Still awaiting comment from Bedros. Can anyone get him to comment?

Thanks
Renee

And you can then slowly start pulling clients into your private or semi-private sessions from here –

Sounds very good – good luck with that!

I have approached the president of the Sports Club at my organisation about teaching a group class (probably aerobics and some body weight training). She has no problem with it but I will have to start after 8 June (preparing for a fitness competition).

Do you think this is a good way to gain experience or should I still try to go to school? Apart from the online certification course, what are other resources that I can gain information? Any good book or program recommendations will be accepted.

And yeah, it’s true that with special populations you will need a high level of technical knowledge …

But if you have chosen the relatively healthy segment of the general to target your services, and have your own unique product you’re offering them, the best step is to get started on your journey and learn rapidly along the way -

The commitment to learning and mastery is a given – that’s why we rarely talk about it here – but unless you get real world experience in reaching new ideal clients with it, it’s useless -

No Way!!!!!

The main reason why USA is overweight is because they can’t stick with a workout. People lack consistency.

That’s why, as a Personal Trainer, you must have your clients like you. Don’t lecture them with the certification wisdom – people don’t like to be lectured in the first place, and often the more certifications you have, the less you ’speak their language’

If they like you….they come back to the workout…and that’s how they get in shape.

The reason i tell you that you should get your education is that it takes a significant amount of time to learn the things you would in school, on your own. Going to continuing education courses and reading textbooks on your own would take longer than just sucking it up and doing it. The reason there is controversy on this topic is that a lot of the older trainers that have been doing it for a while and they have learned all that they need over the years so they sometimes influence younger people to do the same. Just starting out school and internships are by far the most valuable, and the safest.

Jason – What channels did you go through to get certified? Did you attend NPTI as well?

NPTI doesn’t go into depth about children’s fitness. I still need a source that provides valuable information. Does any of the personal trainers on this blog specialise in children’s fitness?