Friday, February 11, 2011

Peak Performance, Maximum Results on your terms.

I got to thinking a lot this week about how it seems to me there are very few reasonably priced personal trainers around.  When you go to fitness clubs they want to charge 40-60 dollars a session, and some of the corporate training companies, around Minneapolis anyway, charge 150 a month to plan your workouts and send them to you through the internet.  I could easily do that for people at a lower price the problem is just finding the market for it.  I feel like the people I would likely attract to my business would be athletes more on the beginner side, or average Joes looking to loose weight, get in shape, or run a 5k.  That being said, those types of individuals may not necessarily be interested in a electronic relationship.  Instead they may need more person to person interaction.  Idk, I'm just trying to decide what sort of market I would want to focus my business to and how I would go about providing them with a great, affordable service. "Peak Performance, Maximum Results on your terms."
Comment if you have any ideas about who to target or how to go about the training plans.

So far this weeks training has been going awesome.  Over the past few months I have been gradually lifting my volume, and today was the first day I did a long level 1 run since maybe the fall.  I could tell I have lost a lot of the aerobic base and efficiency I had at the end of last years race season.  Last summer I would have averaged 130 Bpm on a level one run.  Today I was hovering around 150 Bpm and would bounce into level 2 sometimes.  By next week that should be turned around pretty quick.

Tomorrows workout is going to be a really, really, really long trainer ride to try to improve my aerobic capacity more and regain some of my efficiency.  We shall see how long I can last.

I post my week totals on Sunday, thanks for reading. :)

1 comment:

  1. I'd hire you as my personal trainer! The thing is, I need the one on one, so you'd have to come to St Louis. I can't pay you, but you could sleep on my futon, and I'd have my girlfriend cook for you... I like the blog. Keep it up. I might have to revisit mine and get going on it again.

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