Are you a newly qualified Personal Trainer? Are you an experienced Personal Trainer with some space for new clients? Do you want some more new clients? Do you want to start a new bootcamp? If you answered yes to any of those questions, now is the perfect time of the year to put some extra…
How to travel the world as a Personal Trainer
In order to travel the world without a serious amount of money saved up, you’ll need to work throughout your trip. You might think that in order to work in other countries you’ll need to be prepared to work in hospitality or some other menial job, or perhaps be a writer or designer that can…
What can be done to keep business booming when it gets wet and cold?
During the coldest months of the year, personal trainers need to keep a focus on managing their business performance, especially if their business is outdoors!. Read on to find out more.
Strength training for women over 50
“It’s as critical to your health as mammograms and annual doctor visits.” – Holly Perkins, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist What is strength training? Strength training (also called resistance training or weight training) involves applying resistance to muscular contraction to build your muscle strength and endurance, using free weights, weight machines, resistance bands or even…
Personal Trainers: How to Motivate Your Clients
As a personal trainer, training a client is the easy part. Knowing your anatomy, exercise technique and instruction will become second nature after a while. The hard part is trying to figure out how to motivate your clients to show up to training, then being able to motivate them throughout their workout. There is no black…
Common Myths vs Realities of being a Personal Trainer
Myth: Being a Personal Trainer keeps you fit Reality: A good Personal Trainer will observe their client from all angles while they exercise in order to correct technique. This is close to impossible to do while we are exercising ourselves, so most of the time we are at work we are standing, kneeling or crouching…
Personal Training for different personality types
A big part of being a Personal Trainer is connecting with your clients, and believe it or not, each and every client has their own unique personality. It is up to you, the PT, to adapt your approach to get the most out of your clients and to develop the PT/client relationship. Here is a…
Introducing medicine balls into a personal training program
Not to be confused with the softer exercise or Swiss ball, medicine balls can be used by a range of clients with different fitness goals.
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