Is It Safe To Be An At Home PT Right Now?
This is a question that is understandable, but is easier to answer than you might think. Despite that, I have to lead with the fact that the ultimate answer is both yes and no simultaneously, because it depends on whether or not you’re going to be or use an outdoor personal trainer or someone who will be in the house with you, helping you exercise and helping to motivate you.
The pandemic is no longer as serious as it once was, but it remains a prescient issue in society, and I am just as tired of writing about it is you are hearing about it, believe me. However, we are going to be very fixated on safety for probably a few generations, and while that’s annoying, it will also probably spare us from repeating history anytime soon. Then again, we suffered through a similar pandemic in the 1920s and evidently didn’t learn our lessons on how to handle let alone prevent that.
However, for a describe the alternative method for using a personal trainer, let me explain that if you are working outdoors, away from crowds, and your personal trainer is keeping safe distance which they probably should anyhow given general practices with personal space, you are probably pretty safe. This virus does not travel very far, which is why social distancing actually does work fairly well, and it doesn’t transfer from surfaces of physical contact very much. So in a big, open space with airflow? You’re probably fine. However, if you’re anything like me, and prefer to admire nature solely through a computer monitor, then your at home PT may be a problem, because you’re in a closed environment. This is potentially dangerous for both you and the trainer, and quite a few trainers are unwilling to work with their clients indoors at the moment for understandable reasons.
Fortunately, there exists a solution, just as there has various other aspects of life since the need to isolate and quarantine. If you have a decent smart phone or tablet, and preferably something like a biometric smart watch, even a cheap and simple one, then you can use voice and video telepresence to exercise real time while your personal trainer communicates with you over this application. While it may not pack quite as much personal punch as physical presence, that’s just due to our conditioning and upbringing, and future generations will probably be somewhat averse to physical presence when unnecessary rather than missing it.
Technology like this is fantastic news for people who want to continue to strive for a healthier lifestyle, but is equally great news for personal trainers out there who want to still help people, but don’t want to help spread the pandemic will risk getting them, their clients or their own families sick in the process. Again, an outdoor personal trainer does not face quite the same issues, but even then, how many people who have previously lived unhealthy lifestyles really want to spend that much time out in the weather anyhow?
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