Maybe you are wondering if you want to apply for a Personal Trainer job but you are not sure if you are qualified.
There are lots of gyms, health, and fitness club needing a personal trainer for their clients. Most of the gyms right now are struggling with their client for minimal support of a personal trainer because the ratio is 1:10 gym clients per hour. This article will help you in how to become a personal trainer.
1. Have a high school deploma
Most certification programs only require a high school diploma.
2. AED/CPR Certification
Personal trainers must complete cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) certification programs. These programs teach trainers how to help a client in a medical emergency until a medical professional arrives.
3. Be fit.
First of all, you must be well-fitted. You regularly do your exercise to tone your muscles to make you one of the sexiest individuals, particularly in your community.
4. Get a certification
Then, you study hard as well as work hard to be a certified personal trainer. If possible, get your personal training certification to the well-known personal training association or organization that gives certification such as the International Association of Strength and Conditioning (IASC).
5. Apply for jobs and build a portfolio
You have to prepare your resume as prescribed by all the personal trainers’ associations in hiring a personal trainer. But before typing any letter in your personal training curriculum vitae in front of the computer, you have to come up with what are the main topics to enter in your submission.
The following topics are:
- Your Goals and Objectives;
- Your Experiences;
- Your Certifications;
- Your Training and Workshops;
- Your Education;
- Your Achievements; and
- Your Other Skills.
Then, if you already polished your personal training curriculum vitae, you are now ready to submit it. But before that, make sure that you don’t have any typographical errors or the worse is you have grammatical errors. You have to read at least twice on every page. Check also your margin on each side—One inch by one inch on all sides. Then you have to print it in a legal size white bond paper. Warning: no extra colored papers just like the other woman did.
You are now applying like a fashion model. Make sure also that whatever you put in your curriculum vitae, you memorized it because most of the
interviewers ask their interviewees depending on what is written in the vitae. To add more first impression in your interviewer, you have to spray for a gentle perfume or cologne. Even though you are applying as a personal trainer, you have to hand over your curriculum vitae in a formal dress but you have to bring with you extra fitness attire in case they want you to train and observe you how to train your prospective clients inside the gym.
Now, I’m sure, you are ready to go to a health and fitness gym to apply as a Personal Trainer.
But in case you are applying as a Freelance Personal Trainer, make sure that you create your own network that will help you to market yourself. If possible, you can make a website about your fitness services which includes personal training at home with discounts on most of your services. If you found one prospective client, don’t ever mention first about your payment scheme.
You have to introduce first all your services then your education, training, and certification, and wait for your client to ask about your payment scheme. And if your client is not happy with your scheme, try to lower your price and give them a discount.
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