Personal Trainer

[MuscleScience]

I actually train personal trainers on both the business aspect and training aspect. My philosophy is simply this. You have to first sell yourself. You have to tell them what to expect, and you have to constantly reenforce how well their progress is going. As a trainer you will not see the day to day changes. Ask them about what others have said about them. Complement them on the objective gains you see such as strenght increase, balance and coordination. Never use negative reenforcement, keep it positive, be a buddy but be stern. Make them feel bad on their own when they dont do what they need to. But dont lecture them. Say things like, you will get there I have no doubt that you will get back on track soon.

Secondly, do not bust thier ass the first week or so. Use the concept of gradual progressive overload. (GPO) Give them a good workout but not sometime that they will get so sore that they cant move. Gradual progress their intensity. In a matter of weeks you can be kicking their butts with out the 3 days of cant move soreness. Lastly, do not put the average client on high risk, high impact, high velocity exercises. No stupid unstable surface jumps, or plyos or extreme jump exercise.

You have to slowly and methodically build up to that. In fact, unless they are a elite level athlete there is no great benefit to put them on jump training or extreme unstable surfaces. Remember, risk versus benefit. I have never hurt a client in 8 plus years. it makes no sense to have a guy that wants to get into shape to be jumping on and off a bosu ball. That is a broken ankle waiting to happen, or stress fracture. Be a professional, use your knowledge and dont be a weird exercise hero. Do this and you will be an awesome trainer.

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I actually train personal trainers on both the business aspect and training aspect. My philosophy is simply this. You have to first sell yourself. You have to tell them what to expect, and you have to constantly reenforce how well their progress is going. As a trainer you will not see the day to day changes. Ask them about what others have said about them. Complement them on the objective gains you see such as strenght increase, balance and coordination. Never use negative reenforcement, keep it positive, be a buddy but be stern. Make them feel bad on their own when they dont do what they need to. But dont lecture them. Say things like, you will get there I have no doubt that you will get back on track soon.

Secondly, do not bust thier ass the first week or so. Use the concept of gradual progressive overload. (GPO) Give them a good workout but not sometime that they will get so sore that they cant move. Gradual progress their intensity. In a matter of weeks you can be kicking their butts with out the 3 days of cant move soreness. Lastly, do not put the average client on high risk, high impact, high velocity exercises. No stupid unstable surface jumps, or plyos or extreme jump exercise.

You have to slowly and methodically build up to that. In fact, unless they are a elite level athlete there is no great benefit to put them on jump training or extreme unstable surfaces. Remember, risk versus benefit. I have never hurt a client in 8 plus years. it makes no sense to have a guy that wants to get into shape to be jumping on and off a bosu ball. That is a broken ankle waiting to happen, or stress fracture. Be a professional, use your knowledge and dont be a weird exercise hero. Do this and you will be an awesome trainer.

bold is ****ing awesome. I never understand why trainers always have people doing the weirdest things they can think of. It's really hard for me to not take their clients. Especially when their clients tell me things like, "I haven't lost any bf or weight, but he really kicks my ass." I hate stuff like that.