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Going into my 18th year in the fitness industry, one of my biggest challenges has been fighting the various stereotypes of the personal trainer. The perpetual stereotype of the trainer in films and on television wearing inappropriate clothing, having a weak knowledge base, flirting with clients, shouting orders and behaving unprofessionally unfortunately still exists. I meet this challenge head-on by behaving as a professional consistently and in every sense of the word. Professional behavior includes reinforcing my business structure (hours, compensation, policies), being punctual, maintaining appropriate records, returning phone calls and e-mails in a timely manner, regularly attending continuing education courses, becoming thoroughly versed in the most recent research and getting my clients results. My mission remains to legitimize professional fitness training as a long-term and rewarding career choice. I am in this unique field of study that allows us to directly and positively impact clients' lives! I don't take this opportunity for granted; instead, I focus on providing top-notch customer service, science-based fun and challenging fitness training. I am a full-time professional fitness trainer by trade-and proud of it!
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My Biggest challege is in marketing my business. As a FiTour Pro-Trainer and AFAA CEU Provider, Holistic Nutritionist and Personal Trainer, it's challenging to find a location to host a workshop, especially during key times on Fridays/Saturdays/Sundays.
When you have so many wonderful opportunities coming toward you that can sky-rocket your career, it becomes more and more challenging to focus and get everything done within a timely manner.
What I need is an assistant but in the mean time I must learn how to focus and prioritize on what must be done, versus what I feel like doing. Business...its work in progress!
When you have so many wonderful opportunities coming toward you that can sky-rocket your career, it becomes more and more challenging to focus and get everything done within a timely manner.
What I need is an assistant but in the mean time I must learn how to focus and prioritize on what must be done, versus what I feel like doing. Business...its work in progress!
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Early in my career I was all over the place with the type of clients I wanted to reach. Clients ranged from young athletes who wanted to improve their running time to 90-year-olds who desired to move around the house more easily. I found myself good at working with many types of clients, but not great at helping any one type. Although our businesses do cater to many different demographics, I discovered that my "sweet spot" client is the mature adult who wants therapeutic and functional exercise. Working with this clientele challenges my mind. I receive great pleasure when clients tell me how much more easily they climbed out of their cars or were able to catch themselves when they slipped! I feel like I have a much greater impact on the life and well-being of this group than I do on other demographics. Now, at this point in my career (four facilities, 60 employees), the challenge has become finding time for me and my family, leaving work at work and not bringing home the day-to-day stress. When your business is open 7 days a week, you co-own your business with your wife and you are passionate about what you do, it is difficult to put down your work and find time to exercise or to take a weekend off for your family. Most weeks fly by in a blink, and I wonder how they passed so quickly. I truly feel lucky for what we have accomplished with the great team we have in place, but can't help but wonder if the work-life-health balance can be accomplished at a breakneck pace! To help me find balance, I joined Entrepreneurs' Organization, so I can discuss issues with others who have experienced life challenges similar to my own. I try to leave my computer at the office as much as possible and stop answering my phone once I am home.
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My biggest challenge is finding the right trainers to work with me. It is hard to find qualified trainers who are willing to train some of the clientele that I have (the morbidly obese). Some of my clients require a lot of motivation, and not every trainer is a motivator. I would rather have trainers who are recently certified so that I can train them in the way my business, Fitting Fitness In™, works with clients. It is easier to work with trainers who have not already put in place their procedures and ways of doing things, because there is less of a learning curve in getting them to follow our procedures. I look for trainers who have busy lives and know how hard it is to fit fitness in. My clients can better relate to these trainers. How do I meet the challenge of finding trainers? I tell everyone I talk to that I am looking for trainers. I found my last trainer by talking to the electrician who was working on my house. I told him that I was looking for trainers. He told me his sister just went through a weekend course and was studying for the certification exam. I gave him some information to give her, and she called me the next day. It was a few months before she took and passed the exam, but once she got her certification she came to work for me. She has been an excellent hire. I belong to a BNI (Business Networking International) networking group and I announce in our meetings that I am looking for trainers. Posting on websites of various certification companies and organizations like IDEA helps me find good trainers, as well. A new idea I received from Phil Kaplan during one of our Be Better Project teleconferences is to print help-wanted ad business cards and hand them out. This strategy has worked well because it gives people something to hand to a prospective trainer that is more than a business card. The card details what I am looking for, so only people who are interested contact me. I have been getting great response from these cards. It seems like I need to interview 5-10 candidates to get a trainer who is the right fit. However, finding that person makes a huge difference in my business.
