Any personal trainers that can answer a few questions?

[triplesixmaf]

im thinking about getting my certification and becoming a personal trainer. any guys out there done it is it worth the money to get certified and is it something you pick up quickly if you have lifted and studied it for 10 years or so?

 

[triplesixmaf]

also whats it like working in a gym do you have to get your own clients or do you get them assigned to you. anyone work for 24 hour fitness?

 

[ghettostudmuffin]

Well I just got hired as a personal trainer for a gym in my neighborhood that is a major competitor with 24 hour fitness lol.

Going through the training right now and it's pretty sales intensive.

I have about 5 years total training experience and I didn't have to have any certs to get hired, but I am being put through a 2 week course that I had to pay 250 bucks for. So far it's been a very good class. I'll get an apex certification from it.

I'll also have to get NASM certified within a year too.

As far as getting clients I have to get most of them, but may be assigned a couple.

I like being in the gym so I think once I get the sales aspect down it should come pretty natural for me.

So ya, I think if you love training and being in teh gym it will probably help you alot in amking the transition to a PT.

Man, it's kind of ironic when you think about it. I made a post about all the dumb stuff I see gym PT's make their clients do awhile ago and now I'm gonna be a PT. LMAO!

 

[bignate73]

I worked for 24 Hour in Long Beach for 3+ years.

 

[anthrax]

If you're a female looking like the one in your avatar I can be your 1st client

 

[atomicgym]

I have been doing personal training for over 8 years. Love it. Not certified but my clients don't care. Sometimes certification is good but any Tom Dick and Harry can take a weekend course and be certified. Even if they have never lifted in there life

 

[Snypr]

I worked for 24 Hour in Long Beach for 3+ years.

I'm moving to SoCal next year and have wanted to do the same. What were some of the good/bad things about working for 24 Hour? Any info is helpful.

 

[spydercustoms]

being a personal trainer in Cali is like being a car in NY.....there's more than one on every corner. You better have a good marketing plan in place whether you work for yourself or some large over populated gym or move to a smaller less saturated city.

 

[Lee]

i was thinking about taking college courses to major in athletic training, then becoming a PT for higher level athetes. i have the frame to be a mass monster if i train and eat right. from what i hear a PT for football players get paid over a thousand dollars a session for team training.

 

[sasharawkz]

I am taking athletic training at University (it's called "athletic therapy" in Canada) I love it, and I find using your training knowledge to rehab injuries is an amazing tool to have in your "kit". The team I am doing my field placement with already has a strength and conditioning coach, but I was given some leeway with a player who broke her thumb. I was given 4 weeks to keep/improve her fitness while she was in a cast. She played this weekend with great results. Lee, if you plan on becoming a strength and conditioning guy, I'd take the NSCA CSCS training, once you finish your degree.

Best of luck!!!