Solomonidou notes that \u201calthough the attitudes of Greeks to fitness were different from the rest of Europe or the USA in the past, nowadays, with extensive travel, television and the Internet, there are few differences anymore\u201d.<\/p>\n
How did you decide on your career and what is your own fitness regimen?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ve always loved sports, health and fitness. In spite of the fact that everybody expected me to study law, my love of sports proved to be the deciding factor for me. I always look after my diet and try to exercise as much as possible \u2013 often with my clients so that I can demonstrate that the exercises are not as difficult as they think.<\/p>\n What is life like\u00a0 for a personal trainer in Athens? Are many of your clients expats?<\/strong><\/p>\n Recently many fitness instructors have adopted the title of \u201cpersonal trainer.\u201d This makes the life of professional personal trainers like myself difficult because most<\/p>\n people are not aware of the qualities a personal trainer needs to have. When I started years ago, most of my clients were either foreigners or expats who knew what to expect of a personal trainer. Expats and foreigners are demanding and know what to look for in their personal trainers. Today I also have many Greek customers.<\/p>\n How have attitudes toward fitness and exercise changed in Greece? Have you noticed any new trends?<\/strong><\/p>\n When I started, personal training was a novel, unknown concept.\u00a0Few people knew and understood the need. Today personal training is either in a trainee\u2019s home or in a gym and has become a way of life in Greece as well. However, there are aspects of personal training that have not yet been established in Greece. An example is personalized training in a group. It allows all types of fitness methods individually tailored for each trainee in a group and allows advanced as well as novice trainees to exercise at the same time in the same place.<\/p>\n For someone who isn\u2019t a member of a gym, where is the best place for fitness instruction?<\/strong><\/p>\n It is on his or her own home. It is always available, does not cost anything and there are many simple ways to exercise there.<\/p>\n What services are offered by AthensTrainers\u00ae and who can sign up?<\/strong><\/p>\n It is the only company to offer a full range of wellness services. These include all types of personal training in different types of sports and fitness with up-to-date training methods anywhere the client desires. Our associates include personal trainers, physiotherapists, reflexologists, masseurs, dietitians, doctors, psychologists and other professionals. We offer seminars such as \u201cAthensTrainers\u00ae Ultimate Pilates System\u00ae\u201d, \u00a0for the training of gymnasts and instructors. Anybody can sign up, from small children to pensioners. We design the program for each person individually and offer our services to Greeks and foreigners. Our company has associates who are fluent in English.<\/p>\n Any tips to start getting in shape for the summer?<\/strong><\/p>\n The best way to get in shape for summer as well as any other time is to work out regularly throughout the year. With the approach of summer, though, it is a good idea to look after one\u2019s diet.<\/p>\n Source: Athens Plus January\u00a029 , 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Varvara Solomonidou local fitness world fixture talks about AthensTrainers\u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,102,362],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-said-about-us","tag-athenstrainers","tag-personal-training","tag-varvara-solomonidou"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"head-start\"](\"https:\/\/www.athenstrainers.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/head-start.jpg\")
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