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My biggest challenge at this point in my career is ensuring that I can continue providing quality service to my loyal clientele while creating space in my schedule for other interests and opportunities. Recently a wonderful opportunity with Canadian Sport Centre Pacific/PacificSport opened up for me. The position is a part-time contract for the next year. It allows me to help supply resources and support to high-performance athletes and coaches-especially with the 2010 Winter Olympics [in British Columbia] around the corner. In order to take the new job, I needed to rework my schedule and tweak my training business. Ultimately, I made the decision not to take on any new clientele, to focus solely on maintaining the loyalty of long-time regulars and to limit group fitness offerings to two classes per week and find a simpler way to operate the classes. Now my schedule is set for 31/2 days of the week with the new job. My regular clients have adapted to fit into the available appointment slots around those days. I offered clients who lost one training session a week the challenge of following a workout on their own at home. I catch up with them via e-mail or phone before their next face-to-face meeting to see how everything has gone and to determine what adjustments need to be made-if any-for the following workouts. The logistics of my fitness classes have been easier since I became an employee of the local fitness centre. Someone else advertises the classes and registers clients, and I can focus purely on teaching the classes. While this change may seem to some people like a step back from working on my own, it has provided a refreshing respite for me. Restructuring my schedule certainly hasn't all been smooth; a few regular clients couldn't make the change with me, and I miss them. And for the meantime, as I catch up with my own business and climb the learning curve of the new position, my life seems more hectic than ever before. Overall, though, the effort it has taken to accept the challenge of a new and exciting job and make it work with the best parts of my personal training business is worth it. At the end of the yearlong contract, who knows what will happen and what other opportunities may open up? But no matter what they are, I know there is always a way to make things work-especially if you really want to make the changes happen.
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Its an ongoing challenge to fill in schedule gaps when they arise unexpectedly. Be it a nap, a phone call, or just a walk around town - you have to know yourself well enough to use the free time that comes up last minute, or know who to call to fill the spots. I am always getting better at this and also learning more to have faith that when a client moves out of town or changes their schedule and cannot see me anymore that someone else will come along. You have to be positive and mentally strong to have a happy career. Which I am proud to say I do! I enjoy the challenges.
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At the present, it is finding a Certified Diabetes Educator who can mentor me. I have much interest in the diabetes population and would like to take the Certified Diabetes Educatator exam. I am unable to take the exam without having 1000 documented hours working with diabetic utilizing the American Association of Diabetic Educators protocol.
I have every confidence that I will achieve this.
I have every confidence that I will achieve this.
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Right now, it's having the time to devote to my career! I have two young children (3 and 5.5 years) and the bulk of my time is devoted to them (and my husband:). As usual, life will continue to evolve, and in a couple of years I'll have more time available to work since the kids will be in school full-time. And then I'll move on to other challenges...
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For me it is relocating to a new area and starting over! It is proving difficult to get my foot in the door and getting a client base. Also a big part of it too is that my time is limited as I have 4 kids and can not work in the evenings (that seems to be the prime time to work!!!).
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knowing enough...the more I learn the more I know that I don't know enough. furthering my education was my biggest obstacle. I started back to college after realizing this and it was the single biggest choice of my career...and the best choice that I have made.
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Hi Sandy. I don't know if this is my BIGGEST challenge, but a big one is definitely staying abreast of the latest research and trends in training. Things change so rapidly in our industry that keeping up can be difficult. That being said, a 'companion challenge' is discerning good information from bad; useful information from junk. To me, this is the true skill of a trainer when it comes to information gathering in our industry.
