How Much Does Cross Training Cost?
By Yann, published on 04/01/2019 We Love Prof - IN > Health and Fitness > Personal Training > The Cost of Cross Training“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” – Vince Lombardi
Cross training, which is often wrongly referred to as CrossFit, is sold as a miraculous type of training for losing weight and gaining muscle. Like other goods and services, cross training comes at a price.
Around 20 million people in the UK are said to be physically inactive.
37% of the population never do sport, 17% are members of gyms, and 13% exercise regularly.
So how much would it cost to get into cross training?
While workouts technically cost nothing, if you want to improve your endurance, aerobic performance, athletic ability, or do some strength training, you might want to consider paying for a good pair of trainers for when you do any high-intensity cardiovascular work, weights and bands for resistance training, and suitable clothing for working out in before you start paying for sessions or cross training resources.
In this article, we’re looking at how much cross-raining sessions cost and some examples of where you can get them, whether you should do them at home or a gym, what you can do in the gym, and the cost of private cross-training sessions.
Should You Do Cross Training at Home or at the Gym?
With over a third of the UK never exercising, there needs to be a solution. Everyone has their reasons, be them time constraints, family commitments, or work, you only really need to do the equivalent of 30 minutes of working per day.
You don’t necessarily have to do cross training at a gym if you have the right equipment. (Source: anovva)
As we can see, the figures for how much physical activity people do in the UK aren’t good. Ideally, you need something you can do in a short amount of time with a lot of health benefits.
Cross-training, a mix of different sporting disciplines, uses a broad variety of exercises to tone muscles, keep you in shape, and help you lose weight.
But how exactly do you motivate yourself to do cross training and how can you get cross-training classes?
Do you need to get a personal coach to come to your house or can you do cross training at the gym?
In fact, you can do both, but they’re not the same.
Cross Training at Home
Enlisting the help of a personal trainer at home is a great way to ensure that you get tailored classes from a coach who will adapt the sessions to your own needs. On Superprof, there are plenty of private tutors and coaches from all over the country.
If you’re looking for a coach is specialized in CrossFit or cross-training, you just need to search for these terms plus where you live.
Of course, you’re more likely to find coaches and cross-training tutors in the bigger cities than in the country. Cross training tutors are more abundant in the capital than elsewhere, for example.
Generally speaking, fitness coaches in London charge around £30 per hour.
As you can see, getting your own personal trainer isn’t necessarily affordable for those on a budget.
It could cost you over £100 a month just to have a single weekly session with a personal trainer.
Find out more about cross-training.
Cross Training on Your Own
Another solution which is more affordable is to follow cross training sessions online. There are videos on sites like you YouTube, Decathlon, and other specialised sites selling sports equipment and cross-training courses.
You can lose weight, tone muscles, get that flat stomach, improve your cardio performance, and get in shape by just following an online professional. Of course, when you do this, you run the risk of picking up bad habits that could hinder your progress or cause injury.
Cross Training at the Gym
Just like you wouldn’t run before you could walk, make sure you never overexert yourself when cross training. (Source: AberroCreative)
Doing fitness or cross training classes at a gym or fitness club tends to be more affordable as you’re not the only person in the class.
Additionally, there’ll be a professional on hand to help you. However, you will need to stick to the schedule of the classes and you won’t be able to work them around your own schedule like you can with a personal trainer.
Cross Training Classes: What Can You Do in the Gym?
There are plenty of benefits to working out in the gym. As we have already mentioned in a previous article on the benefits of cross-training, you can improve your physical condition, tone your muscles, lose weight, and get an athlete’s body.
A Typical Session
A cross-training session usually includes three stages:
- Dynamic warmups: warming up the joints that going to be used in today’s workout.
- The daily workout (or workout of the day).
- Lowering your heart rate and stretching out your muscles.
A session last 30 minutes, an hour, or even an hour and a half. It all depends on the participants’ physical condition and how much time they have as a 30-minute session could be more intense than a 90-minute session.
Warming up and stretching is also an important part of any cross-training session. (Source: energepic)
Key Cross Training Exercises
In addition, for example, there is an increasing intensity. You could start with 3, 6, 9, 15, then 21 pushups, then 15, 9, 6, 3 of the same.
There are some of the exercises that you’ll do in a typical cross-training session:
- Squat jumps: to work your thighs, buttocks, abs.
- Box jumps: jumping with your feet together on to a wooden box or a step.
- Boxing: with a punching bag, do a left kick and then a right kick, then a left punch and a right punch.
- Pullup bar.
- Exercises with kettlebells.
- Dips between two chairs.
- Squats.
- Planks.
- With your back straight, stand with your thighs parallel to the ground and hold for 2 minutes.
There are plenty of great videos available online to show you how to do each of these exercises. That said, the background music for a lot of workout videos is more often than not to everyone’s taste.
Rates for Cross Training Classes
With the growth of the fitness market and online courses, there are more and more online cross-training courses available. There’s never been a better time to start cross-training.
There has to be a better way to pay for cross-training sessions. (Source: RyanMcGuire)
You just need to find the nearest fitness club to you and you’ll no doubt find plenty of CrossFit or cross-training classes. Generally speaking, online cross-training sessions are the cheapest option as the instructor doesn’t need to travel to the customer’s house.
Sessions in gyms tend to be more expensive than the online sessions as they require actual equipment, maintenance, and the overheads for keeping the lights on at the gym, etc. These are either available as one-on-one sessions or group sessions. The group sessions will be cheaper as the cost of the session is shared between all the attendees or gym members.
Finally, the most expensive option is private tutoring or coaching. However, this is arguably the most cost-effective option as you’ll benefit from tailored instruction that’s geared to you. The tutor will plan their sessions in accordance with your schedule, availability, age, weight, fitness level, and the kinds of activities you like. Of course, this doesn’t mean they’ll go easy on you. You still need to break a sweat.
If you find private cross-training sessions too expensive, consider asking your personal trainer if they’d be happy to coach a small group of you and your friends. By offering each of you a discounted hourly rate, you can get sessions for cheaper while the instructor earns more per hour. It’s a win-win!
With private tutors, their rates will vary according to a number of factors. The biggest factors tend to be their qualifications and experience. The better a tutor is and the longer they’ve provided coaching, the more they’ll probably charge.
You’ll also benefit from lower rates if there’s a lot of competition between instructors. If you’re the only fitness coach in a given area, you can pretty much charge whatever you want. However, if there are tonnes of other fitness coaches and instructors where you live, you don’t want to be charging way more than everyone else or you’ll struggle to find customers willing to pay your rates unless you offer a fantastic service worthy of such rates.
Similarly, they’ll also charge in accordance with local rates. The higher the cost of living in a given area, the more they’ll charge. While the average cost of cross training sessions is £30 per hour in London, the average in Edinburgh is just £19 per hour. This is because the cost of living in London is high and tutors and coaches need to cover travel costs, their rent, and just surviving in the capital.
Obviously, the best option is whichever works for you.
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