Personal Trainer Working The Floor

Afi shares six simple rules for earning a healthy living as a certified personal trainer.

Personal trainer working the floor. One of my most popular blog posts is how to kill a sales pitch where i share a story about how a personal trainer completely botched his sales pitch when he approached me on the gym floor. Becoming a personal trainer is the easy part for most newly certified personal trainers making a living can be much more difficult. Traditionally in the health and fitness industry prospecting has been defined as the seeking out of new or potential clients unfortunately most prospecting techniques such as walking the floor in the facility performing follow up phone calls and even delivering informative health and fitness related seminars for the public are poorly understood rarely used and or viewed as. Apply to personal trainer floor staff retail sales associate and more.

Your role as the go to personal trainer in your gym is to empathise with their problem and offer solutions to solve it. For trainers who work in commercial fitness clubs this is where careers are made or broken. Robot as he called himself was trying to convince me to hire him. I spent so much time on the gym floor offering free advice spotting heavy lifters and stretching clients that i was actually accused of lifting money from the cash register because we didn t take on as many one time entry fees.

Sure you probably have some exercise science classes and a few certifications under your belt but nothing really prepares you for the reality of building a client base.