LaRue, CSCS
www.lecfitness.com
larue.cook@lecfitness.com
LaRue, CSCS
www.lecfitness.com
larue.cook@lecfitness.com
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/Agree with most of the above.
1. I especially liked LaRue's point- keeping up with education is tough especially when you have to sift out the crummy information that is flooding the fitness market.
2. Peoples ideas of what a personal trainer is. Often mistaken as a fitness enthusiast over fitness professional- lots of people thinking that we will push them to failure while screaming their ears off in a bootcamp style.
1. I especially liked LaRue's point- keeping up with education is tough especially when you have to sift out the crummy information that is flooding the fitness market.
2. Peoples ideas of what a personal trainer is. Often mistaken as a fitness enthusiast over fitness professional- lots of people thinking that we will push them to failure while screaming their ears off in a bootcamp style.
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Trying to keep up with all the new information coming out and to figure out which one is worth studying more that another. Also, let people know what personal training is and why they need personal trainers.
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One challenge is helping the client understand what their body is doing when they are exercising. Sometimes there is a lot going on and it takes a while to get it, but they always do. I guess it's one of my favorite parts as well.
Live Good,
Mac Dodds
LiveGoodFitness.com
Live Good,
Mac Dodds
LiveGoodFitness.com
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Since relocating to a new area, it is getting my business out there to potential clients and building a rapport with them, while also working with the client base I have now. I am finding that around here it is who you know that helps the most.
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Also, there is so much that I want to do, and learn, and try, and teach. The more I learn, the more I realize that there's so much more to learn. I'm like a kid in a candy store. So, focusing on one or two modalities at a time is a challenge for me.
Just finishing up my 200 hour yoga certification and looking for my next big training - KMI? MELT? So many choices!
Just finishing up my 200 hour yoga certification and looking for my next big training - KMI? MELT? So many choices!
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It took me a long time to learn how to say "no". It is still a challenge. I have been withholding giving an answer to requests until I have time to think the request over and really look at my calendar.
I also work with a lot of clients that have very debilitating issues. My days can be a real roller coaster ride of highs and lows. A client can come in and have an excellent experience or break through moment. There is a big spike in good emotions and brain chemistry. The next client may come in and report having had fall or other set back. Their emotions can overflow onto me sometimes. And it isn't easy to keep a positive mindset in those moments. I try to keep the good things in my mind and not let the hard moments linger too much. Some days I am mentally just cooked. I find that getting in a good workout for myself helps a lot. And I often am able to think through possible solutions and program changes for those clients while I am exercising. But sometimes I just let my mind go blank and hammer out a workout. It can really be cleansing
I also work with a lot of clients that have very debilitating issues. My days can be a real roller coaster ride of highs and lows. A client can come in and have an excellent experience or break through moment. There is a big spike in good emotions and brain chemistry. The next client may come in and report having had fall or other set back. Their emotions can overflow onto me sometimes. And it isn't easy to keep a positive mindset in those moments. I try to keep the good things in my mind and not let the hard moments linger too much. Some days I am mentally just cooked. I find that getting in a good workout for myself helps a lot. And I often am able to think through possible solutions and program changes for those clients while I am exercising. But sometimes I just let my mind go blank and hammer out a workout. It can really be cleansing
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Great answers. I enjoyed them all. For me, it's time. With all of the enterprises I'm involved in sometimes it's a challenge to get a mutually compatible appointment. We always try to work it out. An hour intervened can usually be accomplished.
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The biggest challenge I have found over my 6 years is loss of income due to days off. Whether its sick days, funeral, holiday or just a day off I am losing money. You can prepare and save for that time off, but its savings and hard work that could be used for other purposes. We don't get the luxury of annual leave and sick leave. It takes its toll in the long run.
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In the beginning, I don't have any idea how to do proper exercise but during my initial training I have learned lots of new things and after few years I have got lots of new experience and convert into new Internee and that time I feel now this is a time how to guide your students that was a good achievement for me.
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