Question! Need advice!

[lvcitigrl]

Ok so I have a client that doesn't click with me! I have tried several things! I just feel tension and not sure how to handle it! Any suggestions?

[dasixthsun]

just tell her politely that you dont feel that you can accomodate her needs and refer her to another trainer

[Be-Be]

just tell her politely that you dont feel that you can accomodate her needs and refer her to another trainer

That's what I would do to. I might say something about scheduling issues and we're going to try a different trainer but that can sometimes backfire. Just try to make it a positive - I think this person is going to be a great trainer for you! Most of the time the client is as relieved as you as she is asking her friends what to do about you.

[alikaeos]

Ok so I have a client that doesn't click with me! I have tried several things! I just feel tension and not sure how to handle it! Any suggestions?

stand your ground. she'll give in soon.

[EMISGOD]

Ok so I have a client that doesn't click with me! I have tried several things! I just feel tension and not sure how to handle it! Any suggestions?

Out of curiosity, what does this mean, exactly?

[kserajuddin]

Ok so I have a client that doesn't click with me! I have tried several things! I just feel tension and not sure how to handle it! Any suggestions?

I know what you mean -

I don't train people that I don't find it personally rewarding to be around -

Call it unprofessional or self-centered, but that's just how I feel -

That's why I became a Personal Trainer and didn't get a "real" job -

You'll never hear me bitching about how I don't like my co-workers or boss or things like that - I don't know how many years that's added to my life, but I value that my job gives me that privilege -

At the end of the day, if someone's stressing you out, it's just now worth it - cut em off -

[EMISGOD]

I know what you mean -

I don't train people that I don't find it personally rewarding to be around -

Call it unprofessional or self-centered, but that's just how I feel -

That's why I became a Personal Trainer and didn't get a "real" job -

You'll never hear me bitching about how I don't like my co-workers or boss or things like that - I don't know how many years that's added to my life, but I value that my job gives me that privilege -

At the end of the day, if someone's stressing you out, it's just now worth it - cut em off -

This is really interesting to me. I trained people because they were giving me money and they were further adding to my glory (for lack of better word) as a trainer and giving me unsolicited referrals. I did not really do it because it was personally rewarding and couldn't have cared less about that. I wasn't trying to make friends, I was trying to reshape bodies and lives.

The criteria I had were whether they were paying or not and if they were following instructions. Outside of that, there were no other real considerations...

[jules_d1]

This is really interesting to me. I trained people because they were giving me money and they were further adding to my glory (for lack of better word) as a trainer and giving me unsolicited referrals. I did not really do it because it was personally rewarding and couldn't have cared less about that. I wasn't trying to make friends, I was trying to reshape bodies and lives.

The criteria I had were whether they were paying or not and if they were following instructions. Outside of that, there were no other real considerations...

fair but i guess in a perfect world you'd like to work with people you enjoy working with rather than those you HAVE to work with

[EMISGOD]

fair but i guess in a perfect world you'd like to work with people you enjoy working with rather than those you HAVE to work with

It was a different time. I was full-time in college back then, with a very full-time girlfriend also, so I had to train around her schedule. I also lived about an hour away from where I was going to school, so my weekdays went like this:

Wake up at 4:30 am. Walk 1 mile to bus stop. Ride 1 hour to college. Start classes at about 7:00 am. Finish classes around 2:30 pm or so. Study for an hour with gf some days, start training people whenever she left to go to her job until about 8 or 9 at night. Hang out with her until the last bus back to where I lived, which was 11 pm. Get back to closest bus stop at midnight. Walk another mile back home. Get into bed around 1:00 am. Repeat M - F.

Weekends was more like sleep in until I woke up, then do the walking and riding the bus bit and hang out with gf all day Saturday, any holiday and sometimes Sunday. Most Sundays I caught up on studying. I followed that schedule for about 3 years, but wasn't training people until the last year and a half to 2 years...

I mostly fell into training people as it was and thought it was mostly a pain in the ass, but I could charge at will and it was easier than getting/keeping my former "real" job...