In-home personal training. Which type?

[billy]

If you had to choose between going to client's homes and training them with portable exercise equipment or have them come to your home since you already have a decent home gym set up that you can easily turn into a home studio, which would be a better choice?

I thought of a few cons and pros for each but wanted to get some input. I also noticed that most trainers here work at a health club. Are there any trainers that does in-home or work in training studio. Please share your experiences.

[dicko6]

I train my clients at my house in my garage which I've converted into a gym. The only real negative is the noise levels early in the morning when my wife's still trying to sleep. I have to be somewhat considerate of the neighbours also, I don't want to put them offside and have them hassling me all the time. Other than that it has been pretty good as it means I don't have to travel and can schedule clients one after another without wasting time.

[homerun16]

Do both go where the money is if they wont come to you and its better for them to workout at there home then go there

[billy]

I train my clients at my house in my garage which I've converted into a gym. The only real negative is the noise levels early in the morning when my wife's still trying to sleep. I have to be somewhat considerate of the neighbours also, I don't want to put them offside and have them hassling me all the time. Other than that it has been pretty good as it means I don't have to travel and can schedule clients one after another without wasting time.

I'm more concern about the liability and legality issues. Did you need to have a lawyer go over your training agreement? Do you need a business license or any kind of additional insurance on top of the personal trainer's insurance? More importantly, can you do a tax write off on your training equipment? Thanks.

[Maximum]

Going to their homes is what I wanted before. Now with public transportation going down the tubes in Chicago, I've been dreaming about how cool it'd be if I had a nice loft near the loop and set aside a section just for training people. I swear...training someone for 1 hour means I space off a whole hour before and after that for commute...if they come to me I can stack people within 10 minutes of each other.

[kserajuddin]

Going to their homes is what I wanted before. Now with public transportation going down the tubes in Chicago, I've been dreaming about how cool it'd be if I had a nice loft near the loop and set aside a section just for training people. I swear...training someone for 1 hour means I space off a whole hour before and after that for commute...if they come to me I can stack people within 10 minutes of each other.

Yup, those are definitely the cons - If you're seeing people on location, you need to charge a premium for all the extra effort it takes you -

In terms of legality, I don't think it's a problem - make a provision for this in your waver - make a few while you're at it -

[CoQ10]

I've been training people in their homes/offices for several years, but prefer working in a place where more equipment is available. Maintaining progressive overload is difficult when your resources are severely limited.

-C10