Gregg D’Andrea
Best of Boston 2007 Personal Trainer
After teaching spinning at workout meccas like Equinox and Crunch, D’Andrea opened his own 5,000-square-foot fitness studio last year to cater to his considerable following. (He claims a 70 percent retention rate among his clients.) Free advice: “For weight training, dumbbells give far better results than machines. And forget weight belts. Last I heard, cavemen didn’t wear weight belts, and they were in better shape than some of the people working out now.”read article
Revisiting that resolution
Admit it:
You could use some help trimming down or tightening up. But the decision to work with a personal trainer can paralyze anyone. Should you team up with a man or a woman? Someone younger or older? A drill-instructor type or a nurturer? I embarked on a two-week tour to test-drive five different trainers and walked away with two things: sore glutes and a feeling that the archetypes I encountered probably exist at a gym near you. So who's right for you?