Working out with clients at their own gyms? - Personal Trainer Community - Forum

[deryk]

Hello All!

After a lot of thinking, I've decided to try my hand at becoming a personal trainer. I'll leave the details on myself via the other sections of the forum, but this post is specifically for finding out some other ways in which I can work privately with clients.

At my 24 Hour Fitness, I often see people with clipboards training other members. They are obviously not your resident 24Hour PTs, but brought in from the outside. I know this because I'm on speaking terms with many people from the gym and they gladly identify these outside trainers as "my personal trainer". Apart from the days I see them train their clients, I never see these outside PTs at that specific gym.

How do these setups usually work? I've heard of PTs doing training at the client's home, but say I as a trainer don't have access to Bally's, but my client, who I got to know via referral, works out there. Does the client take responsibility for my one-time entry fee every single time?

While I plan to start out at a big chain, my ultimate goal is to train people privately, by going to their homes, or working out with them at their gyms (since I see this happening). I would ideally like to charge lower prices since I do have a day job as a software engineer and primarily want to get into this business to just help people get healthier, so I think being independent and free of the extra charges that gyms put on top of what they pay PTs is the way to go.

[portlandGymRat]

You will likely get Kicked out of what ever gym you are training your client at if you are not affiliated with said gym. If you have a membership and they suspect you of training clients in "their" gym they probably could suspend or revoke your membership.

Words of warning. I would look out for this cause you don't want any trouble at a place you frequent, know what I mean.