Personal training and physical therapy involve designing a training regimen to improve the health of clients. Personal trainers are experts at guiding their clients to a better state of overall fitness. Physical therapists, as the name suggests, are more interested in a holistic approach. They must motivate and help their clients restore physical function and mobility that have been attenuated because of injury, disease, chronic pain or some disabling condition.
Personal training uses techniques and exercises that most people already tend to do, including weight lifting, cardiovascular exercises, calisthenics and high-intensity routines. Physical therapy may use some of these techniques in low doses, but treatments also include massage therapy, electrical stimulation and work with medicine balls. If an injury or disability is severe enough, then a patient may have to relearn some basic movements.
