Is personal training necessary for posture correction

It’s really not a generalization. It’s neither a necessity that everyone must buy, nor a proper IQ tax. Whether you should look for it or not depends entirely on the degree of your own problems, your self-learning ability, and whether you can meet a reliable coach. In fact, it’s essentially the same as whether you should see a specialist when you are sick. Small problems can be solved by yourself, and it really saves a lot of trouble to find a professional for complex problems.

I have been in the fitness industry for almost 6 years and have seen too many examples of pitfalls and benefits. Not long ago, I met a girl who works as a content operator. She is 27 years old. Her head has been stretched forward and her shoulders have been rounded for almost two years. She usually suffers from shoulder and neck pain in the afternoon that makes her feel like vomiting. It also triggers migraines, and her cervical vertebrae become a little straightened during the filming. I followed various "seven days to correct head extension" videos on the Internet for half a year. The trapezius muscles became stronger and stronger, and the shoulder pain was not cured at all. Later, I found a certified posture corrector who first performed a full body posture scan on her. Even her usual She asked clearly about her typing posture and the height of the pillow she should sleep on. Finally, she found that the root of her problem was not her shoulders, but that her waist straightened due to long-term sitting. Her upper body moved forward compensatoryly, and she even breathed through the chest, which aggravated the tension in her shoulders and neck. Later, she did back training before the course even started. She first adjusted her breathing and core strength for two weeks, then relaxed her pectoralis minor muscles and trained her deep rhomboids. In less than two months, the angle of forward extension of her head had returned to almost 6 degrees, and she almost never had migraines again. Do you think a personal trainer is unnecessary in this situation? That is really delaying yourself.

Of course, I have also seen many people spend money unnecessarily. Last year, a young man who had just entered college came to me to complain, saying that he had a slight breast enlargement. The gym salesman tricked him into buying 30 posture correction classes. The coach asked him to deadlift and pull down every day. After practicing for more than a month, his back did not straighten up, and his waist was strained first. Later, I showed him a look and found that his breast-holding was a result of habitual breast-holding due to shyness in adolescence. The degree was extremely mild and there was no muscle compensation. It turned out that the coach had never seriously studied body posture assessment and directly put the routine of muscle building and back training on him, but there was no problem in practice. For a problem like his, if you always remind yourself to hold your head high and chest out, and take 10 minutes a day to stretch your chest and shoulders, you can adjust it on your own in two months at most. Spending thousands on a personal trainer is a waste of money.

In fact, it is easy to judge whether you should seek one. If you have experienced frequent pain or limited joint movement due to posture problems, or have tried many adjustment methods without improvement or even getting worse with practice, finding a reliable personal trainer can indeed save you a lot of detours. After all, if you practice blindly and exert your strength incorrectly, it is easy to turn a small problem into a big one. But if you just feel that you are a little straight when taking pictures, it is not uncomfortable at ordinary times. It is really not worth spending the money. If you pay more attention to your sitting and standing posture and stop scrolling on the sofa, you can adjust most of the minor problems by yourself. By the way, if you really want to find a personal trainer, don’t be in a hurry to pay for it. Let him give you a complete assessment first. He can clearly tell you the root cause of your problem and how you plan to adjust it. Instead of just saying, “Buy a 30-class package and you will have straight shoulders.” That kind of thing is likely to be a trap, but don’t jump into it.