Personal Training
It is a job that I feel has a lot of misinformation around it and having been a 5-year PT at one point in my life I want to offer my opinion on the subject!
Positives
The job sounds really exciting and I think it's due to some of these reasons:
- Create your own schedule
- Dynamic clients (changing workouts/not same thing over and over)
- "high" paying
- Be where you love to be
- Opportunity to move forward into own business
Negatives:
- If anyone cancels or if your schedule is slightly messed up you might have an hour of unpaid work between clients
- Fairly monotonous since most people are not super into working out so you go through the basics a lot
- if you work in a corporate setting you'll see that the pay is not great until you run your own business.
There's definitely huge positives to the position in terms of creating your own schedule and if you end up running it as your own business you can charge quite a bit. The beginning is rough though because there are definitely a lot of negatives when you start, such as a low price and a long duration before building your client base enough to separate into it's own business.
I go into a LOT more detail in the episode and if you are interested in becoming a personal trainer I think you will gain a lot out of listening! I think being a PT is a great job if you create it the way you want to! Thanks for coming into the thread and showing love my friends, I hope you enjoy the podcast!
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That second point on negatives is so,so true!I see it with my clients all the time,but is our job to push them as much as we can!Great post💪👍
Yup! It takes a certain type of person to be patient through the basics, I think so many people think being a PT will be like being a professional coach or something :)
Well,sometimes it seems that we are more like psychologists for our clients:))
I'm a PT in the South Bay/LA area, have faced all these points mentioned. No longer work for a box gym. Once I calculated how much the gym really makes from the sessions I as selling - I jumped ship and went independant. Over 2 years now and still doing it . More $$ yes, but far more challenging as now there's sales and marketing involved (in addition to training and nutritional techniques/know how).
As far as certs go, that's only for liability/insurance reasons for the chain gyms.
Although in general, almost ANY cert will be considered, there are SOME gyms that only focus on the big name certs as NASM, ISSA, NCSF, . .these are , how I put it, the 'Harvard's and Yale's' of certs. . others like ACE , WITS, etc. are like the 'community colleges' lol
No one you're giving an assesment to will ever ever ask 'Who are you certified by?' 1 in a million Q right there.
All 'clients' care about is - Can you get me results?
Everything else is secondary .
Love this topic/field, so therefore love the post! haha , Upvote!
Thanks for the detail you went into my man, definitely once you see how much corporate makes off of you, it makes you want to leave ASAP! And true no client ever cares for your cert, usually they go look at your instagram and judge how you look lol srs
Word. . and if they're over 40 - they prob don't have IG (like my clients) and go by how you presented yourself / the formula.
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Yes you could cheat the multiple choice on ISSA but the heavy part is client analysis where you get a scenario and you have to write everything you would do with them from the first time you meet them, the training, nutrition, week after week, conditions etc. Probably there is better yes, but I think if you are into fitness you learn alot from yourself along the journey too, like when I was studying for PT I knew most of the things and that's because if you are passionate your research and learn by yourself :)
Definitely agree that if you're passionate you'll learn more than others by default no matter what cert you choose in the backgrounds!
Agree man :)
Wow your six pak aps..you good halth for Gmy. nice👌👌👍
I wish there was a PT on how to meal prep lol
personal training profession is a peculiar one.
For a start, there's basically no barrier to entry. Any idiot can put a tracksuit on and call themselves a 'professional' personal trainer. At commercial gyms, where you might expect better, the quality control on this front is often practically non-existent.
And yet, in the same breath, being a personal trainer is extremely difficult. An effective personal trainer, that is. You need multi-disciplinary knowledge to get under the skin of your client, a willingness to put in long hours, and the ability to read how to get the most out of people.
The best personal trainers are genuinely invested in their clients' progress. They care. Ask yourself: whatever the profession, how many people do you know who really care about the people they work with? It’s a rare and unusual quality in any walk of life; those who demonstrate it go far in life because they stand out from the crowd.
Personal training is a luxury spend and the best PTs – almost an oxymoron but not quite – do not come cheap
#NICEPOST#
YUP, you nailed it. To understand that body truly, takes a knowledge that many doctors will never achieve in terms of understanding the articulation of the muscles and bones of the anatomy. On that opposite coin, ISSA is pretty easy to get through in one day and have a cert!
Thanks for your input!
Thank you
A big downside in my opinion is that it doesn't scale very well, if you build your business around yourself as a brand you will only have X amount of hour per day you can work, which depending on your goals of course may be quite a limiting factor, is this anything you've reflected on?
Otherwise, high-value most that I think many people could benefit from that are going around these though-patterns ✌🏼