7 Ways Personal Training Can Support Your Wellness Goals for 2025

New Year’s resolutions include a handful of common goals, such as living healthier, losing weight, quitting bad habits, and enhancing happiness. While these goals are admirable for most Americans, they aren’t sustainable. Remarkably, about 80% of the general population abandons their resolutions by mid-February. So what’s the deal?

Lifestyle goals are challenging, says Cathy Osipow, certified personal trainer, senior fitness specialist, stretch specialist, and certified functional nutritionist at High Quality Home Therapy. In this blog, we explain how personal training can support your wellness goals in 2025.

Personal trainers versus athletic trainers

You are probably more familiar with athletic trainers, a type of healthcare professional. Perhaps your favorite quarterback sustained an injury and just came off the injured reserve list. They work with an athletic trainer who focuses on rehabilitation and injury prevention.  

Personal trainers, sometimes called professional trainers, are experts in a broader scope of wellness, including fitness, exercise, nutrition, and overall health. The secret of professional trainers is that they are also skilled communicators with well-honed interpersonal and motivational skills.
Professional trainers address varied fitness and wellness goals

Because of their diverse scope of practice, a professional trainer can help you reach diverse wellness goals, including:  

1. Lose weight

It’s no secret that losing weight is always one of the top New Year’s resolutions. A professional trainer with expertise in nutrition and exercise can develop a personalized plan with all the ingredients to help you lose weight and keep it off.

2.  Train for a race or athletic event

If running a marathon is on your bucket list for 2025, a professional trainer can take you through the process, starting with your current fitness level. Setting benchmarks along the way enables you to perform safely without injuring yourself while simultaneously keeping you motivated.  

3. Enhance your athletic prowess

Sometimes, fitness goals aren’t specific to particular sports or events, but clients want to focus on strengthening their muscles and bones. A professional trainer creates a fitness regimen based on weight-bearing exercise and strength training with information on a balanced diet and essential nutrients like calcium and Vitamin D.

4. Make exercise a priority

Often, the difference between setting and achieving a goal is about creating new habits to fit into your current lifestyle. We all know that living a sedentary lifestyle is killing Americans. But sticking to a commitment to getting up and active is difficult. A professional trainer can help you make exercise a priority.

5. Offer a realistic plan and approach to wellness

Perhaps the best asset a professional trainer provides to any client is that they can take your particular wellness goal and transform it into an effectively actionable plan to succeed. You also get your coach, cheerleader, and #1 supporter, who is with you every step of the way. 

6. Wellness plans dialed in just for you

The major pitfall for most fitness and nutrition plans is that they are cookie-cutter programs that lump everyone together. Remember when you and your bestie tried that trendy new diet promoted by your favorite celebrity? If your friend lost weight and the results weren’t so great for you, you aren’t alone.

Every person has a unique metabolism and lifestyle, which gets factored into any wellness program. A professional trainer works with clients to create a personalized plan that is fine-tuned just for them.

7. Turn your resolutions into reality

Working with a professional trainer can provide the strategy, motivation, and expertise to turn your wellness goals from New Year’s resolutions into reality. And when your friends are kicking their resolution to the curb by springtime, you’ll be getting started with your new and improved self.

Here at High Quality Home Therapy, our professional trainers work as part of a multidisciplinary team along with physical and occupational therapists and massage therapists to offer a comprehensive team approach to your wellness. We work in one of our gym locations in Connecticut and Westchester, New York, or at your home or gym.

If you’re ready to turn your New Year’s resolutions into reality, call High Quality Home Therapy in Stamford, Connecticut, today or use our online feature to schedule an appointment.