Forum: Personal Trainers Section

Hey yall! Im new here and looking to transition from engineering to working as a PT/gym owner or helping local gym owners as that's always been my first passion:) Can you guys answer a few questions please, so that I can get an idea of what really goes on behind the curtains of a PTs/gym...

The gym owner at the gym I go to said it would be $300-400 to get a certification, so I have to skip that. So I am looking to be a uncertified PT. How do I go about doing this? Do gyms require clients pay them or myself? Would I have to go for gym members willing to pay for training AND the...

I currently have a full-time job, working normal hours at 7AM-5PM (8 or 9 a few nights of the year) in finance. I enjoy what I do and make an excellent salary doing it. I was certified through Equinox for personal training (while studying for my full-time MBA), passed NCSF with flying colors, and...

Im looking to starting on my road to becoming a trainer. I have already looked at a lot of post about the different *****. While looking at the ISSA site i found the information about the Exercise Science degree program. What i want to know is what would be the difference between the cert and this....

I'm meeting with a 13 year old later to help him get started. I'm not a trainer but I figured that I could help him get on one of the novice programs and tell him how to eat. My only fear is that he is quite small and I'm not sure if he will even be able to lift the barbell in some lifts. I have a...

How much harder is the CSCS exam than NCSA-CPT exam? I’m interested in getting a first certification as a starter. However, when I glanced at the NCSA’s books, CSCS doesn’t look much more than CPT; am I mistaken? Or is there an easier certification to get a first rung on the ladder? Whilst...

So, I received my certification last year from a collegiate institute, actually went to school for PT. I live in NYC, the money I took to keep myself a float is starting to dwindle so I need clients like, NOW. I am a freelance personal trainer. I do not work for a gym. There are places here in...

Hey guys! I kind of need some suggestions regarding body mass because i am going to gym for more than year and a half now and my body weight is still same from last one year it always varies between 70-80 kg and i am eating 3 to 4 meals a day some times 3 .I am taking matrix whey protein and...

Just wondering how hard it is.

The gym I regularly go to, LA FITNESS is in need of personal trainers. My valet job just isn't doing it at the moment. The gym is about 10 minute drive from me and I've been going there for about 4 years now. I started extremely scrawny and got a little built over 2 year span. Ate a little too...

Four years ago today, I started training people out of my garage in the afternoons and evenings, while still training people at the globogym in the mornings. Five months later I did my last shift at the globogym, and have trained people exclusively in the garage ever since. Ask me anything,...

So, yesterday I passed the NASM exam. I am both relieved to be done with it and excited to transition into the fitness industry. From what I have gathered - most indicate that getting a job in a gym is the standard way to start, get a feel for everything and establish a client base. I am...

Good Morning All, I am looking into becoming a CPT. I am looking at NASM and ACE. Can any of you tell me experiences you have all had with either one?

First and foremost, I am not a trainer. I am a strongman competitor that works a 9-5 job. However, I wanted to understand and get some incite on what the journey is like to be a trainer. I ask because training a client is different than doing a low energy day job. What could be understood and...

So believe it or not I strained my transverse (comment below if you want story or not). My question is simple and straight to the point, do your abdominals/rec/trans/obs/ster all get bigger and stronger after a strain?

Hi there ! First of all I'm a Malaysian. Currently 23 . I've been training for about 5 years now. Competed in a couple of powerlifting meets and now , due to work restrictions I'm using calisthenic training to save time as well as to make my training more flexible. Anyways I've...

Hi, I am a personal trainer with a kinesiology honours degree. I run my own company, "Personal Trainer in Toronto PTinTO dot com. Some of my clients want training at the gym where I workout. They pay their membership fees. The trainers are my gym give me mean faces and are apparently pissed...

I am currently a personal trainer at LA Fitness. This is not my ideal place to train but it is my best option right now for where I live and lack of business knowledge to go out on my own. Im looking for a website and app that I can use to build and send workouts to my clients. There are so many...

I'm going to be enrolling in a class to take one of these exams. Which should I take? Which is better?

Best recurring billing merchant? I've used Authorize since 2014 after having problems with Intuit. I have all clients on 28 day billing cycles. Want to compare fees with other places. Intuit had coding messed up where it wasn't allowing me to set up auto billing cycles and it literally took them...

Does anyone have experience of the pay structure for personal trainers that work at the YMCA?