personal trainers

[player1]

Are there any peaple who train others as a sole vocation.My job is my enemy it is geared to tear one down nutritionaly aswell as time ways 15 hours a day kinda stuff.so im considering doing something i love.watching peaple grow physically aswell as mentally by weight training What kind of schooling is needed also can i make some good $$.

[BIGSARGE]

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AT 50 BUCKS AN HOUR YEAH U CAN MAKE MONEY OR YOU CAN GET A JOB AT LIKE GOLDS.. I DONT KNOW WHAT % THEY GET THO

[Equalizer]

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Most places require a 4 year degree in biology/fitness related major or PT Certification from one of the recognized organazations (ex. ISSA, there are quite a few)

[NATE]

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Are there any peaple who train others as a sole vocation.My job is my enemy it is geared to tear one down nutritionaly aswell as time ways 15 hours a day kinda stuff.so im considering doing something i love.watching peaple grow physically aswell as mentally by weight training What kind of schooling is needed also can i make some good $$.

answering your question would take more time that i have. There are several certified trainers here and we all know our stuff. T-Mann most definately knows his. As far as what each course entails, that is where YOU need to do the work. Google search "Personal training certifications" or something to that effect. Then you can narrow it down and get back to us.

[Equalizer]

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Also check out this thread......

http://www.fitnessgeared.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49426&highlight=personal+trainers

[player1]

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Also check out this thread......


http://www.fitnessgeared.com/forum/showthread.php?t=

49426&highlight=personal+trainers

Good thread thanx

[Equalizer]

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yea there is some good info in there about PT

[builtbigger4you]

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check ACE. I bought the book and will be testing in a few months. it's a lotta shit bro, but worth it as ace is recognized everywhere. just type ACE personal blah blah into yahoo

[solidground]

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if you want to make real money training you need to do in-homes or have your own place..most gyms dont pay that well. find rich areas/people and you can easily make 50-100$/hr

[player1]

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cool man

[JsJs24]

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I have plenty of people ask me for training routines and diets but I get tired of doing it. I realize now that I don't have an interest in doing it for a job.

[Slightly Enhanced]

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I have plenty of people ask me for training routines and diets but I get tired of doing it. I realize now that I don't have an interest in doing it for a job.

i got burned out on it, plus you must realize that you have to be a salesman as much as a trainer

[Equalizer]

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I was thinking about doing this as well and i dont think i could handle telling people what to do and then them not do it and wonder why they are still not seeing progress

[T-Man007]

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if you want to make real money training you need to do in-homes or have your own place..most gyms dont pay that well. find rich areas/people and you can easily make 50-100$/hr

So true, so true.

Most gyms will rape you out of your hard earned money. But then again you get to use their equipment. Anyways, you can try to find a gym that takes very little or none of the money. My buddy Jeff has a gym here in my town and he doesn't charge any of his trainers anything. He lets them do there own thing and he tells the members that the agreement they make with teh trainer is completely indipendent from him and his gym. And, as you can imagine, there are some really good trainers and some really bad trainers there.

[T-Man007]

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i got burned out on it, plus you must realize that you have to be a salesman as much as a trainer

The most successful trianers I've met are very intelligent in the fact that they change their client's programs so much from week to week and they fill them with soo much information that their clients have this "I need them" feeling. Seriously, they don't write anything down, they go from compounds to core specific to machines, they mix up the reps and sets, they mix up so much stuff that the client is just doing what they are told and never get the first idea that they could do it on their own. I have noticed two things about this type of trainer. 1- they have the most consistant clients, and 2- their clients get the best results. So naturally, #2 contributes to #1 and the cycle just keeps repeating. This one guy who used to be my head trainer was always booked out for atleast two months. He actually took an apprentice under his wing to teach her what he knew so he could lesson his load. Now, this guy was no fluff, he had degrees, he had certs, he even spent 3 years doing nothing but post injury reabilitaion. This guy was the shit. To bad his girl moved to Mississippi. I learned a lot of stuff from this guy.