How Am I Connected to the Culture?

Being an athlete throughout high school and college, weight training has been a significant part of my atheltic career. In high school, I went to the local gym and I wasn't too sure about what I was doing, but I was lifting weights and I saw improvements in strength and muscle tone. I started trying to educate myself and research about the proper way to weight lift and safely become bigger and stronger. In college we always had a set plan so I learned some things from every regimen I've been a part of. After four or five years of learning as I go, I can adequately get a beneficial workout in by myself. There are people like me that are knowledgable enough to conduct their own workouts that still choose to be personal trained. Is it worth the money? Does a personal trainer reap many more benefits than an indivdual can on their own? I have always wondered how many people see improvements after working hard and paying a pretty substantial amount of money. Another reason this topic is relevant to me is because I work with younger baseball players when I have free time and enjoy it very much. Things could work out where I might have an opportunity to train for a living one day. I think this would be very helpful information to know.