As a personal trainer, your role is to create long lasting and sustainable changes in your clients’ life. In many cases though, trainers will rely on short term wins like ‘12 week transformations’ in order to market their services for client acquisition purposes. In reality, the real value of a pe...
A career change to personal training is something that many of our students have done, coming from completely different career backgrounds and corporate roles. Whilst some may see the move to a different industry, and one as demanding as personal training as daunting, coming from a different backg...
Becoming a personal trainer is the ideal career move for anyone passionate about health, fitness and helping others to achieve their goals. However, with an abundance of courses out there, choosing the right one to equip you with the right knowledge, skills and qualifications can be difficult. In ...
Large Group PT is one of the best ways to deliver high quality personal training to a number of people whilst minimising cost to the client. However, it can present challenges for the coach when it comes to spotting and correcting faults, with multiple people performing the workout simultaneously,...
Breaking into the fitness industry as a newly qualified personal training can be intimidating. It is a highly saturated market with professionals all offering similar services, however, the positive news is that the demand for high quality personal training services continues to grow. The key to sta...
Designing workout programmes is the foundation of personal training, whether it’s for clients in a gym, rehabbing an injury or coaching high performing athletes in sport. Being able to create a well designed workout programme will ensure your clients, whoever they are, stay engaged, motivated, and o...
The goal of programming a new training block for group PT is to create an effective and structured programme which aligns with your gym members’ goals, works with their abilities and progresses them over time. This article will break down the process of developing the perfect training block for grou...
Movement assessment is an evaluation by personal trainers which allows them to tailor a workout or plan specifically to each client. Specifically, it is the process whereby personal trainers will look at how clients move, checking for limitations, imbalances or over compensations and try to understa...
The time it takes to become a personal trainer is highly dependent on which course you take, the amount of time you can dedicate to your studies, and also your rate of learning. In this article, we’ll break down the process of becoming a personal trainer, including the qualifications needed, trainin...
It has become the norm for online courses, webinars and virtual meetings to be the main medium of learning in the fitness industry, with them offering a high degree of convenience for organisers and attendees, and lower overhead costs. Despite this however, there are still many benefits to attending...
