When fatigue is not just sweat and pain, it is an ode to perseverance and growth

Article by Samuele Tedeschi

Would you have ever imagined that in a profession as varied and crazy as that of the personal trainer, there was half of poetry and profound love for all that concerns the metamorphosis and the growth of the person? And that someone appreciates so much effort, pain and sweat to create us an ode?

Well, that's it, personal trainers are no longer just synonymous with hard and rigorous training, but also love for their job and search for harmony during every single gesture.

When you ask a personal trainer: "Why did you decide to do this job?", The answers are often vague and different.

Probably because the path that pushes each of them to pursue this career depends very much on both their personality and their experiences; but once in confidence they will tell you clearly what is the reality that led them to the most incredibly varied and engaging profession that can be practiced in the world of sport. A career full of emotions, out of the ordinary and sometimes difficult but that gives experiences that alone are worth all the years spent studying and doing apprenticeship. Normally, a good personal trainer can decide whether to join a gym or work at home at the clients' homes. In the second case, life becomes more complicated, in fact, it is necessary to budget numerous journeys to be made by car and a search for customers by word of mouth and via the web, so it could be defined as relatively more difficult as a professional choice, but it is probably also the choice that can give you something more than the counterparts who work in the gym.

Today we want to ask this question to Samuele Tedeschi, a personal trainer at home in Reggio Emilia, Parma and Modena and an online personal trainer.

Samuele tries to describe the world in which you work and explains to our readers why you chose this job and the field of home training.

The reason why I chose this job is soon said, a personal trainer is not only a coach, a teacher and a motivator, but he is first and foremost a dreamer, together with his customers he lives and wants the same dreams and savors workout training getting closer to the realization of dreams. All seasoned with sweat and passion, but seen in this dreamy perspective, the hard training I undergo my clients take on a much more poetic air. The perceived fatigue is soon forgotten when compared to the results obtained thanks to those 3-4 hours of training per week. I do not want to demystify the myth of the tough and inflexible coach in "Full metal jacket" style, where it is necessary to execute the data commands letter by letter, but it is not the figure I was inspired by during my career; let us say that the modern coach must enter into the minds of his clients and understand their dreams and desires and finally translate them into reality. Much more difficult than it seems the job of the personal trainer, believe me! The motivation to infuse the client during the training necessarily passes from these dreams and I myself tend to immerse myself and imagine how the ultimate goal will be. Often people, once freed from those kilograms too many, not only change appearance, but also character, because together we work on both physical and psychological aspects; on the other hand, every workout is a challenge with yourself and every time you win a game, the character comes out much stronger. Massimo Tortola in "The dictatorship of capital letters" writes that: "the pillow is the gym of the dreamer", well in my case from the pillow I transferred the dream gym directly to the gym! So for those who believe that it is only physical training they are mistaken, there are an infinite number of implications around sports that have encouraged my already great passion for sports and translated into work. First of all I am attracted to everything that the human body can do, I follow my passions with strong motivation and this motivation then passes to my clients who appreciate and gratify me every day giving me ever stronger emotions and satisfactions. This allows me to love my work and develop a lot of projects that all revolve around sports, motivation and personal growth. My approach to home-based personal training stems from a practical need to do my job as well as possible, away from the innumerable distractions present in commercial gyms, in order to really get in touch with my clients. Training away from everyone and in a place well known as your home leaves a free psycho-physical outlet for the people you follow, so you can talk about tailor-made training, sewn on and poetically executed series after series along a succession of rhymes and sweat.

I really hope that many young people can get close to this profession, because it is not only formative, it is also a continuous confrontation with oneself and towards everything that is created with love and passion, from the training card to the phrases whispered in the ears of the customers that at any moment they are ready to give in to fatigue.