<p>For all of you that use trainers, would you mind sharing some info? Do you work with your trainer at your local gym, at a studio owned by your trainer or in your home? Also, if you wouldn’t mind sharing, what do you pay per hour? Thanks!</p>
<p>I work with a trainer at our local gym. My husband and I signed up almost exactly two years ago. At that time we signed up for a contract for 4 30 minute sessions per week at $35 per session (so $70/hour). We split the package and each do 2 workouts per week with our trainers. It was a total leap of faith signing that contract that committed us for a year - we had never workout out with weights before, just knew it was something we needed to do. It has proven to be a terrific decision as we are both more fit than we’ve ever been in our lives now. That said, I loved the trainer I worked with for the first 18 months. She left and I am not happy with the trainer I have been working with for the past 6 months. She’s fine as far as the training goes, but is very negative and always complaining - just not a fun or motivating person to work with. I will switch if I can find someone else available at times that work for me but that seems to be easier said than done. My husband’s trainer is very good but he is booked solid.</p>
<p>Good luck with starting your training business MichaelNKat - you seem so knowledgable that I’m sure you will do well.</p>
<p>I usually meet with a trainer once every 3-4 months to get a new program. I’ve paid between $35-$50 for each session, which lasts an hour. I’ve always met them at the gym that employs them. I loved my first guy – I chose him because of his enthusiasm and joy. Not as excited about the one I have now, and debating just putting together my own routine. </p>
<p>I dragged my daughter out to get a Christmas tree when she was here at Thanksgiving. Perfect day for it. Blue sky, 10 inches of new snow! For some reason, it’s usually raining when I get a tree, so this was a nice change of pace. Picture postcard tree shopping.</p>
<p>Then, I made her help me wrestle it into the stand, and put ornaments on it after I strung the lights.</p>
<p>We went to a pain-free procedure years ago after realizing the folly of trying to decide on the perfect tree. Now, we just go to the right type and height of tree and just buy one without ever cutting the tightly wrapped twine. Eliminates the comparison shopping and makes it a lot easier to drag home! As Forrest Gump would say, “Christmas tree shopping is like a box of chocolates…”</p>
<p>I work out with a trainer at our gym. I buy packages of hours, so the price adjusts based upon how much you are purchasing. An individual (just me) hour of Pilates is $40; small group (3 participants) is $20; partner pricing is $28. Same prices apply for just “regular” training. </p>
<p>iDad, I was wondering how you managed your tree - glad your D could help you. So far ours is still standing. Last year Sabapup was too little to do much damage - not so sure this year. </p>
<p>At the gym, $70 an hour for one on one, but can be shorter and can pull in other people. He has maybe ten years of experience doing this, retired Army before that. Army job was related to fitness/training/rehabbing special forces. </p>
<p>This guy is good with rehab and has a big and inspiring personality. Also very creative in coming up with work outs and combining groups of people. It started out as a one on one relationship, but over the summer, I was pulled into a group of young men training to go to service academies. No way I could do what they did, but with modifications we could work together. Currently I am the fittest in a group of new exercisers/perennially starting over exercisers who are my age. </p>
<p>The biggest danger? People use him as a counselor. He ends up helping people with their kids and their marriages and their jobs. </p>
<p>I have worked with others in the past for brief periods of time. My goal then was to get a weight work out. I love running/swimming/biking anything with action, but don’t like lifting. Current guy is great with older, broken down folks (like me).</p>
<p>Haven’t done any exercise for the last two days because H and I have been closing up our vacation place and moving stuff in and out of storage. I was going to walk today, but it’s cold with rain/sleet and just miserable. I did sign up for a vinyasa yoga class tomorrow.</p>
<p>M&K: At the gym where I’m a member I buy a package of 10 personal training sessions and get a discount on the hourly rate. I pay $60 instead of $70 by buying the packet. </p>
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Damn runners. Need to keep MOWC and her ilk off the trails.</p>
<p>Betcha they are especially concerned about lawyers running in there!! ;)</p>
<p>Dragged myself to the gym, 5.55 miles with my friend the treadmill. Too hard to get up and out in the morning (it was too icy today anyway) and I’d have a hard time telling the dogs their playtime wasn’t going to happen so I could run after work. I think just getting into a routine will be a help. </p>
<p>“For all of you that use trainers, would you mind sharing some info? Do you work with your trainer at your local gym, at a studio owned by your trainer or in your home? Also, if you wouldn’t mind sharing, what do you pay per hour? Thanks!” </p>
<p>I do strength training twice a week at 5:30 am with a trainer through my park district gym (so, a fairly no-frills place). I buy packages of 10 sessions at $400, so $40 apiece. That’s a resident rate; it is higher for non residents but I don’t know by how much. </p>
<p>I do private pilates twice a week at 6 am at a different place - it is a fitness club that I don’t belong to. The woman I take it from used to work at my park district and I followed her when she moved to this center. I buy packages of 10 at $670 apiece, so $67. I will sometimes use the cardio in this club when I go there; as long as it is before or after a session, no one cares. </p>
<p>Then I belong to Corepower Yoga (monthly unlimited) and just take classes there as my schedule permits. There are studios near both my home and work, so it’s catch as catch can. </p>
<p>We have an exercise bike at home but don’t have the facilities / setup to have a trainer come to my house. </p>
<p>Hope that helps. </p>
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Wow, that’s quite a deterrent.</p>
<p>I’m guessing the people who made this rule couldn’t catch a cold in the winter.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone for your responses. Very helpful! </p>
<p>Received all the materials today for my Functional Movement Assessment and Training certification. Some very interesting stuff. Guess I know how I’ll be spending my next month :).</p>
<p>Wow, I have to say I’m shocked at some of the trainer costs! Clearly I have never gone this route! Those are some hefty rates IMO. Actually planning to ask my university fitness center (which technically is run by the Y now) about rates - I’ll be shocked if it’s as much as revealed above in some cases. </p>
<p>That’s part of my running route, actually. I run on the paved Brentwood trails regularly and I’ve been up into the new park on the paved part. Now I want to try the trail! 
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<p>Locked up in cyber-breach training all morning watching the red bar on my Vivifit grow. Ran a mile before the early start and hope for more after work. </p>
<p>Ran inside in our new fitness center at work on the dreadmill for a short run yesterday. We need some fans, which we are getting.</p>
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<p>Interesting on two a days. I’ve been doing this a lot due to time constraints.</p>
<p>I am trying to psych myself to go the gym. What I really want to do is eat a huge chocolate cake. I really dislike cold damp overcast weather – and the dark months of November, December and January. At least in the summer if I’m feeling unmotivated I can usually drag myself to take a walk, even if I procrastinate until early evening. </p>
<p>Go to the gym - then reevaluate if you want the chocolate cake. Do something good before something bad. 
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<p>I’ve been doing all my workouts outside or at home for the last how many months. I should go make use of the gym again one of these days!</p>
<p>When I belonged to a pretty fancy health club, they charged $60/hour for personal training. If you bought a package you could knock that down a little bit.</p>
<p>Even at lower end clubs the price has been in that ballpark, and every club I’ve ever belonged to prohibits you from using a trainer who is not an employee, which is understandable I guess. I’m guessing the trainer gets around half of what you pay the club.</p>
<p>DW goes to a trainer once a week who has his own studio (it is in a storefront, not his house), that runs about $70 per session, which is somewhere between 60-90 minutes. the downside there is that since it’s not a health club she can’t go there to work out at other times, so she only does weight training in that one session per week.</p>