When fatigue is not just sweat and pain but 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, poetry and deep love for everything related to the metamorphosis and growth of the person were involved? And that someone appreciates so much effort, pain and sweat to create an ode?

Well that's it, personal trainer is no longer synonymous with hard and rigorous training, but also with love for one's job and the search for harmony during every single gesture.

When you ask a personal trainer: "Why did you decide to do this job?", Often the answers are vague and different from each other.

Probably because the path that pushes each of them to undertake this career depends a lot on both personality and experiences; but once they are confident they will tell you clearly what is the reality that has 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 which offers experiences that alone are worth all the years spent studying and doing apprenticeship. Normally a good personal trainer can decide whether to join gyms or work at home at customers' homes. In the second case, life becomes complicated, in fact, it is necessary to plan numerous trips to be carried out by car and a search for customers by word of mouth and via the web, so it could be defined relatively more difficult as a professional choice, but it is probably also the choice that can give you something more than your colleagues who work in the gym.
Today we want to ask Samuele Tedeschi, a personal trainer at home in the square of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Modena and an online personal trainer.

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

Why I chose this job is easy to say, a personal trainer is not just a coach, a teacher and a motivator, but first of all a dreamer, together with his clients he lives and desires the same dreams and savors training by training there. approaching 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 hard and inflexible coach in the "Full metal jacket" style, where it is necessary to execute letter by letter the commands given, but it is not the figure to which I have been inspired during my career; let's say that the "coach" modern must enter the minds of its customers and steal their dreams and desires and finally translate them into reality. Much more difficult than the job of the personal trainer seems, believe me! The motivation to instill in the client during the training necessarily passes from these dreams and I myself tend to identify myself and imagine what the ultimate goal will be like. Often people, once freed from those extra kilograms, not only change their appearance, but also their character. This is because together we work on both physical and psychological aspects; on the other hand, every training session is a challenge with oneself and every time you win a game, your character also comes out much stronger. Massimo Tortola in "The dictatorship of capital letters" writes that: «the pillow is the dreamer's gym >>, well in my case from the pillow I transferred the gym of dreams directly to the gym! So for those who believe that it is only physical training, they are very wrong, there are an "infinity of implications around sports that have encouraged my already great passion for sport and translated into work. I am first of all attracted to everything that the human body can do, I follow my passions with strong motivation and this motivation I then pass on to my clients who appreciate and gratify me every day, giving me ever stronger emotions and satisfactions. This allows me to love my job and develop a lot of projects that all revolve around sport, motivation and personal growth. My approach to home personal training stems from a "practical need to do my job better, away from the countless distractions present in commercial gyms, in order to really get in touch and in tune with my customers. Training away from everyone and in a place well known as one's home gives free psycho-physical vent to the people followed, so we can speak of tailor-made training, sewn on and poetically performed series after series along a succession of rhymes and sweat.

I really hope that many young people will be able to approach this profession, because it is not only educational, it is also a continuous confrontation with oneself and towards everything that is created with love and passion, from the training sheet to the phrases whispered in the ears of customers. who, from one moment to the next, are ready to give in to fatigue.