Forum: Personal Trainers Section

I'm looking for designs to show a web designer so that I can get a my own fitness and personal trainer site made. Does anyone have fitness and personal trainer sites that they like the design of you would like to share? Feel free to share you own sites and let me know why you choose to with a...

Hello everyone! First time poster here. I am a 26 year old male and (as the title says) I have my NASM CPT exam on Friday. Over the past couple of months - (I did the self study) I've managed to read through the book, just taking it chapter by chapter. A normal day was reading one chapter,...

How do I find a knowledgeable trainer. Not one from la fitness that I know more than...

Why do alot of 4 day programs have you do your upper body the day before you do lower body? Mon. Press + assistance Tues. Dead + assistance Thursday. Bench + assistance Fri. Squat = assistance Just curious

Hey yall, just a few hours ago I passed my ACE exam! I'm going to share a few tips however, as I don't recommend doing what I did. I've been through 2 years of full time exercise physiology school, and crammed studying for ACE in last minute. A few things I would recommend really nailing down: ...

If there are any trainers that operate or own a private training studio out there I would love to know how you expanded your business. I have a small studio that I do private one on one training out of in OH. The problem that I am having is that the schedule is booked out every day of the week, I...

I literally know nothing. What sort of studying goes into each certification? Are some harder than others? Are we talking 4 weeks? 4 months? What do the tests look like?

Just looking for decent textbooks that focus on training - technique, muscle groupings to work together. Just started my cert 4 and the course content doesnt really cover it but being assessed on it. Any advice or resources are greatly appreciated.

Is there any place or gym i can train clients indoors with minimal payment or for free? How do you navigate this process? If I want to build a website and call it superproflexfitness (just pulling an example name) how do i go about copyrighting it etc?

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Hey everyone, Can anyone recommend any service that provide International liability insurance for personal trainers where you can safely train clients from different parts of the world. Thanks

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Hi every1, Maybe someone here helps me with this. I try to find any informations about jobs for PT's in USA for ppl from Europe. If someone know something about it I'll be very grateful for the answer. I'm a certyficated PT from Poland and I really want to move to USA and find a job as a gym...

Hello everyone - i just wanted to see if i could get some opinions on this. I am an ACSM CPT and hold my Bachelor's in Exercise Science. I also have paralysis from the chest down and use a wheelchair full-time. Almost exactly 4 years ago, I broke my neck diving into shallow water which caused...

For those of you who have the NSCA certified personal trainer credential, what's the best way to study for the exam? Do you really need all that study material they have posted on their website?

I'm the foreman for my family's construction company which requires me to be there full time but I also have my NASM certification and I'm working on my CES. As I'm preparing for my first bodybuilding show the demand for me to make workout plans with nutrition plans is growing , and I'd like to use...

Hey all - I've been creating meal plans for my PT clients to keep them on track and to bring in some extra $$, but they've become insanely time consuming to continually create on spreadsheets. Can anyone recommend an online meal planning program that they've used to create meal plans and manage...

I got my ACE personal trainer certification a couple months ago and my first day being a trainer is Thursday. I am fairly comfortable with everything to do with training considering I'm new, but I really struggled with the mobility assessment questions and I have little to no confidence in my...

How did you decide to name your fitness or personal training business? What factors and considerations did you think about? I'm considering going with my .com which would make sense. However I've been using it for a completely different industry and it would take some time to switch things...

Looking to know who offers the best CPT program; thinking of either ACE or NASM. Also, I never finished high school. Does anyone know how you have to furnish your diploma or GED? Do they really check this?

Hey BodyBuilding.com community! Mike Walker Fitness is a private personal training facility located in Panama City, FL and we are HIRING!! We have the best group of trainers currently available in our area, and we need more. Our demand for Personal Trainers is so high, we can't keep up. If you...

I'm looking at getting certified through ISSA and I was wondering what your experience are like as a trainers. Do you consider yourself employed through a gym or do you work for yourself? Do you create your own hours? How did you branch off and build up your own business?

For most of us trainers, prescribing meal plans, let alone macronutrient ratios and the like, are well beyond our scope of practice. We are supposed to simply tell people about government healthy eating guidelines. Let's have a look at that. Australian healthy eating guidelines for a 19-50yo...