Has anybody hired a PT while in Japan? In other Asian countries there have been a huge growth in the fitness industry over the last 2 decades, and thus a lot of unqualified people have opened gyms, so I had to be careful when looking for trainers.
I see a PT in a personal gym in Osaka. It’s been good, most PTs here seem qualified?
I checked prices of all the 10 PT of my gym yesterday. Cheapest was Y3000 45 mins, most expensive one for Y11 000 for 30 mins (wtf, thats the monthly cost of that gym membership lol)
The PTs at mine are still preaching the “DON’T LET YOUR KNEES GO PAST YOUR TOES” horseshit, so make of that what you will.
A session or two just to show you the ropes of the exercises (Minus the squat, due to the aforementioned crap they still believe, though that’s hardly limited to Japan) is probably fine but I’d try to graduate asap to save the money.
It’s quite easy these days to learn what to do and how to do it but if you have any specific questions, I’m glad to help.
I worked with one of the best trainers in the DC area for years before coming to Japan, and while I’ve only seen a few PT’s since coming here 4 years ago, I’m skeptical of the ones I saw. From what I understand (and please correct me if I’m wrong, everyone) gyms only started to become a thing within the past decade, possibly less than that. As a result I would expect that the PT community is still developing.
This place is pretty good – personal trainer focused gym https://gravity-gym.co.jp/ They have idk a dozen or so gyms. The personal trainers are good but not that cheap
I outsource my PT online (cheaper and I can get more from that such as nutrition, coaching, etc)
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I see a PT in a personal gym in Osaka. It’s been good, most PTs here seem qualified?
I checked prices of all the 10 PT of my gym yesterday. Cheapest was Y3000 45 mins, most expensive one for Y11 000 for 30 mins (wtf, thats the monthly cost of that gym membership lol)
The PTs at mine are still preaching the “DON’T LET YOUR KNEES GO PAST YOUR TOES” horseshit, so make of that what you will.
A session or two just to show you the ropes of the exercises (Minus the squat, due to the aforementioned crap they still believe, though that’s hardly limited to Japan) is probably fine but I’d try to graduate asap to save the money.
It’s quite easy these days to learn what to do and how to do it but if you have any specific questions, I’m glad to help.
I worked with one of the best trainers in the DC area for years before coming to Japan, and while I’ve only seen a few PT’s since coming here 4 years ago, I’m skeptical of the ones I saw. From what I understand (and please correct me if I’m wrong, everyone) gyms only started to become a thing within the past decade, possibly less than that. As a result I would expect that the PT community is still developing.
This place is pretty good – personal trainer focused gym
https://gravity-gym.co.jp/
They have idk a dozen or so gyms. The personal trainers are good but not that cheap
I outsource my PT online (cheaper and I can get more from that such as nutrition, coaching, etc)