The Facts About Personal Fitness Training

What is a Fitness Trainer?

A fitness trainer provides personalized instruction, support, and feedback to help you reach your fitness goals as quickly and safely as possible. Typically, fitness trainers begin by assessing your individual needs and abilities through a preliminary fitness test, then prescribe a results-oriented exercise program. Sessions usually last one hour and can be one-on-one or with a small group. In each session, the trainer will teach you proper form, technique, and intensity. Trainers work with your needs, goals and time constraints to maximize the gains you make in stamina, strength, speed, and weight loss.

Investing in a trainer can help you:

• look and feel better
• reach a specific goal like losing weight, finishing a race, or improving your personal-best sports record
• become comfortable exercising independently

What Should You Ask Before Hiring a Trainer?

• As a minimum, is the trainer certified by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)?
• Does the trainer have a post-secondary degree in exercise science, recreation, kinesiology, or another
  

  related field?

• Does the trainer have experience with my specific needs (for example, weight loss, exercising during pregnancy, body-building, or exercising as a senior)?
• How will the trainer monitor improvement?

When is massage therapy and/or fitness training covered under insurance?

• Auto insurance companies must, by law, automatically cover massage under a person’s Personal InjuryProtection (PIP) coverage in the case of a motor vehicle accident if massage is prescribed from a physician in the state of Minnesota. Personal Fitness Systems files insurance claims for motor vehicle accident clients.Some plans require the client to pay and submit his/her receipts; Personal Fitness Systems can provide clients with necessary paperwork.
• Workman’s Compensation may cover massage and fitness training services with a Doctor’s referral within the first 90 days after an work-related accident.  I have had several clients receive both massage and fitness training with a Chiropractor’s or Physician’s referral.   
• In some instances, health insurance companies sometimes cover massage and fitness training with a doctor’s prescription; patients should check with their insurance plans.
• Often, reimbursable pre-tax plans such as medical spending accounts or Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) cover massage therapy expenses for a diagnosable injury or illness with a physician’s prescription. Massage for relaxation or stress reduction is not covered.

What Are the Benefits of Working With Personal Fitness Systems, Inc. and Keith Gosline?

Keith Gosline, ACSM HFS, LMT, CKTP, owner of Personal Fitness Systems, Inc., has extensive knowledge and training in fitness, physiology, and exercise. He has been an American College of Sports Medicine Health and Fitness Specialist since 1999, a licensed massage therapist since 2002, and a certified kinesio taping practitioner since 2010. To discuss your fitness training needs, call Personal Fitness Systems, Inc. at (651) 492-3477.

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