In the past, I believed that it is luxury to work with a personal trainer.

What I learned along the way was that the luxury is having a personal trainer who lacks the willingness to adapt his training to the client. That is, someone who is not investing himself in enhancing his craft and developing the ability to create bespoke training.

It’s a luxury as it takes much longer to achieve healthy results and to coach oneself.

A personal trainer who is engaged in providing bespoke training is willing not to know what the result of the exercise will be. He learns from the result and takes it as an opportunity to create new exercises that serve the objective of the training. In doing so he accepts the development of the trainee and finds a path to the desired performance.

For the trainee, it means that what he puts in also is what he’ll get out of the training. He’s invited to think about whatever is happening and learns how to develop it further. May it be through conversations, descriptions of what his experience is, or the way he understands the concepts and questions them when they don’t match reality.

It’s also how he contributes to making it bespoke.

As much as a trainer may be able to observe, he can’t feel what the trainee feels, nor can he know what the trainee thinks.

Bespoke is the result of a coach and a client engaging together in the work and adapting it to an outcome that can be achieved.