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part coach, part therapist, part witness to your worst burpees and best comebacks
means A trainer is a person who instructs and supervises someone — usually in fitness, sport, or skills — guiding them through exercises and pushing them toward a goal; the word also names the shoe you do it in.
from From the verb 'train,' which comes through Old French 'trainer' (to drag, draw, or pull) and ultimately from Latin 'trahere,' to draw or drag — the same root that gave us 'tract,' 'tractor,' and 'attract.' The idea of dragging stretched into 'drawing out' a skill, then 'leading along a path' of instruction. The athletic-shoe sense is much younger, a 20th-century shortening of 'training shoe' — the footwear you wore while being dragged through your drills.
- ancient roots
- Greek gymnasium trainers prescribed diet, exercise, and sleep millennia ago
- hidden math
- good ones quietly calculate your limits faster than you admit them
- name origin
- from training, to drag or pull into line
- horse crossover
- the title spans humans, dogs, horses, and Pokemon alike
- mirror role
- they watch your form so you can ignore your reflection
cesar millan — dog trainer with 25 years experience, star of national geographic's 'the dog whisperer'
jillian michaels — fitness trainer featured on nbc's 'the biggest loser' for 17 seasons
john kavanagh — mma trainer who coached conor mcgregor to ufc championship in dublin