For trainers, aspiring trainers, and anyone working in fitness professionally>Getting certified (NASM/ISSA/ACSM worth it?)>First job: commercial gym vs private studio vs online coaching>How to actually get clients (not just sit on the floor all shift)>Programming for gen pop vs athletes vs fat loss clients>Dealing with difficult/low-compliance clients>Pricing / packages / retention strategies>Online coaching (worth it or oversaturated?)>Social media marketing vs word of mouth>Liability / insurance / taxes / side hustle full time transitionQuestions:How did you get your FIRST paying client?What mistakes did you make early on?Best way to stand out in a saturated market?Is in-person training dying or still king?What certs/skills actually matter vs meme credentials?Drop experience, advice, rants, success/failure stories.
>>77168450>Drop experience, advice, rants, success/failure stories.Feel free to start. (You) won't.
>>77168450I want to open my own gym in the future. I still have to study personal trainer, but I have an Idea of what I want my gym to be like:>Aimed for bodybuilding and strengh conditioning.>Lots of free weights, machines, sleds, rocks, logs, truck tyres, axles.>Mirrors and bodybuilder wallpapers.>Screaming allowed.>Music will mainly be heavy metal and rock.>2 competitios per year, one every three months, winner gets a free year.>Minors enter free if they come with an adult (promote lifting to younger generatios)>Two week free trian to see if my gym fits you.Lifting is my passion, so I would like a place for people who enjoy lifting heavy just for the sake of it.
>>77168473zyzz posters?
>>77168474Zyzz included, among other great ones
>>77168473The problem with this is unless you live in a big city the bulk of your gym clientele is going to be 60+ folks looking to stay fit and people doing cardio.
>>77168473you'll go bankrupt in 2 months
>>77168473I know you're a /g/roomer, so that checks out.Although this seems like a fun idea, your gym won't last. Normies and the fucks that pay for a membership but never show subsidize it for real lifters.You either have to charge 100-200$ a month to those that show, or charge 15$ to everyone, make the gym very approachable and bet on nobody coming. You have an idea to make a gym that appeals to a niche, and broke few. It won't last.
>>77168565>100-200$>15$
>>77168539 #>>77168545 #I know that it will most likely fail. Despite this Im determined to try. I see a small chance it might be a hit, and since it is a dream of mine, might as well try.>>77168565 #What is /g/roomer? I have no idea about that, i've never been there.Any other ideas for it? What would your gym be like if you could open one?
>>77168539Not the OP, but this seems like outdated thinking. Strength training is more popular than ever now. My gym, for example, is a barbell club that scales from normies to competitive strongmen. It’s a pretty good age distribution, skewing younger, and in a small midwestern city.
>>77168807Make something that aesthetically looks like a crossfit gym, and keep it small. I guess it also depends on your location and goals. Two times I've been to small towns for work or vacation, and I'd get a temporary membership to a gym. Despite being two gyms/towns that were 1500km apart, the look and story was identical. They were gyms set up in towns that don't have a gym, and some guy wanted a gym, so he got a small loan and set up a gym for himself, and opened it up to the public and since they were the only gym, people came. Then it was a simple exercise in upping the price until their capacity was maxed out, and not making it too cheap and being over capacity. They both surprisingly weren't even staffed. Owner would pass by once and a while and clean up. They both had a system where on your first day after signing up online, you'd book an appointment with the guy, get a scanning tag thing for the door, get a tour, and just go lift. Open 24hrs, costs were space rental, heating/power/internet, and the gyms were old-ish so all the kit which must of cost like 20-50k max was already amortized and paid off.
I go to planet fitness and its gotta be like 70 percent AARP members. Pretty sure them and crunch fitness and all the other chains are getting all the price sensitive gym goers. Everyone else should be charging high prices, offering dope services, worrying about the culture of your gym, and just finding a way to get people who truly will be passionate and loyal about your niche.
>>77170963Crunch is $50 where I live
>>77168453Because it's a kekke spam. He loves to start generals. He used to ai to write the opening post.
>>77170989by high prices I mean 150$ plus because everyone who is price sensitive is already going to planet fitness or whatever
Ok let’s say I do the nasm. Finish it in a couple months. What’s my pay right out? I have a good body and health but very autistic idk if I have the charisma or drive to keep up consistently w clientsIf I can’t get a job at a random gym being the trainer on duty for 30$ an hour then I’ll just apply for buxx
>>77171003>150$
>>77171049>30$
>>77171056Fuck this nigger world
>>77170940That sounds like something I would like, but where I live I would have things stolen from my gym. My idea is to be there all the time or have a staff to take care of things while im not there. But in the beginig I guess I will have to do all the work, which is fine because I enjoy spending time at gyms.Thanks for the insight
Going to get a CSCS for fun. Don't think I will train anyone. Its a short multiple choice test and I want more information than I can get off YouTube.
>apply at YMCA for trainer position>won't let me train because my cert expired>$1000 to retake the course and recertifyIdk what to do Bros. They offer an in house cert for group training, and that's about $18/hr, but I'll be stuck working front desk until then, and that's only $11/hr. Leaning towards just sticking it out at the Y for the benefits package and then train at another gym independently, but regardless it looks like I'm keeping my construction job for a bit longer.>>77171049>$30Lol, lmao even. Most I ever made training was $20/hr at Anytime Fitness, and that was for group training. One on one training was $15/hr. From what I can tell, you're not breaking $20/hr unless you go independent.
>>77168473i call it guy heaven
>>77168450There is literally no point to getting the certification unless you want to be an employee at someone else’s gym (pro-tip: you don’t). Just do freelance work, make your own website, and get started. I have been training other people in gyms for 4 years and only once has an owner approached me scolded me for training in his gym without permission.
>>77171050I am a white american actually. I always use the dollar sign behind the number as I do with any other situation with a number and a unit. Putting the dollar sign first is fucking retarded
