Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Every gym is the same. They make 1/2 their money from membership sales. 1/2 their money from personal training sales. They have daily sales goals and you are just a number. Some gyms like Ballys even allow personal trainers to sell personal training sessions based on what they feel the client can pay... meaning it could be 20.00 per session or 90.00 per session and at the same time, 1/2 their staff might not even be certified to train people at all and even though you might end up paying 90.00 per session, you get nothing for that money. I've seen cases where at least 1/2 the personal training staff had no certifications and a few of the trainers were fresh out of prison.

If you feel the need to pay someone to count for you while that guy stands there, texts his girlfriend and is looking around trying to figure out who the next sucker is that he can corner and sell more personal training sessions to so he can hit his goals and get a bonus,.. then pay 425.00 per month. It's highly unlikely that you aren't going to feel like you got fucked over.

Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho

Depending on experience, it can be greatly benefitial in terms of exercising technique.

Although I have some experience in lifting weights, anytime I trained with a friend of mine who is a trainer he found lots of minor mistakes in technique I'm doing that cause muscular imbalance.

Of course, as mentioned above, it has to be a motivated professional. If your main concern is to overcome stagnation simply the right training partner could do the job.

I'd probably ask for a test session and go from there.