Are 30 minute training sessions enough and are they for me?
The thirty minute training sessions are a valuable tool to have at your disposal, especially as life is fast paced and full or a million things demanding your attention and when time is spread so thinly you wan to know that your workout time is spent wisely when you pay for the services of a professional Personal Trainer.
More and more science has been emerging over the last two decades supporting the effectiveness of short duration, high intensity workouts and with real world examples such as myself, the Tabata protocol, the past three decades or Dr. Darden's success (A HIT trainer since the seventies and PHD) combined with the roaring global success of fitness programmes such as Crossfit (A high intensity mixed modality training method where workouts take from as little as two minutes) it is no surprise that fast fitness is taking over!
Many people train in their lunch times or before work and one hour sessions are simply too much time out of their day. Half an hour sessions can work wonders with the right combination of intensity, effort and motivation.
Is it for you?
Is time a limiting factor in your current fitness and health plan or lack of one?
Can you warm up for five minutes on your own before a Personal Training session and then spend a dedicated thirty minutes to following instruction and working hard?
Then yes, this is for you.
If, however, you'd prefer full guidance from warm up to cool down and stretching then perhaps the one hour sessions are better suited to your needs.