Fitness Trainers - Choose Your Entry Level Jobs Wisely

   Image is crucial for a Fitness Trainer!  Whether it is right or not, you are often judged by your professional demeanor. Curious and watchful eyes are sizing you up. How you present yourself in whatever fitness environment that you operate in is important. Your time spent working with a client or doing your own workout is also an opportunity for self-marketing.

   People notice if you are inattentive, lackadaisical, or impolite while plying your trade. 
Doing your own workout while dressed like a slob, reeking of body odor or dropping f-bombs, can reflect on your image. A successful Fitness Training colleague used to contract extra clients to me. He kept telling me to avoid parking my rusted bucket-of-bolts car at the very front of the fitness center. I initially thought that this was a petty thing to worry about. Now I realize how right he was. People may not perceive you as being successful if you drive around in a wreck. Fitness training can be an image focused business.

   There was a Fitness Trainer at a club where I used to work out. This club had a section for higher paying exclusive members.This exclusive section had extra amenities such a T.V. lounge, a steam room and free shaving cream, razors and skin lotions. This Fitness Trainer did not have a full slate of clients so he put in extra hours as an attendant in the exclusive member's section. He hoped that the extra personal contact with the higher tier members would boost his Fitness Training prospects.   He was industrious and put in an honest day of hard work. He tried to establish a rapport with these exclusive club members. The carry over effect was negligible. He was perceived as the towel boy or cleaner.
It did not enhance his image as a professional Fitness Trainer!
   There are professions in which you can work your way from the mail room to the upper echelons of the organization. Fitness Training may not be such a profession! Potential clients may not envision you as the person to lead them their new body if they see you doing other labor.
   If you have your own fitness studio and you do your own cleaning, do it during down time. Don't be cleaning toilets when the next client arrives.
   I am not an career snob. I have worked as a cleaner and as a weight room attendant. You do what you can to survive until you can establish a clientele. My advice is don't work these jobs at the same location  that you expect to ply your Fitness Training craft. You want to be perceived as an expert in Fitness Training, not a jack of all trades. People's impressions can be easily and unfairly swayed.

Honest work and I've done it too.
However it may not help your image as a Fitness Professional!

You want to be seen as a fitness
 professional. 
Always keep that in mind.

Until next time,...........keep fit!

Little Bobby Strong 










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