Fitness. Health.
Personal Training.
At the end of the day, you’re just talking to people. You give instructions, you demonstrate exercises, you listen, you laugh, you guide with body language, you give verbal cues, you give some high-fives and then you go home. A great personal trainer is a great communicator.
The ability to look and see what is there seems easy and commonplace. You’d be amazed at the number of things that people don’t see. Good personal fitness trainers miss nothing.
While we do live in a very, very free world, there are some standards you should maintain to be seen as a health professional.
Personal Fitness Trainers need to be able to be found. With a website, you guide potential clients through an introduction to you, your education and your happy clients.
You rarely encounter people who are “on the fence” about CrossFit. They hate it or they love it. Any time there is such a strong polarity in opinion, you can bet there is a story to tell.
Every fitness trainer will be asked to give diet advice multiple times per day. And on top of that, full dietary guidelines need to be prescribed for clients seeking big changes in their bodies. Here are the major points that need to be covered.
There are key points that need to be kept in mind when training obese people. Or, if you’re obese, this is how to train yourself. There are certain protocols to follow. It’s not complex.
One thing I had to learn on my own was the boundaries of my scope of practice. You will have to learn them yourself, but here are some things to think about so that you notice when you’re approaching the boundaries of that scope.