Online Class: Personal Trainer 101
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12Lessons
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16Exams &
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53Students
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7Hours
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0.7CEUs
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Video Audit
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Course Description
Embarking on a Transformative Journey: From Fitness Enthusiast to Professional Personal Trainer
Dive deep into one of the world's most exhilarating and dynamic professions – personal training. As the global consciousness shifts towards healthier lifestyles, personal training stands as a beacon, offering a potent blend of wellness, entrepreneurship, and transformative change. Not only does it present an avenue for holistic well-being but it also promises versatility that very few professions can rival. Whether you envision a bustling fitness studio, an intimate boutique, or personalized sessions under open skies, personal training molds itself to realize your dream.
Our meticulously designed course offers more than just knowledge – it is a launchpad for success. The journey begins with crafting your unique blueprint for success: your personal business plan. With expert guidance at every step, you'll dive deep into the intricate facets of setting up your venture, from crystallizing your goals to fostering client relationships, from expanding your reach to orchestrating a well-oiled operational flow.
The course's immersive assignments will challenge and inspire, transforming theoretical knowledge into actionable strategies. Create comprehensive workflow charts, delve into the best practices that underpin successful enterprises, and tailor-fit training programs to meet the diverse needs of clients.
Understanding the nuances of client communication will be pivotal. Discover the art of empathetic communication, ensuring you can not only ascertain but also resonate with your clients' aspirations and objectives. Whether it's designing regimes for spirited teenagers or gentle exercises for the elderly, mastering this art is crucial.
The crescendo of this course is its roadmap to accreditation and beyond. As you navigate through the steps, absorbing insights and honing skills, a clear vision for your future will emerge. The finale is not just the end of a course but the beginning of a fulfilling career, equipped with a robust plan that's primed for success.
Join us, and let's craft your future together. Revel in the satisfaction that comes from transforming lives, including your own, while achieving unparalleled professional growth in the world of personal training. The horizon is vast, and the opportunities, boundless.
Course Lessons
Lesson 1: Skills, Requirements, and Certifications
This first lesson will provide on overview of this career. In this first lesson, you will focus on your goals, wants and needs, skills, and motivation.Lesson 2: Setting Up Shop - Equipment, Space, and Money
This lesson will discuss tools such as equipment needs, space requirements, and financial factors that must be considered.Lesson 3: Setting Goals or Simply Wishing
In this lesson, the focus will be on goals for your career as a professional personal trainer, but it is a great thing to keep a developmental goal journal for everything because you will achieve more of what you want to do in life, as opposed to just sitting back and waiting for them to happen.Lesson 4: The Business Plan
This lesson will take you through the steps of beginning a business as your own boss, as a part-time freelancing trainer on the side, or as you retain employment with an established fitness center.Lesson 5: Sound Business Practices and Business Models
In this lesson, you will learn about franchising, opening your own exercise studio, and freelancing.Lesson 6: Growing, Marketing, and Retaining Clients
Clients are your gold. In fact, the greatest amount of time spent in this job of personal training is getting the client, so retaining those you have is very important.Lesson 7: Hiring the Right People
In this business, the staff have to be able to talk to people, show respect to everyone, and find ways to resolve issues. A good people person always can learn the skills, but a person who has skills without being able to work well with others will be a problem.Lesson 8: Documentation of Workflow
Workflow is a set of processes, rules, or steps that direct, organize, and moves the production of the service or product. How a product goes from start to finish in the production line must be specific, reviewed routinely, and improved as automation and technology is improved as changes need to be made and to increase profitability.Lesson 9: The Client - Needs, Wants, Goals, Interaction, Expectations, and Retention
In this lesson, you will learn how to pay attention to the community and who lives there because that is your customer base.Lesson 10: Designing a Program and Teaching Strategies
One of the important parts of being a personal training instructor is knowing how to develop exercises and how to build a program for many different individuals. But also important is the need to understand teaching techniques and how those can vary from one age level to another.Lesson 11. Keeping It Fresh, Fun, and Moving Forward
This lesson will go over strategies to implement to keep this job continually moving forward.Lesson 12: Maintaining a Work-Life Balance
Like many doctors who fail to take care of their own health, don't be the personal trainer who fails to stay healthy, fit, and seek wellness in mind and spirit, body, and relationships.
Learning Outcomes
- Define what a personal trainer is and the skills, requirements, and certifications you'll need to get started.
- Define the business plan.
- Describe sound business practices and business models.
- Summarize growing, marketing and retaining clients.
- Describe documentation of work flow.
- Identify the client for your services.
- Summarize designing a program and teaching strategies.
- Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
Additional Course Information
- Document Your Lifelong Learning Achievements
- Earn an Official Certificate Documenting Course Hours and CEUs
- Verify Your Certificate with a Unique Serial Number Online
- View and Share Your Certificate Online or Download/Print as PDF
- Display Your Certificate on Your Resume and Promote Your Achievements Using Social Media
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