Top 10 Benefits of Personal Training

From helping you reach your fitness goals to figuring out how to exercise safely with a chronic condition, learn the top 10 benefits of personal training and why it could be one of the best investments you’ll make in your overall health and well-being.

1. Motivation

Most of us work harder in the presence of others. Having a trainer by your side can provide the encouragement, energy and motivation you need to jumpstart your routine. A trainer can also help you set goals, create a plan to accomplish them and celebrate the day you reach them.

2. Consistency

Do you find it difficult to stick with a program or habit? A trainer can hold you accountable and help you overcome all the excuses you might use to avoid your commitment to exercise. It’s a lot harder to skip the gym when you know someone is waiting for you.

3. Clarity

Fitness can be confusing. There is a lot of information to sort through. Eat this, not that. Cardio before or after strength training? Your trainer can help you find credible information and provide direction on your fitness journey. A trainer can help remove the guesswork so you can put all your energy toward accomplishing your goals.

4. Confidence

The gym can be intimidating. Working with a trainer allows you to become confident with how to perform exercises, use machines and navigate the facility. After a few sessions, you will feel ready to tackle the weight room on your own. Even better, an ego boost during exercise can promote stronger self-confidence and self-efficacy, which can help you stick with your exercise program over the long term.

5. Avoid Injury

If you are new to exercise or find that some movements are painful, it is worth hiring a trainer to be certain that you are moving in a safe and effective way. Taking the time to learn proper exercise technique can improve your results and prevent annoying injuries.

6. Individual Attention

When it comes to fitness, everyone is different. Your unique body mechanics, experience, goals, fitness level, likes and dislikes can guide your trainer in creating a plan that is specific to your needs. With a program that fits, you are more likely to maintain the habit and see results.

7. Sport-specific Training

Do you want to run your first 5K or prepare for a backpacking trip? Looking to shave some strokes off your golf game? Your trainer can design a fitness program specific to your sport, which will improve your performance and reduce your chance of injury during the event(s).

8. Training With Medical Conditions

Exercise is beneficial for preventing or managing many common chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and hypertension. However, exercising with a medical condition requires additional precautions. A knowledgeable trainer with experience training clients with chronic conditions can design a program that ensures your safety and provides a positive exercise experience.

9. Aging Gracefully

Our bodies change as we age. Perhaps the exercises you used to do no longer work with your body, or maybe you’ve stopped seeing results. A trainer can help you adjust or adapt your program as you age, which will allow you to maintain functionality and strength.

10. FUN

Believe it or not, exercise can be enjoyable. A savvy personal trainer can make exercise both effective and fun. Group or buddy training can be a great way to increase enjoyment, make exercise social and attain the services of a trainer for a cheaper rate. And simply working with a trainer who you like and respect can be enough to provide you with more gratification from your workouts.

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Logging in our application

Any application to some extent is using the logging system. And we are not an exception. We log a lot of information in our Android and iOS applications as well as in our backend server application. But what logs give us, after all, they are not contributing to the application functionality? They might be a part of user requirements, but why would anyone want to invest money and time for the feature that is not used by a user? Let’s explore the purpose of logs in software development and practices developers are applying.

Here are some of the cases where we are using logging in our applications:

  • during development to make it easier and faster spot a bug along the
    • @NonNull and other annotations and code inspection tool Lint
    • unit and integration tests, where we try to cover most of the code execution paths and integrations points. (And I already wrote how we approached the testing in our project)

    we use logs that show as the trace of actions and values that led to a particular bug. But before we started to use logs we had to answer the following questions:

    • where to put log statements on
    • what information to log

    Since a lot of our code is covered by unit tests then there is little reason to log our own code for debugging and test purposes, but where we don’t have control over the values we are processing is:

    • framework lifecycle methods, like onCreate, on ViewCreate, onResume, onPause in Android application. If our code is using the arguments provided by lifecycle method we log these values and assert the expected value if it is possible
    • to click listeners and other event handlers
    • third party library methods and their returned results. For example, for network calls we are using Retrofit and we always log the network requests and responses in debug build variant. Another example calls to the database. Since we are using Room in Android application, we want to see SQL code sent to the database

    So once we log enough information we can spot the bug just by going through logs and skipping the process of starting the app again with attached debugger and stepping through the code. And we don’t have to worry much about the performance as well since Android logging system is taking care of debug log statements and skip them at runtime.

  • in production:
    • to monitor, on the back end server the logs are used to monitor the normal business logic functionality. We log every request. If the request is successful we log it as info, in case request ends up we log error. When the error is reported on the back end service, the gathered logs are of great value. Very often they allow to spot the problem without further investigation.

    • we log fatal errors, that caused the application stop. On the backend server, we catch the exceptions as early as possible and when the exception is caught it is logged and an email is sent to an administrator. We don’t experience many exceptions outside of our app on the back end part, because the only reason that can lead to such exception is a malformed request and not the back end code itself, and since the request is formed by third party library it is very rear that it is malformed. A different story is with uncaught exceptions on the client – Android or iOS app. It is not possible to catch all the exceptions so they leak and cause the app to crash. To log these kinds of exceptions we use Fabric Crashlytics (Firebase). These logs later help us a lot to find a cause of a crash.

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