I have a question for Personal Trainers

ShinySkyShaymin1994

I want to become a Personal Trainer and I would love to know all the classes I need to take and any options all classes along the way to become one.

I want to be able to know as much as possible to better help future clienteles.

Some example stuff are learning about diseases/Syndromes, the human body, the muscles etc

I have Autism and I always wanted to help people and I believe in my heart that I found my passion!

ninerbuff

If you can, take physiology and kinesiology courses at the very least. Other informational courses, you can pick up and continue to learn along the way.
Understand that knowing how to train people correctly is just a small portion of personal training. The biggest issue I've found with people who tried it and didn't do well was because they couldn't SELL personal training. If you can't sell training, you don't have clients. And this takes time to learn. It takes awhile to gain clientele then you have to attain new ones for the ones that you finish with. You also may have to give up more time because people will train when they are available and that may dinner time, or early mornings.
You'll also have to be diverse in training. Many new trainers end up giving the same program to everyone and that doesn't always work. Some people are fitter than others and some not fit at all.
Good luck to you if you pursue it. It's been great for me as long as I've been doing it.

A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

ShinySkyShaymin1994

ninerbuff wrote: »

If you can, take physiology and kinesiology courses at the very least. Other informational courses, you can pick up and continue to learn along the way.
Understand that knowing how to train people correctly is just a small portion of personal training. The biggest issue I've found with people who tried it and didn't do well was because they couldn't SELL personal training. If you can't sell training, you don't have clients. And this takes time to learn. It takes awhile to gain clientele then you have to attain new ones for the ones that you finish with. You also may have to give up more time because people will train when they are available and that may dinner time, or early mornings.
You'll also have to be diverse in training. Many new trainers end up giving the same program to everyone and that doesn't always work. Some people are fitter than others and some not fit at all.
Good luck to you if you pursue it. It's been great for me as long as I've been doing it.

A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

Thank you and yeah everyone's different what works for one person may not work for the other