Why I SUCK as a personal trainer!!

[NVR2BIG1]

For anyone on here who thinks personal training is a good job consider it carefully. Here has been my experience with it so far; dealing with fat, lazy people who I have to constantly give praise to like dogs, people calling me 10 times a month an hour before training to tell me they're sick, people constantly bitching and whining about "thats too heavy, I cant do that" when they just did the set before 15 reps effortlessly. If your a bodybuilder then chances are your strong willed, and working with people like this may just frustrate the hell out of you. If that is the route you'd like to go, be ****ing smart, stay in school, and go work with a division 1 football team of something. I've been doing this now for the past 8 months, and I really dont like it. I'm working on something else now, hopefully this crap wont last much longer. Thank God its just a BS p/t gig

[OhioMuscle22]

I could only imagine bro. I switch around to different gyms alot, but the one that has personal trainers there, its almost pathetic what the people are doing for "training/working out", And u can still see it in there(people working out) faces they want to bitch about it. Not making fun of anyone but to watch a grown ass man, bench a bar by itself, then do some sort of ab workout with the exercise ball, then get up and look like he got hit by a mac truck. You definetly know he isnt coming back the next day lol.

[boz]

Ahahaha some ppl have no idea what they are getting them selves into.

It's not for the faint hearted. They don't realise.

[spywizard]

that's basically my experience as well, lucky to have some clients that have a need and desire to do what i say.. but now i'm teaching and find that much more enjoyable..

[operationgetbig]

i spent all that money on my nasm certification and i don't even use it for this same reason. i guess i didn't realize it at the time. i'll probably do the continuing ed credits to keep my cert just in case i guess.

[6ft5]

Well I was gona get my nasm cert. Usually just try n keep my buddys motivated. Guess kickn around a bunch of fat old people who happen to get a wild hair up their ass isn't so wonderfull.

[Bossman]

For anyone on here who thinks personal training is a good job consider it carefully. Here has been my experience with it so far; dealing with fat, lazy people who I have to constantly give praise to like dogs, people calling me 10 times a month an hour before training to tell me they're sick, people constantly bitching and whining about "thats too heavy, I cant do that" when they just did the set before 15 reps effortlessly. If your a bodybuilder then chances are your strong willed, and working with people like this may just frustrate the hell out of you. If that is the route you'd like to go, be ****ing smart, stay in school, and go work with a division 1 football team of something. I've been doing this now for the past 8 months, and I really dont like it. I'm working on something else now, hopefully this crap wont last much longer. Thank God its just a BS p/t gig

Do you get a chance to work with any competitors or anyone that is serious?

I can understand your frustration. The trainers I see look like they're going through the motions with people that never seem to change.

[Nooomoto]

Same shit happened to me. I'm not a body builder but I'm an athlete/power lifter (for sport). I tried being a trainer for a while and I couldn't deal with it. The same people would constantly wanna challenge me on the same shit. "No, you WILL NOT GET BIG OFF OF SALADS!!"

They'd ask how to get strong like me, I tell them...they don't wanna hear it. Excuses and reasons to not do everything under the sun. On top of that, it's more sales than anything else, and I am certainly not a salesman.

I lost count of how many times I had to convince people that taking protein powders is ok and is not going to give you cancer (who the fk is telling people this?)

Ridiculous.

[Dreamin Big]

Wow, sorry to hear. I have been training now for about 5 years and I love it. Getting started with a client base is always slow at the beginning. Once I had my face out there and people start to see me and my style of training, I had more sign-ups. Then you are able to pass off those that don't want to be there. I would say stick with it. Make it more than just exercise, get to know the person. This will make it more enjoyable for them, and make it easier for them to come back. Good luck either way.

[Bossman]

Same shit happened to me. I'm not a body builder but I'm an athlete/power lifter (for sport). I tried being a trainer for a while and I couldn't deal with it. The same people would constantly wanna challenge me on the same shit. "No, you WILL NOT GET BIG OFF OF SALADS!!"

They'd ask how to get strong like me, I tell them...they don't wanna hear it. Excuses and reasons to not do everything under the sun. On top of that, it's more sales than anything else, and I am certainly not a salesman.

I lost count of how many times I had to convince people that taking protein powders is ok and is not going to give you cancer (who the fk is telling people this?)

Ridiculous.

My DR told me not to take protein for long. Hard on the kidneys and liver. Then he asked me if I had gone "Barry Bonds" on him. I told him, no. My growth is from creatine, protein, vitamins and hard training. I tell my sports Dr everything though.