Personal Training Blog

Servicing a client refers to exceeding a client’s expectations regarding their experience in training. When the trainer takes the time to anticipate the needs and wants of the client, they elevate themselves in that client’s eyes. Now, obviously, leading a great training session with correct biomechanics, appropriate feedback and a progressive program design is essential. [...]

TRX will soon launch “TRX CORE,” an exclusive program available to TRX-qualified personal trainers. It’s designed to make members better trainers, help them acquire and retain more clients, while also running a better business. TRX CORE members will have access to new and restricted content made specifically for professional trainers and coaches. While much of [...]

As a manager of personal trainers, one of the essential jobs you have is to make sure your trainers get results with their clients. I have discussed how to gather that information in previous articles regarding evaluating trainers. But once you have that data, what do you do with it? There is only one answer [...]

Another aspect of evaluating and critiquing your trainers is the idea of attaching a monetary component to your grading scale. You can do this by attaching a dollar or commission percentage onto the characteristics of their performance that you evaluate. For example, you could assign a dollar amount to the following areas: acquisition of new [...]

Depending on your club’s structure and compensation, this is a great time of year to motivate and coach a trainer to get to the next level. Evaluating trainers can be based on several different criteria. Obviously, you will evaluate them as an employee of the club, but also you need to grade their effectiveness on [...]

As I have said previously in this blog, education is an important part of the personal training business. Having a primary personal training certification from a nationally-accredited organization is key and essential to establishing a professional and successful training department. But after that, then where should they go for continuing education? Having a secondary specialization [...]

As personal training managers, we can get caught up in focusing on monthly personal training revenue numbers. Sometimes, we get so caught up that we forget to check other metrics related to our business. This article will list and explain five top metrics that personal training managers should look at on a regular basis that [...]

The quality of your personal training program depends on the results your trainers provide your clients. The quality of your trainer’s product directly falls unto one person; the fitness manager. Managing individuals can be very tough and making sure every interaction they have with clients is positive is equally challenging. Here are some ways you [...]

Over the next few blogs I will discuss a study that I conducted that lead to identifying the seven “Critical Areas” that all Health and Fitness Professionals (HFPs) and HFP managers should focus on. Last week, I discussed “Critical Area One,” which detailed how each personal trainer should develop a meaningful personal mission and vision. This [...]

The reason I started writing is because I want personal trainers to become successful Health and Fitness Professionals (HFPs) as fast as possible, but also to have a career that they could retire from later in life! I had many fumbles along the way and do not want anyone to have to go through the same things [...]