful Training

If you are looking to find a female personal trainer you have come to the right place. I look to combine experience and enthusiasm to make my training sessions as effective as possible.

Please feel to get in touch and book a session!

Finding the right exercise for you might seem to be an absolute mission impossible. With a huge amount of variety of exercises and techniques to use it can all get very confusing.

The only way to find the right training routine and exercises is to know exactly what you want and understand which exercises are going to give you the most benefits.

Today i’m going to explain anatomy behind top back exercise you can’t go wrong with.

Anatomical Breakdown

Let’s analise step by step the biggest back muscles you need to know before choosing your back exercises:

Latissimus dorsi

Also known as lats. This is a huge flat muscle on your back stretching to the sides. Latissimus dorsi is the biggest upper body muscles therefore it is extremely important to know how to strengthen this muscle.

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This large muscle is responsible for extension, adduction, transverse extension also known as horizontal abduction, flexion from an extended position and (medial) internal rotation of the shoulder joint.

It also has a synergistic role in extension and lateral flexion of the lumbar spine. In the other words lats are responsible for depression, adduction, extension and internal rotation of the arm at the shoulder. Aesthetically lats can create that very desirable triangle shape. See physio-pedia.com.

Trapezius

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The trapezius muscle is divided in two major groups: upper-trapezius and lower trapezius muscle. Trapezius is very  important back muscle. Its superficial flat and wide muscle covering most of the upper back and lower part of neck.

Trapezius is responsible for moving, rotating and stabilising scapula. Aesthetically trapezius can create an impressive look in terms of your upper back.

Erector Spinae Muscles

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Erector spinae is not only one muscle but a set of muscles and tendons which run along your spine. It is divided in 3 different columns:

• Iliocostalis (check Wikipedia link here)
• Longissimus (check Wikipedia link here)
• Spinalis (check Wikipedia link here)
  

Erector spinae’s function is to rotate and straighten your back.

To Exercises for Your Back

**Please note: before starting back workout make sure you have warmed up your elbows with some triceps work like bodyweight dips (check out this link); as triceps are heavily involved in almost every back exercise. 

Chin Ups

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See Wikipedia here on chin ups. This is a multi joint back exercise which also helps you to work your biceps, forearms and triceps.

IMPORTANT – make sure you have a good grip on the bar, keep your body straight at all times, squeeze your buttox and try to avoid swinging.

Variations – resistance band chin ups, helps for beginners and especially females, resting feet on the floor, changing your grip from wide to close or your changing hand position to pronated or supinated grip.

Pay attention – do not start chin up  with jerky movement. It can cause shoulder injury.

Rowing

This is a multi joint exercise involving almost all back muscles. You can’t go wrong with adding rowing into your training routine.

Take time to find the best rowing exercises suitable for you. Have a look at this link to get an idea.

Important  – make sure you pull dumbells or bar up to your navel. This way you are going to work out your lower trapezius.

Some people like to bring DB or the bar to their chest or thighs. This is not the correct way to perform row.

Variations – single arm rowing, bend over rowing, seated rowing, standing rowing, cable machine rowing, every gym has one or two different rowing machines including cardio rowing machine.

Pay attention –  don’t let your trapezius do all the work, as sometimes this could happen and whole exercise can lose its benefits. Keep your head straight and chin up to avoid unnecessary upper traps involvement.

Deadlifts

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Multi-joint exercise. Working which is targeting multiple muscle groups just in one lift. Extremely important exercise for lower and upper back muscles.

Important – this exercise works spine intensively. There is a high risk of injury if appropriate weight is not being used. Always warm up before deadlifting and choose your progressive overload gradually.

Variations – stiff leg deadlift, resistance band deadlift, sumo deadlift, single leg deadlift, romanian deadlift.

Pay Attention – very IMPORTANT do not round your back at any time whilst deadlifting. If you can’t maintain a straight back, lower the weight. Sometimes the grip can be a big issue for heavy deadlifts. You can use special weightlifting straps.

Final Words

All three exercises are going to be extremely rewarding for your strength and the looks of your back.

Make sure you are going to incorporate these exercises in your next training program. You don’t have to do hundreds of different exercises as long as you can perform these three top back exercises correctly and with the right progressive overload.

I look forward hearing about your gains!