Just (finally...) set myself up as a Personal Trainer

[AdamGB]

heheh walk in looking like Brad Pitt, walk out looking like Kid Thunder...

[Memphis]

Nice one mate, hope it goes well for you.

[Wadeb_21]

Thats good news bro. I have a friend of mine that him and his wife are both personal trainers. When they first started out it was kinda rough but after they built up there clientele and word of worth spread they started doing very well. Good luck man.

[Dizaster]

That's awesome! I am desperate to try making some sort of personal business myself..

Along your lines, I would really like to do massage.. I've always had interest in it, and needing a massage a couple of weeks ago, I rang all the places around in my town, and none of them had a masseur with them anymore.. I had to call one guy who was handling the entire town and was completely booked out...

I guess it would be the same process as what you went through to get in with the gym..

I checked your website out and it's actually pretty good... As good as any of the ones I checked out when looking for a massage...


Shame your not in this country/area otherwise I would have absolutely taken you up on the posture correction... My posture is rubbish and definitely need some work..

Is it like a standard thing for personal trainers to be able to assess and correct posture problems, or is that something you had interest in and learnt extra about?

[BIG H]

Looks really good mate.

Funnily enough the 2 proffesions that I really would like to do are a.) Be a personal trainer & b.) Be a Firefighter.

You can always go into the fireservice and still do the training, as you will be off work for 60% of the week. My mate earsn much more on his days off than he does in the service

[AdamGB]

That's the plan!

[AdamGB]

That's awesome! I am desperate to try making some sort of personal business myself..

Along your lines, I would really like to do massage.. I've always had interest in it, and needing a massage a couple of weeks ago, I rang all the places around in my town, and none of them had a masseur with them anymore.. I had to call one guy who was handling the entire town and was completely booked out...

I guess it would be the same process as what you went through to get in with the gym..

I checked your website out and it's actually pretty good... As good as any of the ones I checked out when looking for a massage...


Shame your not in this country/area otherwise I would have absolutely taken you up on the posture correction... My posture is rubbish and definitely need some work..

Is it like a standard thing for personal trainers to be able to assess and correct posture problems, or is that something you had interest in and learnt extra about?

It should be a standard thing IMO but it's not... big believer in it - better circulation/respiration, less strain on the head and neck muscles and better eye position (so less head aches), less injury and better mechanical function of the skeleton!

I'm also a massive believer in massage mate, if your area is open for it then I'd get into it... in the UK there's a massive surge in alternative therapies, Swedish massage is excellent... you could hardly call it an alternative therapy because it's benefits are scientifically proven but the interest is there and if there's basically an open market for you I'd get into it and get as many clients as you can before everybody else cottons on.

Other than transport costs/oil costs and the initial cost of getting a portable table, I imagine that your outgoings would be nothing compared to your income.

[jamiebhoy]

Nice one mate , the site looks like it's a winner too. If I could offer an opinion it would be that the Home page with the ring may put off some people who may think it looks a bit full on. Having a few friends in the business they have a fair split between "real" training clients and those who have a parsonal trainer coz it looks the part. the latter in that bunch might think it too hard core.

The About Us page really sums up what you are about , really impressed mate hope it goes well.

will you be offering lunck time park sessions ? Know it's harder back home with the weather but there are a few in the parks here at lunch times for the offices workers and some look pretty slack and i am sure they are charging a fair bit for it.

[AdamGB]

Nice one mate , the site looks like it's a winner too. If I could offer an opinion it would be that the Home page with the ring may put off some people who may think it looks a bit full on. Having a few friends in the business they have a fair split between "real" training clients and those who have a parsonal trainer coz it looks the part. the latter in that bunch might think it too hard core.

The About Us page really sums up what you are about , really impressed mate hope it goes well.

will you be offering lunck time park sessions ? Know it's harder back home with the weather but there are a few in the parks here at lunch times for the offices workers and some look pretty slack and i am sure they are charging a fair bit for it.

Thanks mate, what I am planning on doing is having some photographs taken showing the different types of training that I do, I will have a strip of them above the main logo and below it, showing a mix of the more 'hardcore' stuff I do but also 'keep fit stuff' to, should hopefully show that I cater for both.

I also need to get a shot of my ugly self in the about me section!

I'm planning on doing lunch time sessions like that, I live next to a massive office complex, that amongst other things houses the Northern Rock headquarters and god knows how many other businesses so the clients should be there.