Personal Training

Amit Kothiyal


A person is said to be physically fit if he or she is physically sound, healthy and he or she has the ability to perform physical activities well. Nowadays more than 60 % of people say that they don’t have enough time to running for an hour or hit the gym. But all these people want to be fit and get into better shape.

No doubt people all over the world are more and more health conscious, but most of them don’t know how actually complete fitness can be achieved. Although one can prepare his / her personal fitness plan provided some important tips and precautions have been taken into consideration, otherwise it can cause adverse effects.

Online books and videos about fitness training can be helpful to some extent but has the drawback of non confirmation that you are adopting them correctly.

If you can not visit gyms or health clubs and also are not able to make up your mind to rely upon books or videos, then the best option for you could be hiring a personal trainer for few days. Personal training sessions are very popular these days among people who want a focused fitness program designed for their individual needs and implementing it in the right direction at their own place.

You may hire a certified and professional personal fitness coach who can provide you fitness training sessions with a well organized fitness plan as per your age, sex, medical condition and your daily works schedule at your home or office.

Benefits of hiring a Personal Fitness Coach:

Diet plan - Personal fitness coach prepare daily diet plan in which he / she decides that what are your calorie requirements and how can you get it perfectly. Fitness trainer know very well that according to trainee’s age, height, weight and medical condition what calories requires to get high fitness results.



Fitness training sessions - On the basis of trainee’s age, sex, weight, height and medical condition fitness instructor prepares the physical exercise session plan in which he or she decides what type of exercise is required for trainee and which exercise a trainee should do first and for how many times. Fitness coach divides the whole fitness programs in different small sessions and set the priorities and time of exercise according to particular fitness trainee. This training program you can further continue by yourself at your home.



Exercise Equipments- Personal fitness trainer generally bring fitness equipments needed for exercising and also can guide you what kind of equipments you should use to carry on with your fitness program.



Physical and Mental fitness – Perfect physical fitness is directly correlated to mental fitness.

A certified fitness trainer trains you to develop a positive attitude and motivates you for exercising so that you lead a healthy life.

Kaiser Serajuddin


This article is a continuation of Part I, where we went over steps 1-3 in taking your personal training practice independent.  Here are the next two steps in the process.

Step 4 - Getting Clients (Believe In Yourself)

Let’s talk about getting clients.  Even after you make your move to quit your personal training job and go independent, the one thing that you still need as a trainer is the real belief that it’s possible to succeed on your own.  No matter how easy we call it and how many other trainers have done it, going out on your own without any clients can be very scary. I can definitely relate.  That’s the one thing of which I assure other trainers - here are the three things that were the gist of the advice I typically give to newly independent personal trainers.

1.  If you can do it in a gym you can do it solo.

If you’ve been struggling in a gym until now, fighting with other trainers for leads, always under the pressure of a quota, and having to train a ton of hours, then you can surely make it solo - it’s in fact much easier than working for someone else in a typical gym environment.

2.  Push new clients hard for leads.

To be a successful solo trainer, you don’t need all of the aggressive ninja hard sell and referral tactics — those all have their place, but this level can be a more laid back and easy game.  But that doesn’t take away from the fact that you do need to be aggressive, and that’s most important when starting out.  You need to push to turn one client into two, then two into four, four into eight, etc. Every successful personal trainer will tell you about the one client that brought in tons of referrals and got their whole business started - you need to cultivate this type of phenomenon so you can get tons of clients without spending money on marketing costs.  Leads from referrals are free.

3.  Set training hour and income goals on a weekly basis.

You need to set a goal of how many hours you want to train and how much you want to make, and then push to hit that number.  Reschedule missed client sessions immediately, book sessions frequently, and if you have an hour already taken, then double it up and run a semi-private session - whatever it takes, get your sessions in! A session is money for us trainers, so the more sessions you can get in, the more you’ll make.

Step 5 - Hustle

Once you made the clean break from the gym, you’ll find that you have a ton of free time on your hands.  This is the time to hustle. There are a lot of on people and places to tap - you can find these places on your own, if you look in the right spots.

Time Management

The one thing I often remind new trainer about is the importance of time management.  It’s very easy to waste a lot of time and gas driving around pursuing pointless things during this phase.  Instead, use the phone and tie down appointments and do as much detective work as possible.  Time management is most important for trainers - watching every minute, if for no other reason than so that you have more time to really take off, and do the things you want to do, which is what this is all about anyway.

If you were on the fence, I hope that shows you this is definitely something anyone can do.