If you’re looking for a trainer in a mainstream gym in Taiwan, you’d do well to look for someone with a bodybuilding background. I’ve trained nearly 200 trainers here and I’ve had the pleasure of meeting more than that over the years. I’ve meet trainers both good and bad and though there were some excpetions, in general most of the pretty good ones had a bodybuilding background.
If you think about it for a minute, Taiwan’s culture isn’t really conducive to building muscle and being really fit. Yet, the bodybuilders have gone against that grain and built muscle anyway. I admire them for that because we hear all the time from people that “don’t want to get big” by lifting weights. If people only knew how hard it is to get big even if you want to!
Bodybuilders know how to build muscle and lose fat because they have to know that for competition. And getting on a stage in your underwear can’t be easy. I wouldn’t do it. It scares me to death. But it forces you to really know what you’re doing, that’s for sure.
Bodybuilders also have an amazing work ethic that they have to maintain for years. The truth is no one builds a great physique in months no matter what P90X and the other fitness marketing fads tell people. Bodybuilders know that it takes years and people need to hear the truth of that.
So that’s my recommendation. Whoever you pick, be sure to ask them lots of questions about their approach to find the trainer right for you.