My problem with personal training is that so many people are trying to make it convenient.  It's not.

Changing your body or your mind and transforming who you are cannot magically fit into your schedule.  You have to change your schedule.

The point is that you are changing yourself for the better.  To truly make that change, you may start at a half hour a day, but a transformation will not happen by working out with a trainer for a half hour 3 days a week.

If I were to do that, I'd maybe get a half mile run in, rush the person through only one cycle in weights and we'd have to alternate between abs and push ups depending on the day.  Speaking of alternating, I'd be lucky to get an equal and proper balance of arm and leg strength in.

Everyone is big on defining "the core," but the way to define yout body best is first making it as strong as you can before you are isolating your body.  "Core" workouts are based on stamina and endurance.  How are you supposed to increase that type of strength if you aren't developing brute strength?

I have my own views, the same way everyone who has a training program has their own as well.  My therapists tortured me with endurance exercises, which I fought through but was never successful to the point that I was proud of myself.  It wasn't until I found baseball and began lifting and INCREASING weight at the gym that I saw results I was proud of in those exercises my therapists put me through for at least 7 years.

I wasn't even a year into the gym, doing my own workouts, and I saw exponential change in my ability to withstand drills that literally crippled me--and I do not use that word lightly.

I'm not talking to people as a pompous trainer.  The way I want to train people is by envoking permanent change.  It takes hours a day, but it is so easy to fit in into your schedule because you simply substitute the things that are plaguing your body with training.  You don't lose any time in your day and there is nothing to consolidate!  You can actually make a difference in yourself and see results because you're bypassing the dead-end of convenience by attacking the problem head on.  You attack it by eliminating it from your lifestyle completely.

This takes time, but that's how I got there.  Building gradually makes the change assimilate to your lifestyle all the easier.  You mold your body by transitioning it into a new lifestyle.  Doing it one step at a time not only gets you closer to your transformed life, but eliminates what you disliked about your old life with each of those progressive steps.

This is more than what can be described in one blog post.  There is no way to fit an entire life filled with meaning and uncharted potential in 4000 characters.  The only way to do it properly is to live it.  That's the best promise and gift I can make and give to someone...and that is what I am going to do with my life.  The best things take the longest to come to existence because of the detailed prep required to make it reality, but once it comes you realize you could never live your life without it.  And something with that much passion behind it, there's no way anyone will ever let that positive of a sensation walk away from them.  You fight, push and strengthen yourself to keep it and get more of it, but with as good as it makes you feel, it's not a fight at all, but rather another day taking another step, just one more step, into your discovered happiness.