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What its like to really be a Personal Trainer 

1. Your schedule is never the same day to day or week to week. People quit who were permanent and it leaves a hole in your schedule. Your regulars are always trying to move their time around. Leaving and creating holes all in your daily schedule.
2. You really need to be able to handle uncomfortable situations well. For example having to ask clients repeatedly to pay, any and all same day cancellations. If you don't ask your clients for this your business will suffer greatly in the pockets.
3. You've really got to stay in shape year round, not saying in shape will also kill your business in the long run, you'll be known as the out of shape trainer. Plus the other trainers will make fun of you behind your back.
4. You'll learn referrals are the number one source of new clients, year after year find the richer white woman who does not work and you make her your project. Bring her body back from the grave and then ask, ask if she has any of her friends who need a trainer. At that point she's probably already gotten clients, women know women, this makes them the great source of more clients.
5. You got to be able to wear more than one hat, some people need a brother, a new father, mother, mentor, couch, gym buddy, and yet at the same time you have to give them their level workout. Some days you work them harder than other days.
6. You will need to be an incredibly self-motivated person to stay alive in this business full time. The more energy the better because thats what your giving them, energy. They will want lots of it.
7. You'll learn to always show up on time, cause trainers suck who don't show up on time. If you are late you better make it square with them.
8. You'll learn to weigh clients regularly, they must learn to watch the goal happening, that's part of the great adventure. The clients you weigh every week will lose more pounds than the clients that you don't weigh every week.
9. At a point you will get a rare chance to befriend some neat people that otherwise you would not, this is a cool one. My clients have been good to me at times you get to go on vacation with them or to their parties and other fun goodies.
10. Ya'll learn it takes  lot more of your time and energy, than you once thought. Because thats what you are giving them, time and energy.

Ten Tips for the Trainer from the Master

1. Avoid drug habits.
2. Avoid getting your ass kicked.
3. Learn to be a master at controlling your emotions.
4. Take a vacation from work but don't necessarily go out of town.
5. Schedule an extra martial arts lesson this week.
6. Don't ride motorcycles, they are death traps.
7. Get away from the wife or girlfriend once a week.
8. Be great at something: Archery, Shoeing a horse, laying brick, hot dog eater, professional model, hand surgeon, web designer, painter, dancer, card tricks, etc. but do something better than anyone you know grasshopper.
9. Exercise, get enough sleep, and eat right.
10. Wear make up.

10 Things Personal Trainers like to do in their free time

1. Tan
2. Workout with Weights
3. Cardio
4. Eat
5. Sleep
6. Make out with chicks
7. Listen to music
8. Make extra money
9. Talk to themselves while looking in the mirror
10. Dance

10 things to remember if you are going to get in to or stay in the game of personal training.

1. Never date the client - I repeat NEVER date the client. This is the mother of all mess ups, its closely related to not dating another employee where you work. Repeat NEVER date another employee or your clients - it never works out well.
2. Don't date another trainer's clients - wake up people.
3. Stay in shape.
4. Find a niche in the game.
5. Talk to your clients, get to know them, ask them about their wife's kids, jobs, hobbies, food intake, etc.
6. Try supplements and be able to give advice on them to your clients.
7. Get into some form of continuous movement: yoga, running, martial arts, training, biking, dancing at least 3 days a week.
8. Try to stay youthful with a smile and plenty of techniques to keep the session full.
9. Have a tan from time to time and show some skin, shorts are nice if you have good legs.
10. Take personal training lessons from another personal trainer, no joke, or train with the lead trainer of the gym, you want to work at.

11 Ways of Pulling out of the Beta Dumps

1. Stop smoking or dipping nicotine, it slows you down and you don't have time for that.
2. Start martial arts just start martial arts, you're welcome.
3. Take an acting class be able to act like someone other than yourself.
4. Listen to rap and techno its tribal and it gets the blood moving, it helps you push harder in exercise.
5. Get a personal trainer or a martial art teacher and keep walking through their door, they will help you.
6. Take vitamins and supplements and a little caffeine before some of your workouts for an extra kick.
7. Go for a walk in the wild, get in touch with nature once or twice a year.
8. Go tan and get 88 ounces of water a day to flush the disease out of your kidneys.
9. Take a sparring lesson and hit your sparring partner, touch the primal button!!!! Sweat - good for ya it is, and then go kick the bag with the radio on, you will fill baptized.
10. Find someone to talk to or something maybe get a pet if you can handle it.
11. Watch tough guy movies with Schwarzenegger, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson. Blood, guns, shotguns, cars, drugs, speed, women, hunting, beer, fights, the talk, martial arts - you need strong images for a strong mind.

15 Things I've learned in 12 years of Personal Training

1. Do not eat bread if you want to lose weight
2. Up the protein 4 to 5 meals to promote health, increase, strength and to be more athletic looking
3. Listen to people talk, they will tell you everything you need to know.
4. Get into your clients world's, find out their kids names, ages, husband's name, job, sister's age, that kind of thing.
5. Always show up
6. Always show up on time
7. Look the part and act the part, train, tan, shave, cardio, shower, smile, act, ask questions about their lives, diets, dreams, childhood, etc.
8. Every now and then give them more time than their average, they will notice and benefit.
9. Always get paid for your time as a personal trainer or martial arts teacher. Don't just give it away.,
10. Half hour sessions - don't care for them longer is better for losing weight and health up to an hour a day 5 times a week.
11. Find a mentor in your field and avoid his mistakes.
12. Personal training is a job of many hats, a coach, rep counter, friend, dietitian, big brother, workout partner, being a sound board for someone's thoughts, and financial business master, remember have fun and smile.
13. Your clients are, or should be, your number one source of new leads and clients.
14. I kind of hit this on #7 but for God sakes stay in shape. They will not look up to you or respect you much if you aren't in better shape than them.
15. Sometimes you get close to your clients but remember the mother of all personal trainer mistakes is this, drum roll please, If I've said it 200 times I've said it 2,000 times don't date or marry your client, other trainer's clients, or other trainers. I've said my peace. P.S. It will cost you money, that's why.