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RE: A Career As A Personal Trainer (Pro's vs Con's) | 5-Year Experience

in #dsound7 years ago

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
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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!