Anyone provide insight to best companies to go through for personal trianing certifications?
[quote]triplerakes_77 wrote:
Anyone provide insight to best companies to go through for personal trianing certifications?[/quote]
Do you like sales… consider yourself a good salesman?
Making a living as a personal trainer is mostly about being a top-notch salesman.
Whatever certification you get is (almost) irrelevant.
[quote]ranengin wrote:
[quote]triplerakes_77 wrote:
Anyone provide insight to best companies to go through for personal trianing certifications?[/quote]
Do you like sales… consider yourself a good salesman?
Making a living as a personal trainer is mostly about being a top-notch salesman.
Whatever certification you get is (almost) irrelevant. [/quote]
I agree with this, sadly…
that said, what population do you want to work with and where do you want to work?
check out www.NSCA-lift.org If I was beginning again in my career that’s who I would go with… any gym will accept them and depending upon your education and who you want to work with they have a reuglar cert and one for more S&C
Good to know! Are there are particulars with these programs? If doing at home at my own pace?
I kindly disagree with the 2 above posters to a point and that is in a Large chain-type club like Lifetime then yes being a salesman is mandatory in the beginning.
When you have more time in job it is client retention that is important and that is done through getting results therefore meaning re-signs and word of mouth does way more than smoke & mirrors sales.
If someone was asking me I would tell them to work at one of the large chains for one year then branch off to where you want to go.
Rick