I'll just give you my thoughts on personal training from my own experiences.
Benefits --
- Awesome way to develop sales experience.
- Awesome way to learn customer service (the majority of your money will come from repeat business).
- Awesome way to build trust in yourself. If you don't perform, hustle whatever you want to call it, you don't make any money.
- Most overlooked benefit, networking (speaking in terms of your clients). Wall street and lawyers are the bulk of my clientele. I train at a hedge fund that has a fully equipped gym. Other clients are high net worth individuals or at least people who are financially successful especially relative to the gen pop. You have to be doing pretty well to spend upwards of 10k/year on a trainer. I have clients who drop more than that. My oldest clients have been with me for 3 years. At $90-$110/session, seeing someone every week often several times turns into some great business from just a few customers.
Downsides --
- Hard to scale. I have too much business. I also don't have anyone I trust enough to take customers on for me. My hours are spread thin.
- Large sum of capital needed to actually open a gym/pt studio and manage trainers.
- Trading your time for money.
Has it been worth it? Yes.
Besides the benefits I listed above I was also able to enter into an industry that I truly think I can improve with my ideas and have those ideas currently being created.
I have also met the most successful people i've ever gotten the chance to meet. It's like I have 20 mentors and they're all my clients because our relationships have grown into more than just trainer/client. I have become friends with everyone I worked with for a long time.
I have several clients that are self made millionaires. Another who is young 30s who went from building and online business in his apartment at 26 to now being the second biggest publication in his niche.
Needless to say the wisdom I have been able to gain from these people and the potential to do other business with them down the line or have help getting investments in future ventures from them or their friends...It's been worth it.
Why am I looking to move on soon?
My quality of life needs improvement.
I want to do everything in my power, even if I come up short, to qualify for Crossfit regionals and then the games. My body is tired and my schedule leaves little time for rest.
I want to pursue software development and spend my free time self teaching myself ruby on rails with intentions of going to code school and then getting into tech for my own business ventures.
PT is cutting into my time and energy. My first clients are at 6 am and the last finish either 830 or 930pm. My afternoons are free, but that doesn't mean I'm not drained.
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If you're in NYC and want to work for someone on a per need basis that gets referral requests every few weeks for training. Let me know, we can maybe work out an arrangement.
Benefits --
- Awesome way to develop sales experience.
- Awesome way to learn customer service (the majority of your money will come from repeat business).
- Awesome way to build trust in yourself. If you don't perform, hustle whatever you want to call it, you don't make any money.
- Most overlooked benefit, networking (speaking in terms of your clients). Wall street and lawyers are the bulk of my clientele. I train at a hedge fund that has a fully equipped gym. Other clients are high net worth individuals or at least people who are financially successful especially relative to the gen pop. You have to be doing pretty well to spend upwards of 10k/year on a trainer. I have clients who drop more than that. My oldest clients have been with me for 3 years. At $90-$110/session, seeing someone every week often several times turns into some great business from just a few customers.
Downsides --
- Hard to scale. I have too much business. I also don't have anyone I trust enough to take customers on for me. My hours are spread thin.
- Large sum of capital needed to actually open a gym/pt studio and manage trainers.
- Trading your time for money.
Has it been worth it? Yes.
Besides the benefits I listed above I was also able to enter into an industry that I truly think I can improve with my ideas and have those ideas currently being created.
I have also met the most successful people i've ever gotten the chance to meet. It's like I have 20 mentors and they're all my clients because our relationships have grown into more than just trainer/client. I have become friends with everyone I worked with for a long time.
I have several clients that are self made millionaires. Another who is young 30s who went from building and online business in his apartment at 26 to now being the second biggest publication in his niche.
Needless to say the wisdom I have been able to gain from these people and the potential to do other business with them down the line or have help getting investments in future ventures from them or their friends...It's been worth it.
Why am I looking to move on soon?
My quality of life needs improvement.
I want to do everything in my power, even if I come up short, to qualify for Crossfit regionals and then the games. My body is tired and my schedule leaves little time for rest.
I want to pursue software development and spend my free time self teaching myself ruby on rails with intentions of going to code school and then getting into tech for my own business ventures.
PT is cutting into my time and energy. My first clients are at 6 am and the last finish either 830 or 930pm. My afternoons are free, but that doesn't mean I'm not drained.
--
If you're in NYC and want to work for someone on a per need basis that gets referral requests every few weeks for training. Let me know, we can maybe work out an arrangement.