Personal trainer Norwich: how to choose one

The most reviewed trainers in the city

• EMS Fitness Norwich, NR3, 5.0 from 109 reviews, the largest review base of any trainer here.
• Pilates Back To Health, 5.0 from 98, listed as a women's personal trainer alongside pilates and sports massage.
• fit20 Norwich, NR6, 5.0 from 59.
• Craig Jackson Fitness, 5.0 from 54.
• Inspire Studio Norwich, NR7, 5.0 from 46.
• Daniel Rabaioli PT, NR3, 5.0 from 39, and Dom Hills Health Coach and Strength Dept, both NR1, at 5.0 from 34.

Across all 109, the city's trainers hold 1,250 Google reviews between them. That average of a dozen or so reviews each is the useful signal: a trainer with fifty is unusual and a trainer with none is not necessarily bad, just newer or working by referral.

Read the address before you read the biography

Personal trainers in this city very often list the postcode of the gym they coach in. You will see NR1 1WX on Wherry Road, NR2 1EA on Little London Street, NR6 5DH at Sweet Briar, NR3 3AF at St Marys Works and NR5 8PF on Guardian Road. It tells you where the sessions happen, which matters more than the branding.

Ask three things on the first call. Where do sessions take place and do I need my own membership there. What does a block cost and what does a single session cost. And what happens to unused sessions. The answer to the third question tells you most of what you need to know about the business.

What personal training costs in Norwich

Nobody in this city publishes a standard hourly rate, and we are not going to invent one. What we can tell you is the floor: a £7.99 day pass at Phoenix, £15 to drop in to a coached class at CREW Fitness and £4.90 for a council gym session. Any personal training quote should be judged against the coaching you could buy for those numbers.

If the goal is structure rather than one to one attention, a class based gym often does the job for a fraction of the cost. See fitness classes, or CrossFit and HYROX, where the coaching is the product.