Im a brand new trainer looking for advice

[GTL_fo_Sho]

Hey,
I am currently located in the orange county area and I have just finished up getting my certification and completing an internship. I would like to ask a few questions.

1. How should i go about looking for work? and where would be a nice place to start?
2. How do most trainers find effective exercises to train clients with?
3. When do you start to feel confident that you are training people with the right exercises pertaining to their age, weight, and gender because i feel like that might be hard to get down without any experience.
4. What is the best way to be prepared to take on any client as a trainer?
5. Is it true that you learn how to train mostly just from getting in there and training clients?

 

[Pure Pilates]

Sounds like you need more intership hours and then after a while you might start feeling better. Good Luck

 

[Academy780]

Hey,
I am currently located in the orange county area and I have just finished up getting my certification and completing an internship. I would like to ask a few questions.

1. How should i go about looking for work? and where would be a nice place to start?
2. How do most trainers find effective exercises to train clients with?
3. When do you start to feel confident that you are training people with the right exercises pertaining to their age, weight, and gender because i feel like that might be hard to get down without any experience.
4. What is the best way to be prepared to take on any client as a trainer?
5. Is it true that you learn how to train mostly just from getting in there and training clients?

These are all questions you needed to ask BEFORE you get certified and spend your time, energy and money. To address your question.... you need to go to the obvious places to look for work and work all the angles (women, kids, athletes...)

 

[crushtime]

Hey,
I am currently located in the orange county area and I have just finished up getting my certification and completing an internship. I would like to ask a few questions.

1. How should i go about looking for work? and where would be a nice place to start?
2. How do most trainers find effective exercises to train clients with?
3. When do you start to feel confident that you are training people with the right exercises pertaining to their age, weight, and gender because i feel like that might be hard to get down without any experience.
4. What is the best way to be prepared to take on any client as a trainer?
5. Is it true that you learn how to train mostly just from getting in there and training clients?

1) check your local gyms and see if they contract out their training program to actual training companies to run or if the actual gym runs the personal training. It will be alot easier to get hired if its ran by the gym.

2)Bro, it will be easier than you think...you will sit down and go over so much stuff with your potential client...age, diet, BF, weight, injuries, family illness history, blood pressure...you will know what the client can and cannot do.
>Men's Health- The Big Book of Exercises. It has great examples of free weight variation workouts.

3) You'll feel confident that you know your shit when you bust their ass...dont pussy foot around to much, they will think your very ineffective.

4) Its a sales pitch, know your info and make them feel like they dont know anything, make them feel that your their encyclopedia of physical knowledge haha

5)you pick up alot as you go, especially if there are alot of trainers at the place you work