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Acting is definitely not for me and I am not good looking enough for modelling. Personal trainer is actually a very good idea, and sports medicine has always be

Acting is definitely not for me and I am not good looking enough for modelling. Personal trainer is actually a very good idea, and sports medicine has always been one of my interests. I am sceptical that this makes sense financially, but it sounds like a job that can be started gradually without needing to make a hard cut from my current job. Interesting, I will think about it more.

thereddestruby 16y ago
Read up on Ross Emanait. He has a steady gig training athletes in strength and conditioning. Boxing, and stuff like that. Seems to work as if he was a consultant.
dkarl 16y ago
If you want to compete on knowledge, you'll have to look for a professionally-run organization such as a medical rehab clinic or a college sports program, which will probably require some kind of professional training or certification, maybe even a relevant degree. Without those, you'll be starting at the bottom. However, you'll be in a truly professional environment where you can develop expertise and work into a specialty. In personal training, one-on-one in a gym, you need absolutely no training, certification, or even knowledge to get started. It's a bad situation from the consumer's point of view, which I imagine means a bad situation from the point of view of competent, knowledgeable trainers: http://www.stumptuous.com/how-to-choose-a-personal-trainer http://www.stumptuous.com/how-to-choose-a-personal-trainer Many trainers are fly-by-night, students trying to make an extra buck, people filling time till they get a “real” job. There’s nothing wrong with working part time as a trainer but often it results in people with minimal hands-on experience. If possible, find someone who has experience working with various types of people, and if you get really lucky, someone who has powerlifting or Olympic lifting experience. The trainer I use now works at a small gym (where I pay $10 per month), charges $25 per hour, and gives me competent coaching on all the lifts I want to do, including powerlifting and Olympic lifts. He has a sports training degree and experience both as a high-level high school athlete at a school with a very sophisticated training program and also as an assistant trainer with a Division I college sports program. That gives him no economic advantage over the Brad-Pitt-in-Burn-After-Reading type trainers. If you go to a fancy gym and hire a no-nothing bimbo or himbo to train you, odds are they'll charge a lot more. Knowledge and enthusiasm for the job are cheap. If you want to make money in personal training, you have to sell yourself on the other factors: looks, rapport, motivational skill, etc. P.S. Make sure you check out the sample job listing at the end of the post I linked above.
- dotcoma 16y ago
  >someone who has powerlifting or Olympic lifting experience why are you implying that personal training has to be weight lifting? I personally find weight lifting stupid, useless and boring, not to mention that it's not the right way to work on the body I have and for the body I want to have. Just my 2 cents.

thereddestruby 16y ago

Read up on Ross Emanait. He has a steady gig training athletes in strength and conditioning. Boxing, and stuff like that. Seems to work as if he was a consultant.

dkarl 16y ago

If you want to compete on knowledge, you'll have to look for a professionally-run organization such as a medical rehab clinic or a college sports program, which will probably require some kind of professional training or certification, maybe even a relevant degree. Without those, you'll be starting at the bottom. However, you'll be in a truly professional environment where you can develop expertise and work into a specialty. In personal training, one-on-one in a gym, you need absolutely no training, certification, or even knowledge to get started. It's a bad situation from the consumer's point of view, which I imagine means a bad situation from the point of view of competent, knowledgeable trainers: http://www.stumptuous.com/how-to-choose-a-personal-trainer http://www.stumptuous.com/how-to-choose-a-personal-trainer Many trainers are fly-by-night, students trying to make an extra buck, people filling time till they get a “real” job. There’s nothing wrong with working part time as a trainer but often it results in people with minimal hands-on experience. If possible, find someone who has experience working with various types of people, and if you get really lucky, someone who has powerlifting or Olympic lifting experience. The trainer I use now works at a small gym (where I pay $10 per month), charges $25 per hour, and gives me competent coaching on all the lifts I want to do, including powerlifting and Olympic lifts. He has a sports training degree and experience both as a high-level high school athlete at a school with a very sophisticated training program and also as an assistant trainer with a Division I college sports program. That gives him no economic advantage over the Brad-Pitt-in-Burn-After-Reading type trainers. If you go to a fancy gym and hire a no-nothing bimbo or himbo to train you, odds are they'll charge a lot more. Knowledge and enthusiasm for the job are cheap. If you want to make money in personal training, you have to sell yourself on the other factors: looks, rapport, motivational skill, etc. P.S. Make sure you check out the sample job listing at the end of the post I linked above.

dotcoma 16y ago
>someone who has powerlifting or Olympic lifting experience why are you implying that personal training has to be weight lifting? I personally find weight lifting stupid, useless and boring, not to mention that it's not the right way to work on the body I have and for the body I want to have. Just my 2 cents.