Personal Training

The one thing, above all, is experience. In the gym, as in life, Experience matters. Intelligence and book smarts are essential, but it is chiefly experience that solves problems quickly.

So there’s a story about a guy with a squeaky floor.  He tries everything but it won’t stop squeaking.  So he hires a contractor to take a look.  The contractor arrives, walks around, listens to the squeaks, then pulls his hammer and whacks one nail.  Subsequently the squeaking stops.   He bills the guy $500 and the guy complains. Why $500?  You hammered one nail?  The contractor smiles.  That was $1 for the hammering, $499 for knowing which nail. A good Trainer, inn essence, finds the nail.

You love fitness.; you want to share that love; You passed your fitness certification. Now for the hard part: how do you get people to pay you for your expertise? This is how to land your first training client? First off what are you selling? People hire a trainer for 7 main reasons:

Advice for new Trainers- which certification Here’s some advice for new trainers – Which certification should a Trainer hold? The answer is like an ogre. Or an onion. It has layers. The first layer comes in the form of a question: where do you want to work?

There are only so many hours in a day and a Trainer’s income is limited to how many of those hours they can fill. Trading time for money means scaling is near impossible. So how do you advance your training career? Easy. Become a Fitness Professional.

These are Boston’s best female Trainers: Megan Beck and Marcy Tillman. Wait a second? Why do you have to qualify them by gender? Why Boston’s best Female Trainers? Can’t they just be two of Boston’s best Trainers? Period. You’re right. They are two of the best trainers, regardless of sex. Their gender recommends them further, however, because let’s face it: trainers are dealing with the body. There’s certain things about being male or female that can’t be explained. They have to be experienced.