Steps to becoming a good personal trainer

This article is attended both for people thinking of becoming a good personal trainer and for people looking to find a good personal trainer.  When you have completed a reputable personal training course such as the YMCA personal trainer award your next step is finding work.  Of say 20 people who do a YMCA personal trainer course 1-3 will probably never finish it and around 12 will not get into personal training.  The reasons so little people actually become personal trainers after finishing their course is for the following reasons.

• Can’t find a personal training job
• Salary too low initially to consider working as a personal trainer
• Freelance personal training becomes too difficult and they give up in a few months

The people who do actually become personal trainers either work at a health club or go freelance.  Freelance straight away is very hard and I would say the success rate would be around 10%.  Most people start at a health club.  Starting salary would be around £18,000 a year and there are quite a few jobs but competitive.  Once you are working at a health club depending on your contract you can build up clients here.  After a year or so I would say around 40% of these personal trainers go freelance, there chance of success now would be alot higher I would guess around 40%.  Most freelance personal trainers though at this stage have another secure job to ensure they pay the bills.  From looking at this step by step process of becoming  a successful personal trainer you can see how much more difficult it is than it initially seems when you step through the doors of your course the first day.  I don’t think it is necessarily difficult just more difficult than people imagined.  The overall amount of successful freelance personal trainers from the group that initially attended the course is very low indeed.  If you are looking for a personal trainer and reading this article you can see how the personal trainers vary in quality at the different stages of the process.   A personal trainer working in a gym who has been there for 6 months is usually inexperienced and most of his knowledge is from the text book of the course.  By picking freelance personal trainers with years of experience you are getting a much better quality personal trainer.  The personal trainers however with lower experience will be cheaper.

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