Forum: Personal Trainers Section

Everyone has their own likes and dislikes in life and fitness is no exception. With regards to exercise only (excluding diet, sedentary, etc.) Who are those people with fitness habits you just CANNOT understand? I really just cannot understand some runners. The runners that either run in...

Hello everyone, I recently completed as blog series outlining my experiences in the fitness career path. Hopefully some of you might find it helpful, or at least get some ideas to put to trial. Here's the 3-part series: Directions Toward a Career in Fitness, Part 1 Directions Toward a Career in...

This is a somewhat sensitive topic to a lot of trainers because your appearance doesn’t necessarily take away from your knowledge when it comes to health and fitness. So the argument can be made that you can be an incredible trainer while at the same time be 100 pounds overweight. I understand...

If you have experience and information regarding a particular health club, your help in building this list for the sake of all personal trainers is greatly appreciated. Reminders: If you are a personal trainer, unless you are working floor shifts or employed at a very unique club, you are...

Well guys after many months of work, it is almost completed! Final pieces of equipment are in and we are officially opening this location in 1 week! Designed to be 5 star, tell me what you think! The Studio: The Lockers: The Shower:

I got an email from NHE friday saying this Wellness Professional, Your resume was received via In terms of your resume, we are interested in discussing your availability in relation to an open Personal Fitness Management Specialist (PFMS) position. This is not a sales or marketing...

I see it so much in the gym, preacher curl machine and other useless exercises (exercises for biceps, isolation tricep exercises) is almost always used by like..at least...6-7 trainers with a large variety of clients over time. I've heard similar things from other people from other gyms. I also...

This should be a fun thread. I've noticed I break down and think of everyday things differently since training. You know you're a personal train when you assess random people's posture. When having sex you think "damn she has good hamstring flexibility" When you are excited to go to your "job"

I am going to go on a rant, and I am sure some of you will read this and say "I know EXACTLY what hes talking about." Here goes: I come from a strength and conditioning background. For those of you unaware of what this really means (to me), it means that I have dealt with college athletic...

I see so many personal trainers who dont even have a respectable physique, seriously some of them look like they dont even workout at all, today i saw a personal trainer training a client, this trainer had incredibly skinny arms yet was carrying a decent amount of weight around his mid section. Who...

NHE Certification Personal Fitness Management Specialists Job Monster.com sent my resume to NHE for the PFMS position. I've done a lot of research on the company and have found them to be legit. The problem is the mastertrainer exam they use to test your expertise. Everyone says it's harder than...

Is it legal for me to train clients without having any sort of certification? Of course I will tell them I am not certified, but is there anything illegal about it?

There are the obvious ones but can you think of words that you hate that aren't as common as bulk, ripped, six pack abs, etc.

Judging on appearance, could the way a pt looks possibly get them more clients? I'm talking about someone who looks like a bodybuilder opposed to someone who just looks healthy.

Yeah yeah, you've been working out for years. You're experienced and you know everything there is about working out because your older brother has been reading Muscle and Fitness for years and you watched him working out as you were growing up. You yourself are in top physical condition so that...

Most career personal trainers spend countless hours in gyms throughout the years and have a chance to see the good and bad of gym behavior.... Here are mine Shocking Cases of Poor Gym Etiquette I've witnessed Besides the widespread curling in the squat rack and leaving dumbbells all over...

I have been doing lots of crossfit lately and my cardio is AMAZING! Before crossfit I could box 3 rounds of moderate pace doing my regular stair runnings and here and there weight training but since I have been incorporating cross fit I can go 4 INTENSE rounds throwing lots of punches and having...

Hey Everybody, I'm taking this exam in about a month, and was wondering if anyone had any advice. I've been a personal trainer for about four years and have a handful of certifications, so I really don't feel that I need to purchase the study guide. Is this test unique to the point where a...

I am starting this thread mainly to hold myself accountable, but if anybody would like to join you are MORE than welcome to! I have been a personal trainer for 6 years now, and working in gyms for longer than that on every side. I worked the front desk, sold memberships, sold training then...

I want to make better nutrition recommendations for my clients beyond "choose lean meats, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds." I have a client that wants to gain weight so I calculated his BMR using the Harris Benedict Formula and then added 500 calories putting him at a total of 3,000 per day....

At the local gym they have a bunch of personal trainers and one that is like the head trainer or something. He is certified and has his bachelors in something im not sure of. He is a marathon runner so he knows about nutrition and cardio id say. Not so much about lifting i'd say. Anyways I drop...

At another gym I attend on occasion, there's a female trianer, who was once a body builder that I've been eyeing. I love the fact that she pays close attention to her clients on the floor, and documents every single workout routine Thing is, I'm not sure If she'll understand my body. I'm I...

It makes me sick to my stomach. Time and time again there's some scrub who just became "certified" teaching people improper training methods. Just because you passed your course doesn't mean you know what your doing as much as me passing a physics exam doesn't mean I can teach a course in physics....