What is partner training? If you’re thinking that it means you and your co-worker, you and your neighbor or just you and a friend working out together every day, you’d be close. Partner training is a system of checks and balances where you both provide and receive validation of your exercise program and someone to keep you on your toes and performing it. There are a lot of good reasons to partner train and we’re going to talk about the 10 best reasons.
10. Partner training doesn’t usually involve financial investment. You can power walk together every day, you can hit the company gym or you can pull out your bikes and ride. You’re not paying someone to work out with you, but because someone else is, you are far less likely to miss your workout.
9. Partner training is fun. Let’s be honest, one of the biggest drawbacks to working out is the boredom factor. A partner gives you some one to talk to and to keep you company.
8. Partner training encourages you to go further and to do more. You’re motivated when you have a partner with you and you are less likely to skip a workout because you don’t want to let them down.
7. Partner training provides you with motivation to go further and do more. You may not be up for walking 5 miles at first, but when you and your partner push on for that extra half-mile, you’ll be more likely to do it.
6. Partner training makes exercise more like a social event than a workout and that’s always a positive thing.
5. People who participate in partner training are 25% more likely to stick to their workout than those who workout solo.
4. People who participate in partner training are 40% more likely to achieve their goals than those who work solo.
3. Partner training, like personal training, offers you opportunities to try fitness methods you may not have considered before. Walking partners become biking partners and gym partners as well.
2. When you are involved in partner training, you stress levels are dramatically reduced. You have the opportunity to talk with a friend every day or every other day, when you don’t have to concentrate on anything but getting your workout done. It’s a great way to combine emotional and mental relief with your physical exercise.
1. The best reason to partner train – is that it helps you get the job done. Fitness is a three part entity, mind, body and soul – partner training fills all of these requirements.
We’re going to talk more about partner training this month – including how you and your spouse can fulfill these roles for each other.