Personal Trainer Salary- In gym

[OC Renegade]

In OC my trainers are charging $49 per workout each person in groups of 6 people. Works out to about $295 an hour split between myself and the trainer for about $140 each after processing and admin fees

Chris
http://www.kickbacklife.com/

 

[kasers]

I'm not sure where the other people on this thread are training, but is very possible to make training a full time job. You need to be knowledgeable, interested in your clients, and know how to sell yourself.

Making $5000 a month as an independant trainer requires 71 session hours over the course of a month at $70/hr (pretty much the market rate for basic personal training). That means about 18 session hours per week. Now, the clients you want to keep will want to train 2-3 times a week. So this means you need to find between 6 and 9 clients that are serious. It takes time to weed through the non-serious people.

Yup, exactly -

People go to their chiropractors at most once a month, nutritionists at most once every three months, and there doctor and dentist as little as possible!

Considering this, these other professionals need a huge number of clients to stay viable. They have to go to extraordinary lengths to gain qualifications to set them apart from their competitors. And managed health-care has robbed most health professions of their high earnings.

But Training is completely different. People see their trainers a minimum of twice, usually three times, and as many as four or five times a week. When you consider this, you only need a float of about a dozen steady clients to have a viable, thriving training practice.

 

[PerfectForm1]

Whoever said that using a personal trainer is for lazy people is either not a personal trainer or not a very good one.

There is a lot that goes into being a good personal trainer, a lot.

When I was working at the last gym, I was being paid about $20 an hour and I didn't know my ass from a hole in the wall, but I looked like a personal trainer.

I decided to start studying, and the next thing I know I can blow doctors minds with some of the stuff I know.

I will be charging $30 an hour to any gym that I work at, and $50-75 an hour for my personal clients very shortly here. There is something to be said about a trainer that knows enough not to overload the body with the wrong stuff (I am referring to everything from nutrition to mechanical stress).

Client want tid bits of information that they can USE, and put into Practice. Immediately.

resistance Training.
Posture, assess their posture, then in a gentle way explain it to them, then show them how to correct it, FIRST by showing them the muscles with an anatomical picture, then with exercises.

Explain breathing patterns, and blood pressure responses. (explain what blood pressure means if you have to)

Cardiovascular, explain what it means to lower your resting heart rate, and how that reduces the stress put on the heart. Then, once they understand that a lower heart rate at any given amount of workload is good, then explain to them how metabolism works at the different levels of workload, explain to them how to figure out their target heart rate (If you are worth a shit as a trainer you won't use the % of heart rate max method, you will use the VO2R or HRR method)... Explaining that a lower resting heart rate, and lower overall heart rate changes your metabolism so that you have to go off how much reserve ability you have...

Moving onto nutrition, the most important thing is not avoiding carbs or taking protein, it is learning about the different types of fats, and how they affect you, then learning about blood sugar control (even in a healthy kid it is important to start controlling cholesterol and blood sugar so they dont end up a sick adult, we aren't suppose to have to take prescritpions for metabolic shit at the young age of 60)

A good personal trainer finds out about physically active hobbies, interest that might be incorporated into the training program to keep their interest...

So, my point is, some trainers are worth $100 plus an hour, and some are only worth minimum wage... Depends on what you can contribute to your clients life.

I totally agree with you guys...he's just being ignorant. IF he knew any better he would know that more than half the population of pretty much any country is overweight...well in the u.s.a anyway...never mind the
% of people whom are obese ! Clients are out there, you just have to set yourself apart from everyone and rise to the top...if it was easy everyone would do it..

 

[kasers]

I totally agree with you guys...he's just being ignorant. IF he knew any better he would know that more than half the population of pretty much any country is overweight...well in the u.s.a anyway...never mind the
% of people whom are obese ! Clients are out there, you just have to set yourself apart from everyone and rise to the top...if it was easy everyone would do it..

Yeah, and not just with training, but beyond - they say the health/wellness/fitness industry is the next TRILLION dollar industry - the sky's the limit with this thing -