How many clients do you balance at one time?

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SabinMash

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How many clients do you balance at one time? In any given week, how often do most of you meet with how many clients? I'm thinking of becomeing a personal trainer, and am just trying to gain some more information on it.
 
It's all conditoinal depending on the person and thier goals... but on average I have about 30-35 client hours per week (aka 30-35 hours of actual training), on top of that I have about 5-15 hours where I do fitness assessments... But some I meet twice a week, once a week, every other week, some times once a month... I don't know exactly, but I'd say I have almost 40-50 people that I 'Train"...
 
If you are starting off with little/no exercise experience, you can think about anywhere between $20-50/hr either at a club or independently... But once you get your experience under you and have successful clients, then you can go anywhere between $20-100/hr...

Like right now, I'm working at a private club and make $40/hr, but that's with only 1 1/2 years of personal training experience... so at the 2 year mark with another certification, I'll bump it up to $50....
 
Well, what is your current level of education as far as fitness/nutrition/anatomy? ACE is a good level of certification for beginners... More 'advanced' certifications is like NSCA/CSCS/NASM/etc...
 
That's what I've heard too, that ACE is very good for a first certification. I personally have very little formal education in the field, as of now.
 
Then ACE would be a good start for you, and then I would also recommend even start working with a larger corporate club, because then they have the money to provide a little bit more education, build up experience/education that way, then once you feel comfortable, go for a more 'advanced' certification, and then if you wanted to do more self-employed personal training you can do so since you have the background....
 
Well, you sure could try, but the certification is not going to make you a 'good' or 'bad' trainer, it's your experience and your clients success... One of the trainers at the club I work at is just ACE certified, and their clients see great success... and about 2 months ago, a trainer left and she had AFAA, NASM, and like a degree in Phy. Ed.... clients didn't see any results...

So it's just on what you do, if you don't have the background and you know the basic exercises but don't understand the human body, get ACE, and get experience... But if you know more about the human body, like ATP, syntergistic dominance, etc... then you could go more NASM/CSCS/etc...
 
Nasm

Thanks for the info. I am really leaning toward NASM because it has been mentioned in this area more. I do realize that the trainer is the person, not certification, so I hope I have an advangtage. I love working out, and interacting with people. If I have trouble with the anatomy, I will just study anatomy harder (with another book or something).
 
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