The Bert Show.

For those of you that have the New Year's resolution this year, this is going to be the year.

You're going to hit the gym.

You're going to start eating right.

We realize that a lot of you guys are starting from ground zero. You have no idea what you're doing. And it's intimidating too. I think if you haven't been working out, if you haven't been in the gym, like, you don't know exactly how to even turn on the button on the machine to get the treadmill or the elliptical started going. So there's an intimidation factor there. You know, I think like you're nervous. Everybody else around looks like they know what they're doing. They've been going every day. It's like it's kind of scary to get started. For those that have never been to a gym before, have no idea about

trainers or anything, but now they've got the money, because in this economy, everybody

has a disposable income. Now they've got the money to go to a gym. How do you know a good

gym from a bad gym? How do you select what gym to go to besides the one that's closest to your

house? That's a great question. I think if you go to a place where they're very helpful and they take their time to explain

what you're doing and what you're not doing, then that's considered a good place in a lot of ways.

If they're very conscious-oriented when it comes to nutrition, it's so many variables.

What kind of questions can you ask? Because I know sometimes they'll go to some gyms, and sometimes the trainers are the salespeople also, and they're more focused on just getting you in there. Then once you get to the gym, they forget about you. So what kind of questions can you ask to where you know that the gym that you're going to is actually going to help you once you sign up.

Another good question. I would ask, what are your programs, what kind of programs do you offer,

like personal training, what kind of guidance can I get nutrition, how often do I work out,

what if I have injuries? And they can answer injury-based questions, if they can answer questions if you're, if you're, if you've never done anything before and they're very

conscious about people like that. You can also judge it based on the actual session. If someone

is training you and they're training you like they're training everyone else, it's probably

not a good situation. Okay. So it's got to be individual attention. It has be individual attention starting out because you're new they would have to have like different kinds of classes too because i've signed up before and like you know you go to one class you're all fired up you're like i'm gonna love this aerobics class and then you get in there and you hate it and you'd rather do maybe a different kind of class or do like a hip hop class or whatever. You know what I mean?

So you've got different choices if you're signing up for something.

I wouldn't sign up for just one small specific thing.

I'd give yourself some options to see what you actually like and enjoy.

Well, most gyms let you test drive a trainer once or their gym once or twice?

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