Forum: Personal Trainers Section

My goal is to become a personal trainer. I enjoy working out, like to teach, and like the idea of helping others meet their goals.My wife is in the service and there are 3 jobs available at all bases for the military spouse. Casher or stocker (bx,commissary,BK, etc) Home daycare, or Independent...

Hows it going? Ill start this with a little background. Im 23, played rugby in college, and have a pretty athletic background. Although I never really got into weight training until 2 years ago and have had a couple injuries along the way so progress has been slowed. Regardless, Im around 5'11...

I work out of two gyms a mile from each other same company (they bought out another gym). A bigger gym that gets me 75% of my pay and the smaller one that gets me 25% of my pay. At the smaller gym they recently hired a new personal trainer. He has been doing ALL of the assessments in the last...

Im talking about other independent trainers who charge alot cheaper than you? You run an add, and next thing you know you see other trainers, charging a much cheaper price than you. How do you cope with that? I see trainers charging $10-$20/hr. Does that not hurt our profession? Price is...

I plan on taking the NSCA-CPT examination in the middle of July I have been preparing myself for a long time now for this and would like to hear from others what the test was like(I'll be taking the computer test because the written doesn't come to my area till about December)? Anything that should...

So i have a job lined up at my gym to be a trainer, I signed up to take the test through NESTA, and i wanted to work with one of the trainers at the gym just to see how things went and such so he gave me the study guide for it so i didn't have to buy the expensive books. But what im wondering is...

My pt, tony won 1st place in the 2007 IFBB all naturals comp. Anyway, had a long arse chat with him 2day, he cleared up alot of stuff for me. But anyways ive been stuck on 100kg bench for some time, his advice was to instead of doing absolute intensity to increase the volume, not the...

im going the ace route because it is suppose to be the quickest, i know i need to pass a cpr class, but i need to know what i need to know to pass the exam, i have already tooken nutrition in my college, what would be the quickest way to learn what i need to learn to pass this class, would i need...

Now, I know that now commercial gym will employ you unless you buy a relevant certification, but how about if you work for yourself or for an independant gym that doesn't require you to have particular qualifications? I doubt many trainees would care, so long as you were providing the kind of...

i just got certified and i have have 2 clients 3 times a week... im a college student and the money is fine i was just wondering if i am making diets that would work for anyone correctly... my diets are made according to my experiance not what i learned from my cert... here is an example of lean...

I recently got a few referrals to private train some wealthy clients that are not members of the gym. The trouble is though that I don't have any extra equipment aside from 5 and 10lb DBs. Now I know there are body weight exercises such as moving planks, ab work, overhead squats with the 10lb dbs...

Hello everyone... Just wondering what you can tell me they should have? The gym I go to has a few people classes as "Personal Trainers" and a few "Fitness Instructors" but several of them seem their main workout is McDonalds. So I was wondering, what certificates they should have...so I can...

How far in advance do you make sessions for clients? Obviously its going to be different for each client but on average will have the weeks/months sessions worked out of do you do it on the fly?

Hello personal trainers, I am a 23 yr old male finishing my last year of college . I am majoring in business administration w/ con. in Marketing. I enjoy being in the gym and I like sports. Also I like helping others. I am not the most fit person in the world, so if i were to workout and get paid...

Hey there. Does anyone have any suggestions for a five day a week workout plan for women wanting to lose bodyfat? I am after this for someone who is inexperienced in the gym environment (age, early 20's) and want it to incorporate resistance and cardio training. Thanks heaps for any replies! Ian

I'm about to enroll in the NSCF home study course, but before I did I wanted to get people's opinions on it here. Reps for quality answers :) For a first certification(temporary, I'll get other certs after I get my degree in college) is it worth the money? Are the colleges that supposedly...

Hey every1,,, I plan a temp move to california for a number a months in 2 years... I would like to do a course in physiotheraphy while there, Would any1 have any info on any course available?

I have been building mass over the past 10 weeks since my last show. Recently I have switched from regaining my strength using HIT training over to hypertrophy training using higher rep ranges and shorter rest periods. I have done plenty of this type of training in the past, but the pain is...

So I have been PTing in the local gym for about 20 months. We can determine our own rates. So I started off on the bottom end of the price range and now I need to bump things up some. Basically I have been taking walk ins etc and inevitably they balk at actually having to pay for a trainer even...

I need a book asap that goes over the ins and outs of being a good personal trainer.. What out there would you all reccomend?

I plan on working part time as a PT starting this fall when I get back to school. I'm going to try to aim at fellow students, professors, and the general public (in that order of importance). Obviously, I'll be making less money for training the students, but I'm not in it for money, I just want...

are there any gyms that basically just charge a trainer a use fee and the client does not have to be a member. . if so any names. . or anyone know any in Ny?. . thanks in advance. .

I have no idea about the rules and regulations surrounding gyms and similar operations. For example are there all kinds of obligatory insurances that have to be in place? That kind of thing, really. I mean, could anyone just stick a load of gear in a room and put a sign up, then charge membership...

I plan to get my certification when I turn 18 but in the mean time why not get a head start. What should I study? I was thinking.... skelitcal system Muscular system Antagonist/agonist muscle originates and where they insert Learn the heart rate and bf equation what else do you recommend?